Distance Braille SQA Course Evaluations
Number of Participants completing: 15
Number of Respondents: 15
How would you rate the following: Excellent = 5, Poor = 1
| Enhancement to your expertise | 4.71 |
| Content and supplementary material | 3.86 |
| Inclusion of raised Braille material | 4 |
To help/support/aid people (children) who use braille.
To support pupils I work with in learning braille.
I will use it daily in class. Creating braille materials and perhaps teaching.
I work with a blind child daily, so I will be able to adapt material for him.
To produce brailled resources for a VI student.
By confidently supporting a blind student in school.
For the purpose of teaching and learning as a QTVI.
Self study. Further studies in a couple of years time.
To support VI children in schools.
To teach contracted braille to primary school child.
In my work as a vision support teacher.
Better support to braille users in secondary school setting.
To teach a visually impaired pupil who is learning braille.
I will use the knowledge to hopefully support visual impaired children in the future.
During teaching sessions.
| Clarity of explanations | 3.93 |
| Quantity of practice material | 4 |
| Assessment feedback | 4.47 |
Pacing of stages |
4.20 |
Being able to read some braille.
Time given between stages to practice.
I just enjoyed learning it. I hope I passed the test, but I also enjoyed doing it, too.
Being able to support the children I work with.
The assessments showed that you had improved and gained knowledge.
It was easy to gauge one’s progress because of the frequent assessments. One could see the improvement.
The support from the course tutor.
The large number of transcription exercises. The requirement to use a Perkins brailler. The course is broken down into many stages so mistakes and misconceptions can be identified early.
I have very much enjoyed learning a new and important skill.
Being able to work at my own pace.
Tutor available to answer questions and detailed feedback.
Being able to gradually get better and better at supporting young people in school.
The helpful advice and support from the tutor.
I liked learning all the new stages.
Step by step teaching.
More practice for final assessment in the final format (only one given). Please note that this experience is nothing like achieving the stage assessments.
Inclusion of more examples and more practice materials which have corresponding braille/printed answers.
The materials were littered with mistakes, SEB etc.
The mock assessment did not fully reflect what was included in final assessment – i.e. italics, bold, underline.
The course material had a lot of errors.
More transcripts, less errors.
I felt timing was hard, especially for final exam.
I think there could be more reading materials in stages 10 and 11 when there are a lot of symbols.
Some of the braille transcriptions contain errors which are confusing.
Prompter feedback between stages.
More practice/examples of last chapters.
Length of exam time – 2.5 hours in order to check work.
I would have liked more printed braille in exercises to compare with the print to see if they were correct.
More examples (with braille).
A lot of mistakes (particularly noticeable after stage 7) in the course materials, including the updated version sent out.
Tutor very helpful and approachable.
Maybe scanning the assessments and annotating so feedback is clearer. The exercises at the back were often hard to find. Two folders would have been better, maybe.
The help and feedback has been wonderful from tutor.
I had a 6-month break due to my son’s health. I found the support excellent from tutor. However I found returning to study very hard.
The Appendix 1 (the revision sheets/tables) can include the dot 5, dot 4,5 lower contractions and final group signs.
Well structured and paced.
I felt the Mock Test should be a little more challenging. Perhaps include one more to practice with.
Materials were clear although some mistakes along the way, e.g. Appendix 1.
Tutor has always been lovely and supportive.
This course was delivered through distance learning - did you find this a good arrangement or would you have preferred a different mode of delivery? Please comment either way.
This was fine, but would occasionally or when needed liked to have met with the tutor in order to clarify, explain, confirm, or reassure anything with respect to the course.
Distance learning worked well, as my tutor always responded to any questions I had promptly.
It was okay. It has to be that way, I suppose.
Good way, as can work at own pace.
This was the first time I had ever done distance learning. I found it quite easy to do, as you are given the materials at the start of the course.
It was a good arrangement. I preferred this mode of delivery to online.
Mode of delivery was very good.
It is a good way to learn because it’s difficult to go to Edinburgh every week/month when I live in South England.
I found the distance learning method perfectly acceptable. However, it may be better to use online learning in future.
No, it worked well.
No, perfect as it was.
Yes, I found this a good arrangement, as I work fulltime and this suited my needs.
Fine.
| Quality of learning materials | 4.07 |
| Feedback and support from tutor | 4.43 |
| Overall timescale for course | 4.43 |
SSC Courses Brochure: 1
Course info/leaflet, SSC email: 1
Co-ordinator/Line Manager: 5
Colleague: 1
SSC Website: 1
Other: 1 (part of job requirement), 2 (VI Resource Base), 1 (QTVI)
Science/maths braille course.
Course on how to teach braille in the early years.
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