Introduction
At The Carpentries we are “Always Learning”. We embody the growth mindset we teach using data and community feedback to measure our impact and foster continuous improvement.
Annual Reports
Our annual reports serve as a high-level summary of The Carpentries work, providing a succinct introduction to our organisation for potential funders, new members, and others joining our community. These reports also serve as a rich resource for our existing community members, showcasing the work and growth of our community and providing a summary of the previous year, and what we plan to achieve in the coming year. Our annual reports also include a short overview of our finances for the year. More information about our finances is avaible on our Financials page.
- Annual Report, 2021 (pdf)
- Annual Report, 2020 (pdf)
- Annual Report, 2020 (HTML))
- Annual Report, 2019 (pdf)
- Annual Report, 2021 (pdf)
- Annual Report, 2020 (pdf)
Referencing Annual Reports
Our annual reports are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Artistic images and photographs are licensed to the image creators as described in each report.
Other Impact Reports
- Analysis of The Carpentries Long-Term Impact Survey (2018-07-17)
- Carpentries’ Long-Term Feedback Survey Report(#)
- Analysis of Software and Data Carpentry’s Pre- and Post-Workshop Surveys - Full report (2018-07-17)
- Analysis of Software Carpentry’s Post-Workshop Surveys (2017-07-01)
- Post-Workshop Survey Report(#)
- Analysis of The Carpentries Long-Term Surveys (April 2020) This report is also available as a webpage via Github (View the report as a webpage).
Assessment
We value a culture of assessment, and consistently assess learner outcomes from workshops (short term), programmatic efforts (instructor training), and the long-term impact we have on learners.
Measuring the Impact of Our Workshops and Trainings
We conduct pre- and post- workshop surveys for Carpentries Workshops & Instructor Training Events. Use the links below to preview the questions currently included in our surveys:
The Carpentries Workshop Surveys
The Carpentries Instructor Training Surveys
Measuring the Long-Term Impact of Our Workshops
We launched a Long-Term Impact Survey in 2017 to evaluate the long term impact our workshops are having on Carpentries Learners. Data is collected every six months.Use the below to preview the questions currently included in our long-term survey:
Data
We openly share our data, source code and analyses used in our assessment practices in our Assessment Repository.