Responses

  1. 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
  1. 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
  1. 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
  1. 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