adds precourse survey

Author: ChasNelson1990

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+# Pre-course Survey
+
+## Consent
+
+### Introduction
+
+In order to tailor the day's activities to you and other participants we want to ask you a few questions about your role, skills and approach related to this workshop. There will also be a post-course survey and the two surveys together will help us understand the effectiveness of this course. The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete.
+
+### Confidentiality
+Your responses will be recorded anonymously. You will be asked to create a unique and confidential identifier, which will be used to compare results with the post-course survey.
+
+After both surveys have been analyses, individual responses will be deleted and only summary statistics will be kept.
+
+### Consent
+You are not required to take this survey to participate in our workshop. You may quit anytime.
+
+If you have any questions please email chas.nelson@glasgow.ac.uk.
+
+1. Do you concent to taking this survey?*
+
+-() Yes
+
+2. Are you age 18 or above?*
+
+-() Yes
+-() No
+
+3. Please enter a unique anonymous identifier as follows: Number of siblings (number) + First two letters of the city you were born (lowercase) + First two letters of your current street. For example, if I have zero siblings, was born in London and now live on Winston Street, my identifier would be `0lowi`. This identifier is used to relate your pre- and post-course surveys and will be kept confidential.*
+
+4. What is your activity sector? Please select the closest.
+
+-[] Academic Research
+-[] Business
+-[] Commerce
+-[] Industry
+-[] Public Sector
+-[] Third Sector
+-[] Teaching (primary)
+-[] Teaching (secondary)
+-[] Teaching (HE)
+-[] Teaching (FE)
+-[] Not in employment
+
+5. What operating system is on the computer you're bringing to the workshop?*
+
+-() Windows
+-() Apple/MacOS
+-() Linux
+-() Not Sure
+
+6. During the course you will have an opportunity to bring and process your own data. You are not required to bring data (we have example data you can use) but it helps us to know if you intend to bring your own data. Please give us a brief summary of your data. Please explicitly state what you'd like to do with your data during the course (we may not be able to achieve everything).*
+
+7. How often do you use the following tools?
+
+* Statistical tools with a GUI, e.g. SPSS, etc.
+* Programming languages, e.g. Python, R, etc.
+* Databases, e.g. SQL, Access, etc.
+* Version control software, e.g. Git, etc.
+* A command shell/terminal
+
+8. Why are you attending this workshop? Check all that apply.
+
+-[] To learn new skills.
+-[] To refresh or review my skills.
+-[] To learn skills that I can apply to my current work.
+-[] To learn skills that will help me get a job or a promotion.
+-[] As a requirement for my current source or current position.
+-[] Other (please specify)
+
+9. Please rate your level of agreement with the following statements:
+
+* Having access to the original, raw data is important to be able to repeat an analysis.
+* I can write a small program/script/macro to solve a problem in my own work.
+* I know how to search for answers to my technical questions online.
+* While working on a programming project, if I get stuck, I can find ways of overcoming the problem.
+* I am confident in my ability to make use of programming software to work with data.
+* Using a programming language (like Python) can make my analyses easier to reproduce.
+* Using a programming language (like Python) can make me more efficient at working with data.
+
+10. Please share what you most hope to learn from attending this workshop.