TheOtherDave comments on Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28 - Less Wrong
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We've actually noticed in our weekly sessions that our nice official-looking yes-we're-gathering-data rate-from-1-to-5 feedback forms don't seem to correlate with how much people seem to visibly enjoy the session - mostly the ratings seem pretty constant. (We're still collecting useful data off the verbal comments.) If anyone knows a standard fix for this then PLEASE LET US KNOW.
Back when I did training for a living, my experience was that those forms were primarily useful for keeping my boss happy. The one question that was sometimes useful was asking people what they enjoyed most and least about the class, and what they would change about it. Even more useful was asking that question of people to their faces. Most useful was testing to determine what they had actually learned, if anything.