Student Opinion Surveys

I am not getting as many questions as I would like in class. Please suggest what I can do to encourage more questions.

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2. By going over more examples of homework and exam questions, review what is on the blog

3. No comment

4. Offer candy to those who ask and answers questions.

5. Nothing really. I just learn by visual examples and clear instructions

6. Getting people to attend should be the main priority.

7. Ask if anyone has questions after completing a section

8. Ask more questions from students and put them on the spot. Ask students to explain things that you explained!

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10. To stop your lecture may be 25 min. earlier for questions. When questions are asked, make sure we all understand them and answer to the whole class.

11. Give more common examples to explain terms in textbook

12. Some teachers require asking questions as part of a participation grade

13. Give us bonus points for asking good questions...that always motivates

14. It may be a language barrier, even I sometimes get lost in what you are talking about. I lived in south Florida for a while and have taken 5 years of Spanish.

15. Many people don't like to draw attention to them. So it will be difficult to get them to ask questions

16. I think that students should have some problems that they work in class in order to identify what questions they actually have.

17. I have no idea.

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19. No ideas

20. People just don't know what questions they might need to know. Help them know what you expect them to learn about specific ideas.

21. Offer extra credit for more participation, and I guarantee that more questions will be asked.

22. I think people aren't asking too many questions because a lot of the slides are very well explained but perhaps if you as the students open ended questions they will respond by asking you questions.

23. I think it is a good thing to not have many questions asked. Hopefully that means everyone understands the material.

24. Nothing, between your lectures and all of the online material most of the students’ questions are being addressed.

25. Elaborate more on what kind of answer you are searching for

26. Let Phil teach more

27. Well, most folks, even if they have a question, won't speak up until they feel that they are being invited to do so--maybe by just having you ask more often throughout the lecture, if anyone has a question, and not just at the end. Or, a good way is to ask us questions and actually expect an answer from someone (anyone)--wait on the answer. The more we have to answer questions, the more we will be likely to speak out.

28. Wear more masks, it will keep us focused

29. Work problems more frequently and encourage questions while you work it out

30. Set aside a 30 minute window for a class discussion and question session

31. Be less clear.

32. You could have us come up to point out parts of graphs or answer questions on PowerPoint.

33. You could be possibly providing so many materials and such informative lectures that there really aren't many questions. I feel pretty competent in the issues being taught.

34. No suggestions.

35. There are many ways for us to understand the material through electronic means and I feel that takes away the venue for asking questions. As long as we are performing well on the exams, there shouldn't be a problem with less questions being asked.

36. Perhaps give people sample problems to work out in class and then give them 5 minutes to do it then at the end of the 5 minutes ask who has questions and go over problems with the class

37. Give extra credit

38. I never need to ask questions because of your immaculate teaching and star trek theme

39. I am unsure what can be done to propose more questions.

40. If a student has a question, he or she will ask it. Calling on students who have not raised their hands does not make for a better learning environment. Let those who wish to participate do so and allow the others listen.

41. For me, between the PowerPoints, the class blog, the textbook, and having friends in the class, I am able to learn the material very easily, so I do not have any questions. However, students always respond to extra credit well.

42. Candy incentive for questions answered correctly? If you don't have many questions then the majority of the class must understand the material.

43. None

44. When someone asks a question, answer it right then and there. The longer you wait to answer it, the less interested students will be.

45. You cover all of my questions the majority of the time.

46. I'm not that shy normally, but in large classes (as cliché as it might be) I just get too intimidated by the large audience and kind of concerned with asking the wrong thing. It could just be a personal matter of something somewhat similar with other students or that they're too lost in the course to understand the new material during class time.

47. I'm not sure

48. I have no idea. Maybe just be happy with the questions you do receive. If you lecture well, there should be no questions. So, maybe your goal should be to minimize questions instead of maximizing them.

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50. Everything is pretty straight forward and you do a great job teaching it so I think that is why there are not many questions. It's not the shyness of the class but rather that you just teach everything so well and break it down to make it simple and easy for the class to understand.

51. Give extra credit points maybe, not really sure. Students just don't like speaking out in class very much.

52. Ask about the exam, and what questions we may have had from it. Whether we were confused by a question, or whether we didn’t know how to do one of the problems. That way, we understand that material before moving onto more subjects.

53. We can't understand you and you continue to talk about things that are NOT relevant to what we are tested over. We don't want to ask questions and will continue not to ask questions if you keep doing that.

54. I am not sure. Maybe provide the students with some in class problems we can do during class to help us follow along with what you are doing in the power point.

55. Maybe you can show more examples and stop afterwards and ask if everyone understands. Then people who do not will ask for another example or ask a specific question.

56. Ask for questions.

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58. Not really sure how to solve this problem.

59. Perhaps you could implement a megaphone that we could pass around to answer questions it would be loud but I believe it would make people excited and participate more

60. Stop teaching so well I think you do a great job explaining everything clearly which really eliminates questions

61. In class, all we do is watch the professor read the slides. If the class were more interactive and encouraged the students to walk through JMP or some of the by-hand calculations then it would greatly improve, at least, my involvement in the class.

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