Survey Results
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MATH 221 End-of-term WeBWorK Survey
Monday, December 10, 2012
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This report contains a detailed statistical analysis of the results to the survey
titled MATH 221 End-of-term WeBWorK Survey . The results analysis includes
answers from all respondents who took the survey in the 14 day period from
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 to Tuesday, December 04, 2012. 134
completed responses were received to the survey during this time.
Survey Results & Analysis
Survey: MATH 221 End-of-term WeBWorK Survey
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Responses Received: 134
Please enter your student number. Note that your individual responses
will not be passed along to your instructor and will not affect your
course grades in any way. We ask for your student number to track
completion and for research purpose only, so that your responses
earlier in the term can be matched to those here.
Before this course (Sept 2012), how long have you not taken a math
course?
How many courses are you taking this term (including Math 221)?
On average, how many hours do you spend on WeBWorK assignment
every week?
For the second half of the course, how would you rate the
mathematical difficulty of WeBWorK problems relative to other
problems in the course on average?
For the second half of the course, how often is the syntax required to
submit an answer to WeBWorK an obstacle in completing your
assignment on average?
After an assignment is due, do you go back and check the correct
answers?
Do you go back and redo previous WeBWorK assignments when you
study or review the course materials?
What reference materials do you use when doing WeBWorK
assignments?
Textbook(What reference materials do you use when doing WeBWorK
assignments?)
Lecture notes(What reference materials do you use when doing
WeBWorK assignments?)
Other materials provided by the instructor (please specify below)(What
reference materials do you use when doing WeBWorK assignments?)
Tutorial videos found online(What reference materials do you use
when doing WeBWorK assignments?)
Other materials not provided by the instructor (please specify
below)(What reference materials do you use when doing WeBWorK
assignments?)
Do you find your textbook useful?
Which of the following topics do you think are particularly difficult to
learn/understand?
Please tell us anything that you would like to see but is missing in
WeBWorK or any suggestion that might improve your experience with
WeBWorK if you are using it again in the future.
Please tell us anything that you would like to see but is missing in
WeBWorK or any suggestion that might improve your experience with
WeBWorK if you are using it again in the future.
webwork has no hints on where you are going wrong. please add some sort of
hint system
Detailed Solutions (this would make the assignments more useful to see the
process--> if detailed solutions are given, more questions on the assignment
would be helpful)
Please make us be able to see our answers that have been submitted last time.
When I log in again, the Preview Answer button doesn't work.
After the webwork due date, we are allowed to download the PDF files with the
solutions (how to solve) and answers. Sometimes, the solutions are missing. If
they are present, the solution layout is generally messy and hard to read.
More problems that require the reasoning of the theorems Practice test qustions
There need to be written assignments! WeBWork is not sufficient for test
preparation. Written assignments would provide the necessary feedback about
syntax, answer details, and other aspects of answering questions. There needs
to be more practice answering questions in a test-like format. Also, giving our
class a different class's practice midterm is NOT effective. We need practice with
a midterm similar to the one we will be writing, so that we are properly
prepared!
It will be better if WeBWorK can save the most recent 3 answers of the student
(even if this might not be correct). If there is more hints and solutions, it will be
great.
Webwork is very helpful. It keeps me on track.
Seems legit
Optional assignments for study purposes
it's actually pretty good to me, so nothing much
nothing
nothing
It would be helpful to see what previous attempts into webwork for a question
had been.
Please continue to allow unlimited attempts for every question!
The steps to get to the solutions.
Show step by step answers after submission.
it's good.
na
Multi-stage problems. Partial hints or example problems for multi-choice
questions in Math 221. Ungraded practice problems prior to graded problems. If
I don't use those each week there will still be weeks where I sit down to go over
them. Practice is the only way to improve at math.
N/A
additional practice problems from the textbook.
Complete solutions to problems
Make sure to follow along with the instructor, almost always webworks is a
couple lectures ahead of the instructor!!! This causes great difficulty.
Perhaps a hint system for more difficult problems? Other than that,WeBWorK
was fine for me.
I don't know if it is possible but reducing the amount of syntax would be nice.
While I didn't have much difficulty with it, it was still sort of a pain. Moreover it
would be quite nice to have some tips for the "Select the statements that are
true* questions. Those, I find, take me the longest to complete often because I
misread one of the statements and was just 1 away!
The format for inputting matrices is often annoying, but it is hard to find a better
way to do this without giving information about the answer (e.g. size of the
matrix)
Hints
Perhaps more difficult/conceptual questions for bonus marks. Also, more
applications.
I wish solutions were provided in addition to the correct answers. Sometimes I
get the correct answers, but am unsure if my solution is correct or there is a
better way to approach the question.
no
nothing
N/A
No change required.
If it's possible, to have the WebWork as similar to the textbook or test questions
would be ideal.
Maybe allow answers involving decimals, but we will have to provide decimals up
to, for example, 4 decimal places. Sometimes it is hard to type out all the syntax
used (For example: sqrt() and ^ when used in cos^-1(-12/(sqrt(41)*sqrt(20)))).
n/a
I would appreciate if more questions can offer partial credits for the right parts.
more questions that are similar to exam questions
Ways to talk to other students who are struggling with similar problems
nothing
nothing
some theoretical problems
I would appreciate if there are detailed solutions to every question and
particularly explanations to those definition questions....that would be very
helpful.
Some conceptual problems would be welcome.
Having access to step-by-step solutions or at least an explanation for the correct
answer to each problem would be very useful - it's very frustrating to have to
guess and check when you don't understand how the solution to a problem is
arrived at. Also, it would be good to have a couple more realistic questions (like
you would see on an exam) and then have fewer questions total, rather than a
larger set of relatively basic problems.
It's good, I liked it.
Please add any comment about WeBWorK or course materials that you
feel are not captured by the questions above.
Please add any comment about WeBWorK or course materials that you
feel are not captured by the questions above.
Nothing
No comment
webwork is very helpful.
everything is fine
nothing
nothing
theory questions are hard.
I like having unlimited attempts for each question because I feel less stressed
about having to answer the question correctly within the first x amount of
submissions, so I can continue to solve for the answer until I get it right and also
not have to worry about getting the syntax wrong on my last try.
That's all.
It's a good way to do homework.
no comments
na
N/A
None
there were almost no geometric or word problems. Most of them were
computational
no comment
The WeBWorK is, in general, quite helpful.
I really like webwork. I wish there were optional problems for practice.
no
nothing
N/A
Very good revision for any test. ex) midterm, finals
I find that the true or false questions are extremely difficult. I understand that it
will be ridiculous to mark each question right/wrong individually (since if we got
it wrong for "true", we will know next time to change it to "false".) But having
hints would probably help a lot more. For example, you can specify the number
of "true" answers. (eg. 4 true out of 7 statements)
n/a
I would like to see more practice questions for the course.
nothing really
The webwork questions are suppose to be able to get us prepared for the tests,
but it is not quite the same with the test questions. Sometimes they are good but
sometimes bad. It makes me really frustrated when I find that some of them are
not really rounding up nicely.
Not I can think of
nothing
nothing
:)
I felt that the webwork was a very useful tool, and the level of questions on
webwork was similar to those on exams.
I like the webwork a lot. Please keep using it in the future.
WeBWorK itself is great, but I think there is some room for improvement in the
questions chosen for the assignments and the feedback received for each answer
(as mentioned earlier).
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