Student Opinion Surveys

Week 3

What would have helped you learn more - or want to learn more - this past week?

1. Nothing, I fully understood the material

2. Good to go

3. Nothing really. The TA did a great job at his review session. I learned almost everything I needed for the week with CourseCompass.

4. Lectures are not helpful! The teacher is trying very hard but all he talks about is graphs of the class surveys. This is not helping us to learn what we will need for the tests. If he does not actually teach us in the lecture no one will come. All he talks about is things that do not relate to the text. Very difficult to listen to. The TA blog and help session are the only thing that saves this class even though the teacher tries very hard and is extremely nice.

5. n/a

6. More demonstrations of how to use JMP.

7. If you would leave the lecture notes on the overhead for longer so that I can write them down...I'm a kinesthetic learner so actually doing something like writing helps me to pay attention and learn.

8. Better explanations of the mathematical variables and formulas. I still do not understand how to find the standard deviation, I understand how to apply the formula but where does the value for n come from? Not explained well

9. Everything went real well

10. n/a

11. More lightsaber action

12. The 30 minute reviews before the test are really helpful but it would be good to have a review sheet maybe or a review session a little ahead of time instead of right before the test so we could have a little more time to study the material that we should have known.

13. I think the classes are fine.

14. More examples

15. Perhaps if you actually taught something instead of just fiddling around with your great technology? The technology sucks! Focus on teaching and get over the tech!

16. I think it went overall very well. I was happy that you decided to leave the test at the start of class Tuesday. I think had we moved it to the end it would have been harder. It would be harder to focus on learning the material for that day with a test looming over our head at the end of the class

17. During the exam it was very loud and hard to concentrate.

18. I don’t really have any suggestions

19. The class change this week was really distracting, but I know that was just a special situation.

20. More discussion over the exams questions and how we should attack them.

21. n/a

22. If the homework was easier to get to and do

23. Would have liked a better explanation of what needs to be done for the project that's due

24. More clarification about the specifics of the project

25. I think that possibly going over the CourseCompass problems that students have at the beginning of class would be helpful for many. The most helpful part of the class for me by far is the help sessions with Phil before class on Tuesdays.

26. I have a hard time focusing for extended periods of time, and it seems like the class periods could easily be condensed to a shorter amount of time without losing any of the fun or lecture material.

27. A better explanation of the JMP program. Also, more instruction from Phil.

28. n/a

29. Clearer explanations of key concepts at the end of class. An overview of the main points.

30. I did not see Phil's pre-test session held on Tuesday before the exam as a choice "for what helped me learn last week" survey question. That was a great review session, a little cramped for time, but still great.

31. N/A

32. The material is starting to get a lot more in depth. Just taking a tad bit more time to furthermore discuss.

33. I just like CourseCompass, and the effort the teacher and the TA are doing. Other than that I could not really ask for more. class is going well

34. I don't like that so much of the class relies on technology. I wish there was more reliance on in-class materials and the textbook and that we did not have to spend hours out of class on the computer.

35. Being a bit slow and using repetition S MUCH MORE, to avoid anything that w'd embarrass the TA.

36. More explanation about the upcoming project.

37. More visual aids

38. I'm not sure what would have helped, I was satisfied with how the classes went.

39. Nothing I can think of.

40. The technology, use of examples in class, humor, and instructor/TA availability has helped me tremendously in understanding this class called Statistics. Thanks for all your help.

41. I find that each week my learning experience is only expanded upon. The class seems to be getting better and better.

42. More help interpreting graphs

43. Better explanations of some of the problems that we were learning about

44. Everything you guys are doing is helpful, although the JMP program is a little complicated.

45. If I would stop drinking the night before.

46. I like things examples that have real life application.

47. I missed class on Thursday due to the flu, so I probably would have learned a bit more without the flu. I would also like the 68-95-99.7 rule explained in more detail.

48. I think I understood everything we learned. It was easy and accessible to go back and look at the things I was unsure of.

49. Unfortunately I don't have an answer for that this week. It changes depending upon how much I work on understanding the concepts on my own time.

50. If more examples were done

51. Nothing. I believed I learned the material put forth by you.

52. I hated the building we were in. I hope we never have class there again. I also feel we shouldn't have a break in the last 20 minutes of class.

53. Nothing Extra. I thought the material presented was straight forward and needed no further explanation.

54. LECTURE BLOG, LECTURE, COURSECOMPASS.

55. I still don’t understand the whole z-score thing but it’s cool class that is great

56. More explanation of Normal Distributions and other things from the homework. I struggled some with the homework this weekend.

57. Ask more questions from students.

58. I didn't see anything on the JMP demos that explained how to create spline lines or how to connect the means of box plots.

59. I ENJOYED MOST EVERYTHING. NOT A TREKKIE THOUGH SO MUCH HUMOR GOES OVER MY HEAD.