StartEvaluation
Title: Start-evaluation
Background: course evaluation for improved learning in large student groups (>100 students) with diverse background
Problem: When a large group of students with varying educational background come together in a shared course the students' varying views on learning can cause problems.
Solution(?): I have good experience from using a "Start-evaluation" handed out on the first lecture, where all students
- answer a few questions about their subject background (programming language of choice, experience of earlier courses, etc.), and
- describe their "learning style" by ranking different learning methods.
The information gathered gave me as a teacher a good overview of the students' backgrounds but the aim was also to affect the students views of what learning is (make them take responsibility for their own learning process). From the twelve listed "learning methods", eight were about the students own learning and only four included situations involving active teachers.
Name: Patrik Jansson
Ref: Attach:kursutv.pdf
Results from a course on Databases in 2001:
| Relative importance | Description |
|---|---|
| 4.75 | Own work in the lab group |
| 3.81 | Attend lectures |
| 3.81 | Read lecture notes / slides off-line |
| 3.00 | Other exam-preparation |
| 2.50 | Own work with excercises |
| 2.42 | Ta part in exercise sessions |
| 2.04 | Getting help in the lab |
| 1.87 | Writing the summary sheet before the exam |
| 1.70 | Discussions with other students |
| 1.32 | Reading the course book |
| 0.76 | Other discussions with teachers/supervisors |
| 0.46 | Question/answer sessions |