Four Workshops
 

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This workshop targets the skills needed to assess health state as perceived by the client.  Participants learn to evaluate and select tests suitable for their program or patients

 

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This hands-on workshop will equip participants with the ability to form valid questionnaires for use in their own workplace.

Validity is determined by three factors:

1. the precise nature of the issues that the researcher aims to assess with the questionnaire;
2. the exact population to which the questionnaire is to be applied;
3. the accuracy with which the questionnaire (and the method of scoring) assesses the issues for the intended population.

Creating valid questionnaires is not difficult, as long as certain basic steps are followed. This workshop aims to provide this information.

Participants are encouraged to bring current questionnaires to be developed or improved during the workshop.

'No amount of statistical manipulation after the fact can compensate for poorly chosen questions; those that are badly worded, ambiguous, irrelevant, or even worse not present' (Streiner and Norman, 1995).

 

Sydney, one-day, Friday 24 June 2011, 'click' to download flyer and application form

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This workshop examines these changes and identifies how programs and services are best evaluated or developed.
 

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In Paris in 1834 there lived a 20 year old man named Evariste Galois who was both a gifted mathematician and a passionate participant in republican politics (for which he was briefly imprisoned). In that year he fell in love and was challenged to a duel, ostensibly over a young woman. Aware his rival was a crack shot and that his life may soon end he worked through the night to record the basics of Group Theory, which describes the symmetries of the laws of physics and points the way to the "possible" physical theories. The next day a pistol shot through his stomach lead to peritonitis and he died within 24 hours.

The relatively short life of Evariste Galois embodies the paradox of humans. His life represented a search for truth, unbridled and seemingly erratic emotion, and a genius for explanation that added to the store of knowledge for all that follow.

In fact the scientific evidence is that emotion is essential for good decision making, but only when it is guided by the right stories. This workshop sets out this and other insights and identifies the implications for making better decisions.

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