Course Feedback Part 1

As I was mentioning in the last post, every Friday I will post an entry where I comment the feedback that I got from the participants to my QA course. The course ran for 1 month, 4 consecutive Saturdays, with 18 participants.

Participants were sent a feedback form and asked to return the form by email after the end of the course.

The feedback form included questions from 3 categories:
1. Quality of Instruction
2. Quality of the course materials and value of the course
3. A number of specific questions where participants expressed their opinions freely.

The form was completed using the following scale: from 1 to 5 with 1 being the lowest (not at all) and 5 being the highest (exceptional).

1. Quality of Instruction
This category included questions about the instructor’s level of knowledge, planning, organization and communication of the material, as well as the availability and willingness to help or answer questions.
The feedback was very positive for this category, participants marked Very good (scale 4) and Exceptional (scale 5).

2. Quality of the course materials and value of the course
Here participants were asked to mark effectiveness of the course materials, usefulness of the take-home materials, how much they’ve learned in this course and how they will apply the newly gained knowledge and practical skills in the future.
Lots of people marked Very good and Exceptional and a few marked Satisfactory (scale 3).


The participants to this course had different backgrounds, with the majority having education in Finances and Engineering and some of them already working as QAs/Bas.

The course was designed for those who didn’t have any QA knowledge and the material was presented as such.

Those who were working in the QA field already knew most of the testing concepts presented but they found out new stuff in the workshop/job search skills part of the course.
In the end it got balanced nicely, the discussions generated were great; QAs were sharing their experience and so everybody was happy.

Would you consider a career switch to software testing in the near future?

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