Coaching Survey (Revised)

NSF's Convergence Accelerator Coaching Evaluation (Revised)
Participation in this survey helps the Convergence Accelerator adapt to your team's
needs and evaluate our progress as a program. Your responses will be given to
individuals in the program to help them improve their coaching, but no answer will
be attributed to you personally without your prior consent. Your participation and
responses will not influence any current or future funding award decisions made by
NSF. This survey is entirely voluntary.
Thank you! We value your time and appreciate your participation!
OMB Control No. 3145-XXXX
1. What is your name? (OPTIONAL)

2. What team are you part of? Ex: E123 (OPTIONAL)

3. Overall, how helpful was the coaching and feedback you received from the Convergence
Accelerator and its staff?
Extremely helpful
Very helpful
Somewhat helpful
Not so helpful
Not at all helpful

4. Overall, what was most helpful about your interactions with the Convergence Accelerator
coaches and staff, and why?

5. Overall, what did you want the Convergence Accelerator team to do, that they did not do?
(This could be the amount of time they spent with you, the kind of feedback they gave, the
quality of their feedback, the content of their expertise, the connections they helped you
make ...)

6. Is there any other advice you would like to give us about how to improve the overall
coaching and feedback experience?

In the next section, we will ask you to choose up to three (3) people, either coaches or other faculty, who were most
important to your experience in the Convergence Accelerator. We would like to know about your time with each of
them.

NSF's Convergence Accelerator Coaching Evaluation (Revised)
Person 1
7. What is this person's name?

8. How often did you get this person's feedback or guidance?
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Every 2-5 months
Every 6-12 months
Never
Other (please specify)

9. Ideally, how often would you LIKE to have gotten this person's feedback or guidance?
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Every 2-5 months
Every 6-12 months
Never
Other (please specify)

10. Would you agree you established a strong relationship with this person?
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree

11. Would you agree this person helped you achieve your goals for the project?
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree

12. Please describe what you found most valuable about working with this person.

13. Did you ever have difficulties working with this person?
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree

14. What would have made working with this person easier?

NSF's Convergence Accelerator Coaching Evaluation (Revised)
Person 2 (optional, if there was only one person you interacted with substantially)
15. What is this person's name?

16. How often did you get this person's feedback or guidance?
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Every 2-5 months
Every 6-12 months
Never
Other (please specify)

17. Ideally, how often would you LIKE to have gotten this person's feedback or guidance?
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Every 2-5 months
Every 6-12 months
Never
Other (please specify)

18. Would you agree you established a strong relationship with this person?
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree

19. Would you agree this person helped you achieve your goals for the project?
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree

20. Please describe what you found most valuable about working with this person.

21. Did you ever have difficulties working with this person?
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree

22. What would have made working with this person easier?

NSF's Convergence Accelerator Coaching Evaluation (Revised)
Person 3 (optional, if there were only one or two people you interacted with
substantially)
23. What is this person's name?

24. How often did you get this person's feedback or guidance?
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Every 2-5 months
Every 6-12 months
Never
Other (please specify)

25. Ideally, how often would you LIKE to have gotten this person's feedback or guidance?
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Every 2-5 months
Every 6-12 months
Never
Other (please specify)

26. Would you agree you established a strong relationship with this person?
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree

27. Would you agree this person helped you achieve your goals for the project?
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree

28. Please describe what you found most valuable about working with this person.

29. Did you ever have difficulties working with this person?
Strongly agree
Somewhat agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree

30. What would have made working with this person easier?