CS2112 Student Course Evaluation Questionnaires
Analysis of questionnaires
1994/5
56 students took the exam, 39 questionnaires completed (this ratio is
typical for most modules).
CS2112 average for
average all 2nd yr
CONTENT
Relevance 7.2 7.8 }0=abysmal
Integration 6.8 7.2 } . . .
Interest 6.8 6.6 }10=excellent
{0=far too easy
Difficulty 6.3 7.1 {5=just right
{10=impossible
PRESENTATION
Quality 8.0 7.7 }0=abysmal
Suitability 7.7 7.1 }10=excellent
In four categories CS2112 is better than average, but I still want to
improve it. The first two categories (relevance & integration) are low,
which I am not happy about, but perhaps that is inevitable in an optional
course with few pre-requisites and no obvious follow-ons.
1994/5 and 1995/6 compared
Here are the number of individual responses of each value to the 6
questions, from 1994/5 and from 1995/6. (A '.' represents zero. I have only
got the individual responses from the first 33 questionnaires from 1994/5.)
none 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 average
1994/5 - number of replies = 33
. . . . 1 . 7 2 7 12 3 1 7.1 relevance
. . . 1 . 1 3 7 14 5 2 . 6.6 integration
1 . . . 1 1 3 6 14 6 . 1 6.7 interest
. . . 1 1 . 7 10 8 5 1 . 6.2 difficulty
1 . . . . . . 2 12 10 6 2 7.8 quality
1 . . . . 1 1 3 8 13 6 . 7.5 suitability
1995/6 - number of replies = 42
. . . . 3 2 4 4 11 15 1 2 6.8 relevance
. . . 1 4 1 8 12 8 6 1 1 6.0 integration
. . . . 5 2 5 9 12 5 2 2 6.3 interest
1 . . . . 3 5 8 15 8 2 . 6.6 difficulty
. . . . . . 1 3 13 14 7 4 7.8 quality
. . . . . 2 2 6 8 17 6 1 7.4 suitability
It looks like the significant changes are that "integration" has gone down
and "difficulty" has gone up since last year.
Student Comments
These are all the comments made on the back of the evaluation forms (and in
answer to one student: yes, someone does read them!)
My responses are in italics. Please don't think I am dismissing any of
your comments; I just want to put my viewpoint so we have a better chance
of understanding each other.
comments from 1994/5
comments from 1995/6