I was fortunate to participate in a 2010 workshop assessing what kinds of protocols should be developed to coordinate international responses when astronomers finally identify an object that will hit Earth.
A 2008 WHO technical report on Annex 2 (10 ) mentions a 2006 workshop assessing the decision instrument validity and finding a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 55% on the basis of 10 events.
Twenty investigators from Canada, the United States, and Europe attended the workshop "Assessing Endocrine-Related Endpoints within the First Years of Life" (30 April–1 May 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) and discussed their experiences in measuring endocrine-sensitive endpoints in the first years of life and made recommendations for future research.
To measure the effectiveness of the compassion-training workshop, we assessed the difference in mood and compassionate feelings reported before and after compassion training.
One hundred and fifteen oncology nurses participating in a communication skills training workshop were assessed at three different periods.
The role playing session, the personal response system and the stakeholder workshop were assessed as useful tools in forming such network, by increasing the awareness by different disciplines of other's positions.
Workshop participants' reactions to the workshops were assessed by the responses of faculty participants to 1) Likert-style participant surveys prepared by the PIs and administered before (August) and after (December) the series of monthly workshops (Table 2), and 2) surveys regarding individual workshops.
The metal composition (except for iron) of one raw surgical instrument (scissor), taken from one of the studied workshops, was assessed similarly by ICP-MS following acid solubilization of four different small pieces obtained from the instrument.
Because up to 5 months separated completion of the baseline survey and workshop attendance, intervention subjects repeated the baseline survey directly preceding the workshop to assess whether baseline results changed (e.g. due to secular trend or in response to being selected to attend the workshop).
The new report is a joint product of the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which sponsored a 2005 workshop to assess these changes.
The same self-administered questionnaire as in the current study was distributed immediately before and after the workshop to assess its effectiveness in improving knowledge and attitudes towards health research.
