Student Opinion Survey

Week 4

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

1. If our homework assignments correlated with what we are learning in class that would be helpful. I no longer attend lecture after I went straight home on Thursday evening and attempted the HW only to find myself clueless.

2. Ask more questions from students to ensure we are learning

3. I'm finding that the homework doesn't always match up to what we learned in class, making it really difficult to try and teach it to myself.

4. More example problems

5. The lectures AGAIN have almost nothing to do with material that will be on the tests or the homework. We have yet to go through as a class and work problems. We have to ask the TA or figure it out ourselves. This is not helping us to learn it the right way.

6. I understood all the material

7. Nothing, I have been learning just fine.

8. Perhaps if I had sat in the front like I usually do. It would have made it easier to pay more attention and focus.

9. Maybe a group activity in class.

10. Nothing would have helped me learn more. I learned all that I could with the resources provided.

11. The extra help from our TA and instructor is extremely helpful in this course. This class can be confusing and being able to contact the instructor or TA at mostly anytime is really great.

12. I would have learned more if I had retained more of the information given.

13. I like the way the class is going.

14. None

15. Nothing really.

16. I think that more real life application problems would be very beneficial.

17. I got confused on the project and went to office hours but there were so many people I didn't get to speak with the TA. Also it was a lot to get ready for the exam, use CourseCompass, and do the project all around the same time. Hopefully, the next time the projects could be due on Thursdays

18. Phil has been a tremendous help.

19. I soaked up every bit of information this week except for the correlation coefficient. However, with the new calculator posted on Blackboard, solving these problems is really not that difficult.

20. Don't have much to say at this moment.

21. Better organization

22. if Dr. Leon would teach

23. Everything was good in class

24. More examples in class done on the board

25. Nothing, everything was great.

26. None. I love the class!

27. I was extremely satisfied with class this week.

28. May be you can slow down a little bit. Thanks.

29. Nothing. I learned fairly well from the lecture presented

30. Sometimes it takes a long time for Dr. Leon to start lecture which is very distracting and makes it difficult to "get into" the material.

31. This past week went well. I was able to understand what was being taught

32. Nothing really, the classes went well.

33. I like the weekly exams. It allows you to stay on top of the material without trying to learn to much at once

34. Good

35. n/a

36. Less rambling and more straight forward class then class would not be as long

37. There was a lot of stuff happening last week. There was a project due, a large amount of homework and an exam all in one day. I was a little overwhelmed.

38. The two most helpful components of this course for me are Phil's exam reviews before class on Tuesday’s class and the course compass homework. The class blog is also pretty helpful as well.

39. I would have learned better if the project, the exam, and homework were not all due on the same day.

40. More detailed descriptions on how to work the problems

41. Phil’s help sessions on Tuesdays help the most. He's really good at explaining things.

42. Homework, a test and a project not being on the same day.

43. Nothing. You have provided everything to allow a student to succeed.

44. LECTURE, COURSRCOMPASS

45. Going over material more slowly

46. Nothing....I appreciate the willingness of the teachers to help, and I like the structure of the class.

47. The technology just gets in the way of the substance of the course. I feel like the professor’s over usage of technological elements is taking too much away from the real material.

48. Well the news about Michael Jackson last Thursday was a major distraction for me.

49. I don't find that spending class time going over the surveys is especially helpful. Last Tuesday we went over how to make the course better for the first hour and a half, but what I think would make the course better is spending class time on the lecture material and getting feedback via the surveys.

50. More cowbell

51. Nothing you could do, really. If my life was less hectic and I had studied more--that would have helped! :)

52. When Phil wrote us the email on how to do last Tuesday's homework (dealing with going from r-squared to r), the directions were a little bit unclear and I did it wrong on the homework as a result. Even the website on UTK on how to graph it didn't help at all. So maybe be a little bit clearer on JMP tutorials.

53. It’s going well. More math examples maybe.

54. I don’t know. I thought that I did better on the exam than my grade showed

55. I think more explaining and writing examples.

56. Going to the extra help session before class this past week.

57. The weekly exams and help sessions are greatly improving the way I learn and remembering what we have learned in the past lectures.

58. The review sessions are the best!