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T-61.271 > Course survey Course surveyWe asked those who participated the 13 December 2001 exam to fill in a survey form. Thanks for all of you who took the time to fill in the form. Summary of the feedback13 students returned the survey form. The medians of answers are written in strong font, with minimum and maximum given in parenthesis (min/max).
The following questions were answered on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being "no" and 5 being "yes":
In addition we asked some more general questions. You can find summary of the feedback below.
Comments of the feedbackThe feedback was overall quite positive. The students gave the lectures, exercise sessions and the lecture slides an average score of 4, or something between "satisfactory" and "excellent". The course as a whole got the same good evaluation. The the topics were deemed interesting and useful and they were apparently presented well. Almost everybody thought that the things they have learned will be useful for them in the future. It is nice to hear that all the effort has been worth something. But one can always do better. There are some things that we can do little about, like the time of the lectures or lack of a good and single course book. Below is summarized how we can and will develop the course in the future: This year we gave the students a list of titles of visualization projects and briefly explained them. They chose a title, after which they would write a project plan which we would review and approve. The students could also suggest a topic of their own. We plan give the requirements for the individual projects in writing in the future courses. The exercise sessions got a good grade, but the attendance was poor, desite of the fact that attending the exercise sessions clearly helped in the exam. The students could even raise their grade by one point by solving the the exercise problems diligently. The opinion of the importance of the exercise sessions in understanding the course varied a lot: some thought that they are unnecessary, while others thought that the exercise sessions are very important for understanding the course. One thing that we could do something about is that this year the exercise problems were not given before the same topics were discussed in the lectures. This was mainly because this is a new course: the lectures and their exact contents were uncertain even to the lecturer until the day of lectures. In the future courses we plan to give the exercise problems well in advance of the lectures and, if necessary, combine several exercise sessions into one (some topics don't have that many problems). We may also require a minimal participation to the exercise sessions. We hope that this will make solving and attending the exercise sessions more rewarding. The lectures got also a good grade. I will try to develop the contents of the lectures further and I will make sure that all concepts will be understood proprely, as suggested by some comments. We will also make the lecture slides available for ordering in the future courses. This should make obtaining the slides easier for everyone. (This year the copies were distributed in the lectures and they were also available from a WWW page.) I think that the current prerequisites (first two years'
mathematics courses) are fine. We will consider whether we should add
a mention of basic programming skills (which may be needed in the
visualization projects).
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