Qn0 My

ABOUT YOU

Qn0 I am taking the course as

CSE471 3

CSE598 28

1 didn’t register

1 no selection made

QN1 The pace of the class/lectures is

somewhat slow 1

too slow

somewhat fast 20

too fast

just right 10

QN2 The lecture style

Keeps you engaged 24

overwhelms you 3.5

reasonable 5

Conducive to an after-lunch snooze 0.5

QN3 The lecture(s) that you liked most until now (you can circle multiple)

The intro lectures 4

The lectures on vector similarity 13

The lectures on latent semantic indexing 14

The lectures on social networks 24

The lectures on link analysis 14

None of them

QN4 The lecture(s) that you liked *least* until now (you can circle multiple)

The intro lectures 4

The lectures on vector similarity 4

The lectures on latent semantic indexing 8

The lectures on social networks 2

The lectures on link analysis 4

All of them 1

QN5 Which type of lectures did you follow better

The lectures done with slides 12

The lectures done with white-board 3

Those with a mix 18

QN6 The class is

Too much "Teacher Talking" 29

Sufficiently interactive 4

Too interactive

QN7 The material (as of now) is

Exciting 20

Boring 1

Okay 12

Qn 8 The relation between lectures and readings on the readings list is

There is barely any relation

There is reasonable relation 21

Very well related 10

QN9 The presentation level

Goes right over my head 4

Spoonfeeds me by repeating every little thing

Just right for me 28

QN10 Most of the the extra stuff sent on class e-mail list and blog is, for the most part,

lapped-up by me 22

ignored by me 9

What extra stuff? 1

QN11 I am able to get help when needed from the Instructor

Strongly agree 14

Okay 15

Not really 1

QN12 I am able to get help when needed from the TA

Strongly agree 17

Okay 13

Not really

N/A 1

13 ppl who chose strongly agree for Q11 also chose strongly agree for Q12

10 ppl who chose okay for 11 also chose okay for 12

QN13 The expectations/demands of the course/instructor are

Unreasonably high 1

Unreasonably low

Challenging but reasonable 25

QN14 The lecture material is

Too depth oriented 1

Too breadth oriented 7

Just right 17

QN15 The lectures are

Too much intuition and too little formal detail 3

Too much formal detail, too little intuition 1

Balanced between intuition and detail 21

QN16 In your opinion there should be

More frequent homeworks 4

Less frequent homeworks 5

Current schedule is fine 15

QN17 In your opinion there should be (multiple answers okay)

There should be more frequent projects 6

There should be less frequent projects 4

The projects should be more challenging 8

The projects should be way less challenging 3

Qn18 The projects are

Insultingly easy 1

Too hard 1

Just right 21

Qn19 The homeworks are

Insultingly easy

Too hard 5

Just right 19

17 people who chose just right for Q18 chose just right for Q19

1 chose too hard for both 18 and 19

4 ppl who chose just right for 18 chose too hard for 19

QN20 Your stress/anxiety level about this course relative to your other courses is

Very high 13

Very low 1

About the same 12

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Comments:

1. Sudden digressions make me lose my train of thought

2. I like how the professor includes the audio of the classes

3. Homeworks are not hard, but amount of questions and time put into each question is too time consuming. This class is twice the work of some of my other classes. That being said, I appreciate the amount of material I am learning

a) homeworks very interesting but too big

b) Too much homework project and not enough time to do it

c) Very interesting course but I spent for it as much time as the sum of all time spent on all my other couses!

a) More frequent homework, because the homework is way behind the slides after a few weeks same amount more ….

b) Please no formulas that contain symbols that are not explained on the slides

i. Example what is lambda in variance²?

ii. What is k, what is n^2?

6. Blog material shows up too frequently. I mostly ignore the thinking cap questions, because they are unpredictable and IR is not my only class with this. I have no idea how the blog questions are influencing the grade and since the discussion …. To be outdated after a few days it makes almost no sense to contribute. To summarizes: the blog is hardly … and therefore I mostly ignore it. (but I checked out google’s … search index and similar stuff