| Saied Jason jjs435 Spring 2018, 01:640:250:C3 — INTRO LINEAR ALGEBRA (index #12698) Enrollment= 85, Responses= 19 Part A: University-wide Questions: |
Student Responses | Weighted Means | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strong Disagree 1 |
Strong Agree 5 |
No response |
Section | Course | Level | Dept | ||||
| 1. The instructor was prepared for class and presented the material in an organized manner. | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 4.33 | 4.29 | 4.32 | 4.38 |
| 2. The instructor responded effectively to student comments and questions. | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 4.38 | 4.31 | 4.27 | 4.29 |
| 3. The instructor generated interest in the course material. | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 4.31 | 4.03 | 4.03 | 4.14 |
| 4. The instructor had a positive attitude toward assisting all students in understanding course material. | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 4.40 | 4.34 | 4.36 | 4.37 |
| 5. The instructor assigned grades fairly. | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 4.20 | 4.11 | 4.19 | 4.19 |
| 6. The instructional methods encouraged student learning. | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 4.31 | 4.05 | 4.04 | 4.09 |
| 7. I learned a great deal in this course. | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 4.50 | 4.18 | 4.17 | 4.15 |
| 8. I had a strong prior interest in the subject matter and wanted to take this course. | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 4.50 | 3.91 | 3.90 | 3.68 |
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| 9. I rate the teaching effectiveness of the instructor as: | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 4.38 | 4.13 | 4.08 | 4.12 |
| 10. I rate the overall quality of the course as: | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 4.40 | 4.08 | 4.03 | 4.00 |
What do you like best about this course?:
I enjoyed Mr.Saied extra review sessions, It was a great refresher before the exam. He answered everyone's questions very quickly and efficiently. When explaining concepts, he knew the perfect balance between talking and writing on the board.
The theories.
Instructor answered many questions and generated interest in the course material.
He was a great TA overall and was excellent at explaining concepts and extra tips on solving problems.
Jason is friendly and helpful when available
The material
If you were teaching this course, what would you do differently?:
I wouldn't change anything about his teaching style. I would change his handwriting, I thinks a bit too big, but I also sit in the front, so maybe it helps people in the back
Nothing.
I would have more exam reviews because some of the questions on the exams I had never seen before or had very little experience in solving.
During your review session, I answered one of your questions, and you said my answer was correct. I continued by writing that exact response on the exam, and yet you took off points for my response. Please tell me how this is possible.
Jason has a huge load of students for this class, I would put more TAs per class or split the classes up further.
Do harder problems in class
In what ways, if any, has this course or the instructor encouraged your intellectual growth and progress?:
By encouraging and answering questions
He's energetic about it.
He was great at encouraging students and providing additional resources and support in the course.
Being responsive to emails helped flow of homework assignments and MATLAB assignments
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Other comments or suggestions::
None.
I did not visit the TA for this course.
This guys should just be the professor; he was way better than the actual professor of the course.
Math department needs more TAs and professors. The class is very large and this content deserves more individualized attention. It is a lot to expect one TA to be in charge of such a large section and it results in less students achieving high marks on exams (e.g. taking off a lot of points on exams for simple arithmetic mistakes because of some "rubric"). Moreover, Jason was not regularly at a class session which would have been helpful for questions during class.
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