Course Evaluation Report

Fall 2011: Into to Medical Microbiology - BIOL-433-A

Rachel Polando
This course is for your:
Major Minor GE/Core Elective
7 1 0 3
Your current class standing is:
First
Year
Sophomore Junior Senior Graduate Other
0 0 3 8 0 0
Did you look forward to taking this class?
Yes Somewhat Indifferent
Not
Much
Not at
all
10 1 0 0 0
How would you rate your involvement as a student in this course? (e.g., class attendance, class
participation, keeping up with assignments)
High
Medium
High
Medium
Medium
Low
Low
9 1 0 0 1
How much time did you dedicate (outside of scheduled class time) to this course per week? (in hours)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
1 0 1 5 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Averages this term by
Course &
Professor
Course Professor Dept. School
The instructor showed enthusiasm for the course.
3.91 3.91 3.91 3.62 3.68
The instructor created a welcoming and respectful
learning environment.
3.91 3.91 3.91 3.53 3.63
The instructor created a stimulating learning
environment.
3.55 3.55 3.55 3.16 3.37
The instructor was responsive to questions and
course related difficulties.
4.00 4.00 4.00 3.52 3.56
The instructor provided adequate explanation of the
experiments and provided adequate demonstration
where applicable.
The grading was fair and appropriate.
3.91 3.91 3.91 3.26 3.49
The instructor provided timely feedback on course
work.
3.91 3.91 3.91 3.54 3.39
The instructor encouraged me to seek solutions on
my own and to think for myself.
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The instructor was well prepared for class and made
good use of class time.
3.73 3.73 3.73 3.54 3.52
The instructor was regularly available to help
students outside of class.
4.00 4.00 4.00 3.65 3.58
What is your overall rating for this instructor?
3.91 3.91 3.91 3.42 3.50
Lab objectives and requirements were clear.
The instructor made relevant connections between
the skills introduced and practiced in the lab setting
and conceptual material introduced in lecture.
The course syllabus, objectives, and assignments
were clear.
3.82 3.82 3.82 3.54 3.57
Evaluation and grading were clear and fair.
The grading criteria were clear.
3.82 3.82 3.82 3.40 3.49
The lab syllabus and objectives were clear.
The course assignments and instructional strategies
were related to the course objectives.
3.73 3.73 3.73 3.52 3.64
The course improved my knowledge or skill in the
subject area.
3.64 3.64 3.64 3.36 3.46
What is your overall rating for this course?
3.64 3.64 3.64 3.32 3.46
The skills introduced and practiced in this lab
enhanced my understanding of the conceptual
material introduced in the lecture.
What aspects of the teaching or content of this course
were especially effective?
I really enjoyed this class Dr. Polando was very good at explaining the complicated information and made it
very interesting. I also liked how she got input from the class on what particular subjects we would like to
cover after we finished all the essential information.
1.
I loved medical microbiology: Dr. Polando had a great system going of incorrporating the "fun" lectures and
journal club days in with the rest of her course load.
2.
Pictures. 3.
None 4.
Good lecture powerpoints and the journal reviews were interesting. 5.
Dr. Polando showed a lot of enthusiasm for the material. Her enthusiasm kept me interested and alert in class. 6.
Being able to come to you with any questions or difficulties 7.
journal club 8.
Journal Clubs are fantastic...really interesting, most challenging part of the course, and really useful. 9.
The fact that all quizzes were open from the beginning was great. 10.
All of the diagrams helped better explain concepts that were unclear at first. 11.
What changes could be made to improve the teaching or
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the content of this course?
I did not think that the quizzes were very effective at helping me learn. I would have like them to be taken after
we covered the chapter to see how well I understood the information given. Lots of the questions asked only
were covered in the book and not so much in the lecture.
1.
Perhaps make the course a two semester course or maybe worth 4 credit hours as a lecture-- there was a LOT
of material and I felt like I was rushing all semester.
2.
Picture with title. It's hard to remember what the picture is for with no title. More exams. There is too much
information for only two exams.
3.
Get rid of this course all together 4.
No changes 5.
None. 6.
I did not like the book it seemed to confuse me more, the material for this class was pretty difficult the book
seemed to go into way further detail than the class notes
7.
powerpoints could be a little clearer/in a better order -- using them for review of a test can be confusing 8.
Exams were pretty easy...not complaining, but you've got a lot of wiggle room before they get too tricky. The
last exam (before the final) was better.
9.
Maybe have larger groups for JC so we didn't have so many to do. 10.
I really like class activities so maybe some more activities like the complement activity. 11.
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