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teaser: "A discussion of learner outcomes more than six months after attending a Carpentries workshop."
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What concrete changes are people implementing in their computational research practices as a result of completing a Carpentries workshop?

Our [long term survey report](https://carpentries.github.io/assessment/carpentries/long-term-survey/report.html) shows that two-day Software or Data Carpentry workshops are effective for increasing skills and confidence, and the adoption of reproducible research perspectives. We see gains in our survey measures for learners’ motivation to continue their learning, change in reproducible research behavior, and frequency of use of computational skills and tools. We find this very exciting, especially since a recent [general survey](http://www.pnas.org/content/114/37/9854) of bootcamps and short-format trainings reports no measurable impact on skill development or research productivity.

Software and Data Carpentry have taught workshops to over 27,000 learners in 35 countries around the world. Post-workshop survey reports for [Software Carpentry](https://carpentries.github.io/assessment/software-carpentry/postreport.html) and [Data Carpentry](https://carpentries.github.io/assessment/data-carpentry/postworkshop/report.html) have consistently shown that people like the workshops, that they know more about importing data sets into R and Python to work with data, write functions, and initialize repositories in git, and that they think they can apply skills immediately to their work. 

Our focus has always been on long term change, including:

+ Improving learners’ confidence and motivation to use computational tools,<commit_msg>Fix header<commit_after>---
layout: post
subheadline: "Assessment"
title: "Our long-term assessment results are in!"
teaser: "A discussion of learner outcomes more than six months after attending a Carpentries workshop."
categories:
   - blog
comments: true
show_meta: true
authors: ["<NAME>", "<NAME>", "<NAME>", "<NAME>"]
---
What concrete changes are people implementing in their computational research practices as a result of completing a Carpentries workshop?

Our [long term survey report](https://carpentries.github.io/assessment/carpentries/long-term-survey/report.html) shows that two-day Software or Data Carpentry workshops are effective for increasing skills and confidence, and the adoption of reproducible research perspectives. We see gains in our survey measures for learners’ motivation to continue their learning, change in reproducible research behavior, and frequency of use of computational skills and tools. We find this very exciting, especially since a recent [general survey](http://www.pnas.org/content/114/37/9854) of bootcamps and short-format trainings reports no measurable impact on skill development or research productivity.

Software and Data Carpentry have taught workshops to over 27,000 learners in 35 countries around the world. Post-workshop survey reports for [Software Carpentry](https://carpentries.github.io/assessment/software-carpentry/postreport.html) and [Data Carpentry](https://carpentries.github.io/assessment/data-carpentry/postworkshop/report.html) have consistently shown that people like the workshops, that they know more about importing data sets into R and Python to work with data, write functions, and initialize repositories in git, and that they think they can apply skills immediately to their work. 

Our focus has always been on long term change, including:

+ Improving learners’ confidence and motivation to use computational tools,
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