Formative Evaluator's Report: Bridging the Gap, Phase II (Appendices)

Interaction with the College

  • The Curriculum development process was useful to them because they looked at it all from a different perspective to see how everything comes together in the business.
  • The curriculum design specialist from the College was a real asset and quickly came up to scratch. He likes that everything is planned. Students know what is on the go in advance. There is a lot of care and detail. They are really productive They are more productive now than they were in the beginning.
  • The college is doing exactly what it should be doing. The training is well–suited to the workplace.
  • The skill set design is a positive thing.

Interaction with the Academic Instructor

  • We had a little bit of a scenario with the academic instructor. The collective agreement was too restrictive and they stuck to it. For the same money, we could have gotten similar skills that would have worked more with the project.
  • Overzealous if anything – he is great.
  • Change the working hours of the Academic Instructor.
  • Excellent. He checks in to see if everything is OK and they will work together on some future curriculum.
  • The Academic Instructor was great. They did a lot of work and had to pick up from the Instructor who left. Too bad we never had [the second instructor] in the beginning. He was a bit nervous at first.
  • The Academic Instructor was excellent. Very experienced in teaching adults and understood adult experiences. She was fantastic.