Responses
- What are the 1 or 2 specific things the instructor does that help you learn in this course?
Explanation of Material
- Tries to answer our questions with real life examples
- Goes over each chapter very specifically and carefully
- Lets us ask many questions about the guides so we have the correct answers in our notes
- Explains things at good pace and is very understanding
- If we don’t understand she takes time to really explain it. She is willing to help you get it. She really goes over study guides.
- Explain problems thoroughly
- Explains thoroughly
- She takes time to explain and makes us feel comfortable to ask questions.
- Goes over things in great detail
- Makes sure we understand problems by going over them slowly over and over
- Takes the time to explain things
- Answers all the questions that any student asks
- when we don’t understand, she takes time to re-explain the concept
- She really knows what she is talking about and is able to explain concepts from the book
- Goes over stuff that people don’t understand
- Before moving on. She makes sure that everyone understands the subject at hand
Study Guides
- The use of study guides to help me understand and locate the key points that will most likely be on the tests
- Study guides
- Practice problems and study guides
Group work
- Allows us to work in groups and help each other
- Lets us work in groups
- She goes over the study guides as a group discussion and relates it to our everyday life
- When we ask to do things like work in groups, she understands
General
- The use of text books during exams
- Questions are really good and reasonable, but are we analyzing regardless of topics.
- She is doing a great job
- Good relationship with students
- Fun and loveable
Misunderstood the question
- Engineering is something that involves everything. Engineering is all around you. It is to design and invent
- Technology affects our everyday life –down to the zippers on our jackets
- What are 1 or 2 specific things the instructor does that hinder or interfere with your learning?
Handwriting
- Can’t read your writing
- Her handwriting is very hard to read.
- Your writing, no offense
- Sometimes the writing on the board is hard to read
- Her writing
Goes/Talks too fast
- She goes way too fastparticularly with the bridge problem
- Sometimes she can go over stuff quickly
- Goes too fast sometimes
- Sometimes she explains a theory or problem too fast and I can’t keep up
- Talks too fast
- Talk too fast
- Sometimes goes too fast
- Sometimes talks too fast
Does not explain (properly)
- Does not explain anything, and if she does, she yells and is way too fast
- We don’t go over the study guides even though I have a lot of questions
- Doesn’t explain some questions in the study guides
- She’s a little confusing because sometimes she gets confused herself while trying to explain things
- Assume that we know something in class
Push-Over
- She lets the other students complain too much. She sometimes is too nice.
- She should stop giving in to the class. People whine and complain a lot because they know she is a push-over. This means that she constantly must go over simple things because people missed class.
General
- Nothing really
- Pretty much cleared things up this class
- Not much, but I am not an Engineering major, attendance grading is too harsh
- Takes off points for stupid things
- Sometimes study guides are a busy work
- Please give the instructor 1 or 2 specific practical suggestions on ways that he can help you improve your learning in this course.
Slow Down
- Slow down when talking about important concepts that will be on the test
- Has to slow down so I can comprehend it.
- Go slower
- Speak slowly
- Go slower
- Slower talking
- Slow down when doing examples
Improve Writing
- She has to write better on the blackboard.
- Write more clearly on the board (more organized)
- Improve handwriting
Explain Better
- Try to be a little more organized in explaining things
- Analyze with ideas more
- Go over each chapter specifically
- More relatable examples for people who don’t understand technology
- Explain in words before writing formulas
Go over Study Guides and past exams
- Go over hard material really carefully
- Turn back study guides with corrections to help me with exam
- Review Practice questions
- Go over the study questions and make sure that people know the answer
Better Visualization tools
- Use videos or other learning tools
- Movies
- Maybe she could use pictures, slide shows to show the visual aspects of the course
General
- Do something about the wind that keeps making noise
- Give handouts with all the formulas and maybe an outline
- She does all that she should do
- Keep the class moving forward. Re: She should stop giving in to the class. People whine and complain a lot because they know she is a push-over. This means that she constantly must go over simple things because people missed class.
- Allow us to use notes during test
- Nothing
- Nothing
- Please give 1 or 2 specific practical suggestions on things that you can do to improve your learning in this course.
Study More
- I could read more
- Read the study guides more carefully
- Study practice tests more carefully since that will most likely be on the exam
- To go over the reading until I know it well
- Study more
- Read the book
- Read the book
- Study the questions more
- Read more
Get help
- See her for help if I need to
- Ask a friend to better explain if need be
Pay more attention
- Pay more attention to due dates for study guides
- Pay attention
- Go to class
- Stop talking like a jack-ass so much
General
- Be more accepting
- I have some difficulties with solving the problems
- No clue
- Diagrams are ____ ?
- Take good notes
- Do my homework
- Not too much, just keep reading all the material and applying what I learn