Sorry for being so late on this but I finally got around to making pie-charts of your responses to the second feedback form. The results are below the fold. (The text part below is typeset with LaTeX2WP.)
- Multiple-choice feedback questions.
- The pace of the lectures.
- Too fast: I am not getting anything in class.
- A bit fast: I get most of the stuff in class.
- Perfect: I follow everything just fine.
- A bit slow: Sometimes I wish the instructor would speed it up.
- Too slow: I need to occupy myself in class with tic-tac-toe.
- Other (Specify):
- The use of examples in the lectures.
- Not enough of them are used in class.
- Right about the perfect number of them are used in class.
- The examples are too simple to be useful.
- Why bother with examples ?
- Other (Specify):
- Intuition for proofs.
- I got no intuition for the proofs.
- Sometimes I got the intuition.
- I got the intuition most of the times.
- All the proofs were intuitive.
- Why do you need intuition when you have the proof?
- Other (Specify):
- Questions from students.
- Students are not encouraged to ask questions.
- Students are encouraged to ask question but not given enough time to think of one.
- It’s all perfect.
- The material is very easy: who needs to ask questions ?
- Other (Specify):
- Questions asked in the class.
- The instructor asks irrelevant questions.
- The questions asked are too hard.
- The questions are fine but I need more time to think before answering them.
- It’s perfect.
- The questions are so easy, I do not bother answering them.
- Other (Specify):
- Neighbor talk time.
- I hate my neighbor.
- It is sometimes useful.
- It gives me time to digest what is on the board.
- It’s perfect!
- Other (Specify):
- The instructor.
- Mumbles a lot and writes too small.
- Speaks clearly but writes too small.
- Mumbles a lot but writes fine.
- Mumbles a bit and sometimes writes too small.
- He’s perfect.
- Other (Specify):
- The TA.
- He is very helpful and available.
- He has not always been available.
- He has not always been helpful.
- I have not felt the need to talk to him.
- Other (Specify):
- The recitations.
- My recitation is too early in the morning.
- They have been helpful in clarifying homework questions.
- They have been helpful in clarifying lecture questions.
- It’s been perfect.
- Other(Specify):
- The first homework.
- What, there is a homework in this course?
- I have not looked at it at all.
- I glanced through the homework.
- I thought about some of the problems.
- I am done!
- Other (Specify):
- If you have looked at the homework, what do you think about the homework?
- It’s very hard!
- There is a nice gradation of hardness of the problems.
- It’s all too easy!
- Other (Specify):
- If you have started working on the homework, are you collaborating?
- What, we can collaborate on homeworks?
- I collaborated on one problem.
- I am collaborating on the two problems it is allowed.
- Meh, I am going solo.
- Other (Specify):
- The bigger picture.
- I have no idea what are the big goals we are after.
- I have them in my mind when I come into class but get lost in the proof details.
- I have the bigger goals in my mind sometimes.
- Yes, they are imprinted in my brain.
- Other (Specify):
- The course blog.
- I do not find it useful at all.
- A course newsgroup would have been just as fine/better.
- I do see some benefits.
- It’s a great idea.
- Other (Specify):
- Expectations for Blog posts.
- It is not clear at all what is expected of us.
- I have a hazy idea of what we are supposed to do.
- I’ll figure it out from the folks who went before me.
- Yep, I know what I am doing.
- Other (Specify):
- The pace of the lectures.
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