Sunday, July 17, 2005

T minus 24 hours and counting

In just less than 24 hours, we well be at the College de Professeurs Reunis setting up to welcome and register the 56 professors that are coming for training. We have the group almost balanced into two groups: math/science and social science/language. I think we're up to five women now, which could very well be 80% of all the women secondary schools in Jeremie. There are still maybe 15 professors who have not completed my pre-evaluation questionnaires (eek!), but I hope to be able to get them to do them as quickly as possible while everyone is setting up and signing in. I'm trying to decide how feasible it is to try to get everyone else to fill in the questions they skipped on the first round, and what potential ramifications that could have on the quantity, bias, and general quality of my data for that.

I'm really curious to see how everything turns out. For all the apparent chaos, Joy seems to feel confident that many more things are under control than for other programs in previous years, and I find her optimism in this quite comforting.

1 Comments:

At 3:32 PM, Anonymous Dad said...

The work sounds exciting, Angeli. Gaps between theory and practice can happen in any culture. I hope you're able to find ways to motivate the professors to follow through with implementation after the training and assessment are complete.

As you are aware, it is a good idea to get preliminary baseline data on as many participants as possible to increase the validity of your assessment of changes associated with the training intervention.

We hope and pray it all works out well. Emily is packing quite a punch and it's fortunate that it moved away from Haiti. We love you. God bless you and your efforts.

Have a great day!
Dad and Mom

 

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