This survey provides the opportunity for you to give feedback on the course. It will be used to help improve future offerings of CS 63. Your responses may also be shared with other Swarthmore faculty.
Feel free to type or handwrite your responses, and attach additional pages if necessary. Although I will not read these surveys until after I have submitted the final grades, please do not put your name on the survey.
Please submit the survey during the final exam period or place it in
my mailbox in the CS main office by
1.) Please check the appropriate box to indicate your assessment of each of the following:
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Clarity of the professor’s
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Accessibility of the
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Ability of the professor to
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Overall teaching
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2.) Please check the appropriate box to indicate whether you agree with the following statements:
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Agree |
Neutral |
Disagree |
Strongly Disagree |
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The lecture material is
clear and understandable. |
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The lecture material is
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The textbook is clear and
understandable. |
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The lectures/in-class
activities contributed greatly to what I learned in this course. |
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The homeworks/project
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Overall, I learned a lot in
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I feel that I have a good
understanding of the concepts we covered in this course. |
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The amount of work assigned
in this course was manageable. |
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3.) Please circle the appropriate answer for each of the following:
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The pace of the course
was… |
Much too slow |
A bit too slow |
About right |
A bit too fast |
Much too fast |
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The amount of reading was... |
Much too light |
A bit too light |
About right |
A bit too heavy |
Much too heavy |
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The amount of homework was... |
Much too light |
A bit too light |
About right |
A bit too heavy |
Much too heavy |
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The work for the project
was… |
Much too light |
A bit too light |
About right |
A bit too heavy |
Much too heavy |
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The overall amount of
work was… |
Much too light |
A bit too light |
About right |
A bit too heavy |
Much too heavy |
4.) How often did you do the assigned reading? How helpful was the assigned reading in understanding the material presented in the class?
5.) Please comment on the homework assignments done in the class. Did they help to make the ideas concrete? Did you have adequate time to complete them? Were any of them particularly helpful (or not helpful) to understanding the material? Any suggestions for improvements?
6.) Was the format of the course (e.g. lectures combined with some hands-on exercises) appropriate to its content? Would you have preferred more lecture? Would you have preferred more hands-on work?
7.) Please comment in-depth
on the project. What is your opinion of
the project? What did you think of the
end-of-semester tournament? Do you have
any suggestions for the next time this project is used? These could be improvements to the project,
new features for the simulator, things that worked well, things that didn't
work well, etc.
8.) What was the best part of the course and why?
9.) What personal qualities did this professor have that aided his/her teaching?
10.) How could the professor improve his/her teaching?
11.) How did this course contribute to your intellectual growth? Were you exposed to new concepts or new perspectives?
12.) Would you recommend this course to another student? Explain.