IT462 Anonymous Feedback for Credit! Due: Friday, April 10, 2009, beginning of class Please fill out the survey on the following pages. Your responses are very important to me and will help me improve the course for you, so please allow a few minutes to think about your answers. To encourage and reward your participation, if you complete this survey I will add 25% to your lowest scoring homework/lab. However, since this is anonymous, you will turn in this sheet separately from your actual comments: just tear them apart and place them in the appropriate piles on the due date. I filled out the survey. Please give me the points! Name:________________________________ IT462 Interm Survey (12 week – Spring2009) – Anonymous OVERALL 1. Overall, this course has been… (please circle a number) 1 2 3 Excellent Pretty good 4 5 Not so great 2. Overall, the course is moving… 1 2 Too quickly 3 About right 4 5 Too slowly 3. Overall, I have learned… 1 2 A lot 3 Fair amount 4 5 Not much 4. Compared to my other courses, the amount of effort I spend on this course is: 1 2 3 4 5 A lot Average Not much LECTURE (Discussions) 5. Overall, lecture has been: 1 2 Very interesting 3 Average 4 5 Boring 6. What could I do to improve lecture? ASSIGNMENTS 7. Overall, how much have you learned from the assignments? 1 2 3 4 A lot Fair amount 8. Overall, how difficult have the labs been? 1 2 3 4 Too difficult About right 9. What could I do to improve the assignments? COMMENTS 10. List three things you would keep in this course (strengths): 11. List three things you would change in this course (weaknesses): 12. Any other comments or suggestions for improvement? (please also complete the questions on the other side) 5 Not much 5 Too easy Data Mining, PageRank, HITS, MapReduce 13. When we covered this topic, the course as a whole was… 1 Excellent 2 3 Pretty good 4 5 Not so great 4 5 Too slowly 4 5 Not much 4 5 Not so great 4 5 Too slowly 4 5 Not much 4 5 Not so great 4 5 Too slowly 4 5 Not much 14. When we covered this topic, the course moved… 1 Too quickly 2 3 About right 15. When we covered this topic, I learned… 1 A lot 2 3 Fair amount 16. Specific comments? Parallel, Distributed, and P2P Databases When we covered this topic, the course as a whole was… 1 Excellent 2 3 Pretty good 17. When we covered this topic, the course moved… 1 Too quickly 2 3 About right 18. When we covered this topic, I learned… 1 A lot 2 3 Fair amount 19. Specific comments? XML, Web Services When we covered this topic, the course as a whole was… 1 Excellent 2 3 Pretty good 20. When we covered this topic, the course moved… 1 Too quickly 2 3 About right 21. When we covered this topic, I learned… 1 A lot 22. Specific comments? 2 3 Fair amount