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Positive evaluation for ODTUG 2007 presentation

10 July 2007 at 12:13 CEST | In Forms, ODTUG 2007, Oracle, Other, Personal, Web components |

I just got the evaluations for my presentation at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2007 on integrating Oracle Forms into Oracle ADF Faces. I must say that I’m pleasantly surprised. Two thirds of the audience rated the session 5 out of 5, and one third 4 out of 5. Not a bad score. I especially appreciate the comments people fill in on the evaluation form. Sometimes this gives a much better indication of how people felt. For me, all the comments are positive although one attendant noted it might bee too technical for some developers. This was also my fear, but as it turns out 100% indicated the technical level was spot on.

Again, I’m very happy and proud of this positive evaluation for my first ever presentation at an international conference. This makes ODTUG 2007 a memorable moment for me: my first ever paper won the Editor’s Choice Award and I got a very positive evaluation for my presentation.

The detailed results are below:

Overall Session Rating

	1 (low)	2	3	4	5 (high)	avg
Overall Session Rating	-	-	-	33.3%	66.7%	4.67

Evaluations

	1 (low)	2	3	4	5 (high)	avg
Presentation Skills
Ability to communicate	-	-	-	32.1%	67.9%	4.68
Use of visual aids	-	-	-	32.1%	67.9%	4.68
Readability of visual aids	-	-	-	25.0%	75.0%	4.75
Organization of material	-	-	-	28.6%	71.4%	4.71
Attentiveness to questions and comments	-	-	-	24.0%	76.0%	4.76
Content
Knowledge of material	-	-	-	10.7%	89.3%	4.89
Newness of material	-	-	-	25.0%	75.0%	4.75
Technical relevance of material	-	-	-	17.9%	82.1%	4.82
Information has value for my work	-	-	3.6%	39.3%	57.1%	4.54
Content matched written description	-	-	-	32.1%	67.9%	4.68
Information was technical in nature, not a ’sales pitch’	-	-	-	17.9%	82.1%	4.82

Technical Level

	Too Much	Appropriate	Too Little
Technical Level	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%

Comments

• What were the strengths of this presentation?
• Documentation
• Innovative and ver applicatble to current development.
• Possible alternative for keeping forms around.
• Tech level and code snippets
• Amazing!
• Great technical how-to content
• Very detailed, clear, held together well
• Great job!
• Very practical for my needs.
• Useful, novel material
• What were the weaknesses of this presentation?
• Probably too tehnical for some developers
• What recommendations do you have for improvement of this presentation?
• Thank you! Great stuff

Update 11 july 2007: I asked ODTUG if they were planning on publishing the average of all sessions combined. This could give an idea of how a session scored compared to the other sessions. ODTUG is not publishing these results, but the could tell me that scores below 4.0 need work, between 4.0 and 4.3 are very good, and above 4.3 are excellent. So, with an overall score of 4.67, I can be satisfied.