Oakland Unified School District
Parent and Community
2002-2003
Two
major components of the Urban Dreams project are parent and community
involvement and access to technology. The
parent and community involvement component consists of ongoing parent technology
trainings at each of the local high schools and middle schools, Take-Home
Computer program and linkages to community partners.
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Urban
Dreams provided basic computer training for parents during the 2002-2003 school
year (Objective 3.1). The Marcus
Foster Institute provided the trainings through a subcontract with the school
district. The technology trainings
were mandatory for parents prior to their participation in the Take-Home
Computer program. Almost 600
parents participated in the trainings during the 2002-2003 academic year. The trainings were designed to provide parents with basic
computer concepts and skills through hands-on use of computers.
To
review in the effectiveness of the workshops, trainers developed and
administered a summative evaluation form that elicited participant feedback on
the trainings themselves. The
evaluations were collected at the end of each workshop.
The parents were asked to rate four statements about the workshops from
agree, kind of agree, kind of disagree, and disagree. There was also an open-ended question that asked: Do you have
any other comments or ideas on how to improve the workshop?
The assessment was made available in Spanish.
An analysis of individual respondents revealed that a minimum of 590
parents had taken the assessments and responded to all four statements.
The results of statement one, I learned a lot from this workshop,
indicate that 78.3% agree and 17.1% strongly agree.
Only 4.6% of the parents kind of disagree or disagree that they learned a
lot from the workshop. While a great majority learned a lot from the workshop, some
parents commented that they already were familiar with basic computer skills.
Statement
two articulated, “The workshop activities were valuable.”
Almost 82% (81.7) agreed and 16.6% strongly agreed that the workshop
activities were valuable. A mere 1.7% of 590 respondents kind of disagreed or
disagreed. Eighty-nine point three
percent indicated that they agreed “the instructor did a good job of
presenting the information.” Again,
only 1.7% of the parents either kind of disagreed or disagreed that the
instructor did a good job at the workshops.
The last statement, as a result of attending the workshop I feel that I
can operate and maintain a computer, shows that 87.6 either agreed of kind of
agreed. Only 2.4% kind of disagreed
or disagreed with the statement.
The median response was “agree” indicating that the vast majority of
participants thought that the trainings were of the highest quality.
On average over 82% of the participants gave each quality indicator the
highest rating. The following
tables give a detailed account of each of the four statements sub-divided by the
date of training, training site, and workshop instructor.
A sampling of parent comments to the open-ended question follows the
tables. A copy of the entire report
is available in the attachments.
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Date
of training |
Training
Site |
Workshop
Instructor |
Agree |
Kind
of Agree |
Kind
of Disagree |
Disagree |
Total |
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10/09/02 |
Oakland Tech HS |
7 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
14 | |
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10/10/02 |
Oakland Tech HS |
8 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
|
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10/16/02 |
Oakland Tech HS |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
|
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10/17/02 |
Oakland Tech HS |
17 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
20 |
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10/21/02 |
Life Academy |
5 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
|
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10/22/02 |
Oakland HS |
9 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
12 |
|
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10/22/02 |
Life Academy |
8 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
11 |
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10/26/02 |
McClymonds HS |
8 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
|
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10/26/02 |
Oakland Tech HS |
27 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
32 |
|
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10/29/02 |
Oakland HS |
21 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
25 |
|
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10/30/02 |
McClymonds HS |
12 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
15 |
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11/16/02 |
Castlemont HS |
17 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
19 |
|
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11/16/02 |
Ralph Bunche MS |
10 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
12 |
|
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11/21/02 |
Castlemont HS |
20 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
22 |
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12/03/02 |
Oakland HS |
8 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
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12/05/02 |
Castlemont HS |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
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12/05/02 |
Oakland HS |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
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02/26/03 |
Lowell MS |
12 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
13 |
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03/01/03 |
Lowell MS |
8 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
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03/08/03 |
Castlemont HS |
12 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
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03/08/03 |
Roosevelt MS |
28 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
31 |
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03/12/03 |
Oakland Tech HS |
11 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
17 |
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