From: Fred Rodgers and Associates

Date: May 24, 2001

To: Whom it may concern

Re: Evaluation of Todd Denny Workshop Questionnaires

We undertook an independent audit of the evaluation questionnaires administered at seven workshops conducted by Todd Denny in 2000 and 2001. We found a pattern of high evaluative ratings by the workshop attendees who returned the forms. The high ratings were sustained without notable exception over seven data sets.

• 41 Student-athletes in a violence prevention workshop, March 2001, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA
• 16 Experts in sexual assault prevention programs, Washington State Coalition, May, 2000, Wenatchee, Washington
• 34 K-12th Grade teachers attending a "School Violence" teacher training session, January, 2001, Tacoma, WA
• 19 K-12th Grade teachers attending the Washington State Prevention Summit, October, 2000, Yakama, WA
• 6 college personnel, who participated in a "Sexual Aggression 101" Workshop, November, 2000, Rock Springs, Wyoming
• 63 undergraduate students in a "Sexual Aggression 101" Workshop at the Baccus and Gamma Conference , November, 2000, St. Louis, Missouri
• 25 attendees at the "Male Violence Prevention Workshop at the Baccus and Gamma Conference , November, 2000, St. Louis, Missouri

Our findings indicate a consistent and uniformly high evaluation of the workshop experience by the participants. On a Likert scale of 1-5, [with five as the highest rating], Todd Denny's average ratings ranged from 4.3 to 4.8.

College personnel, classroom teachers, professional conference attendees, experts in the field of male aggression and student-athletes awarded equally high ratings to their workshop experiences.

There were no significant differences in the ratings awarded by females when compared to their male counterparts. There were no significant differences in the participant's ratings of the content, presentation, resources and total merit of their workshop experience. All were rated equally highly.

We performed a stringent test by reexamining the questionnaires after excluding all respondents who awarded only the highest ratings to their experiences, [to control for the contribution of indiscriminately high raters to the total groups' averages]. The total group's mean ratings were 4.5 [including the high raters] and the residual group's mean ratings were 4.3 [on a scale of 5]. The difference is neither statistically [.05] nor practically significant. Again, we found participants to view Todd Denny's workshops to be of high merit.

Voluntary comments, written on the questionnaires, corroborated our general conclusions. Ninety-one percent of the respondents said they would recommend these workshops to their colleagues and to professional organizations for sponsorship in the future. Respondents wrote in 194 gratuitous comments of high praise on their questionnaires.

Our summary judgment is that Todd Denny's workshops are consistently perceived to be meritorious by the seven groups of clients represented by these samples. Suggestions for program improvement were offered by 9% of the respondents. We found no contraindications to the pattern of high evaluations in our audit.

FAR and Associates
June 15, 2001
Champaign, Illinois