DEF Workshop Evaluations

Following each of our courses and workshops, DEF asks teachers to evaluate their experiences, the skills they feel they have gained, and their interest in teaching decision skills. These evaluations indicate that DEF's professional development courses (1) improve teachers' decision-making knowledge and skills, (2) motivate teachers to incorporate the materials into their existing programs, and (3) help prepare them to teach the materials to students.

Educators and administrators also tell us that they are energized to use their new decision-making skills in their personal as well as their professional lives, especially as part of their schoolwide decision processes (e.g., curriculum mapping, policies on AP courses).

Additional key measures of the effectiveness of DEF programs include teacher and administrator referrals which occur as a result of our programs, growing attendance at our public courses (including our Stanford program), increasing demand for DEF services and products, and evidence of student achievement and positive behavioral changes.