Urban Dreams Computer Training

In October, Urban Dreams provided basic computer training to over 125 parents and students who received a free computer through a cooperative arrangement with the Marcus Foster Institute and the Oakland Unified School District.  Below are the preliminary findings from those surveys.

Table 1 provides an overview of the participation rates by school, location and date of training from those participants who completed a Workshop Evaluation Form.

Table1: Parent Participation in Basic Computer Training by Location

School Name

Instructor

Date

Number of Participants

Valid Percent

Oakland Tech

Instructor 1

10/09

14

10.9

Oakland Tech

Instructor 2

10/10

10

7.8

Oakland Tech

Instructor 3

10/16

4

3.1

Oakland Tech

Instructor 4

10/17

20

15.5

Oakland High

Instructor 5

10/22

12

9.3

McClymonds

Instructor 6

10/26

12

9.3

Oakland Tech

Instructor 7

10/26

32

24.8

Oakland High

Instructor 8

10/29

25

19.4

Total

 

 

129

100.0

The evaluation form consists of two sections.  The first section contains four questions pertaining to the quality of training. Section 2 consists of one open-ended question.Table 2: Question One: I learned a lot from the workshop.                        N=129

Date of Training

10-09-02

10-10-02

10-16-02

10-17-02

10-22-02

10-26-02

10-26-02

10-29-02

Total

Agree

7

8

3

17

9

8

27

21

100

Kind of Agree

7

2

1

3

2

4

4

4

27

Kind of Disagree

0

0

0

0

1

0

1

0

2

Disagree

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

14

10

4

20

12

12

32

25

129

Table 3: Question Two: The workshop activities were valuable.                        N=129

Date of Training

10-09-02

10-10-02

10-16-02

10-17-02

10-22-02

10-26-02

10-26-02

10-29-02

Total

Agree

10

10

4

18

4

10

27

20

103

Kind of Agree

4

0

0

2

7

2

4

5

24

Kind of Disagree

0

0

0

0

1

0

1

0

2

Disagree

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

14

10

4

20

12

12

32

25

129

Table 4: Question Three: The instructor did a good job of presenting the information.                                                                N=129

Date of Training

10-09-02

10-10-02

10-16-02

10-17-02

10-22-02

10-26-02

10-26-02

10-29-02

Total

Agree

11

10

4

19

7

10

29

24

114

Kind of Agree

1

0

0

1

5

0

3

1

11

Kind of Disagree

1

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

3

Disagree<