{"id":2144,"date":"2009-01-28T22:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2009-01-28T22:00:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T14:00:33","slug":"student-feedback-v20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/01\/28\/student-feedback-v20\/","title":{"rendered":"Student feedback v2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/blog-end-semester-PICT3137.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/> One of those things I have regrets not doing is keeping better records of student feedback over the 12 years I\u2019ve lectured and taught at institutions. If nothing else, it\u2019s fun to see how one\u2019s teaching methods, styles and approaches have changed over the years. I\u2019ve blogged about the feedback <a href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2007\/02\/17\/end-of-semester\/\">2 years ago<\/a> during my first semester at TP, but nothing that\u2019s approached some sort of organized tracking.<\/p>\n<p>So, since I think I\u2019m gonna be in the education service for at least a few more decades, I figured I better start keeping them. There\u2019s certainly no excuse, what with so much of the comments made by my students already in digitized form.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019re some of the nicest things my Software Engineering class from Oct last year said. A sample from written surveys:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cStraight to the point, fast, never waste time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cVery well-spoken &amp; enthusiastic in teaching. Passionate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cEverything is in his head. Raps better than Jay Chou.\u201d \u2013 <em>really LOL\u2026?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cKnows the subject exceptionally well.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>And their comments for improvement:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cTalk slowly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cTalk slower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cTalk slower so that students can catch what you are saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cMight be better if you slow down a bit. But overall, it was OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cSometimes too fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/ul>\n<p>And from the close-door dialog between students and faculty management, summarized by the session recorder:<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cStudents commented that Dr. Foo Chek Yang challenged them. He may be of high standard and has high expectation but students understand where he comes from.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/ul>\n<p>Talking fast is a sort of fossilized habit. Funnily though since last year I\u2019ve consciously been trying to speak slowly in lectures, and doing my Tasks of the Day slides during each practical class so if students miss what I said, it\u2019s still there on the screen. I wonder if it\u2019s to do with the subject matter though, because the students manage just fine when we\u2019re in idle banter. It was a great first term of the semester from Oct to Dec 2008 though; I had two classes which I liked a lot and enjoyed teaching.<\/p>\n<p>But still\u2026 OK, must&#8230; speak\u2026 slower\u2026. during lessons!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those things I have regrets not doing is keeping better records of student feedback over the 12 years I\u2019ve lectured and taught at institutions. If nothing else, it\u2019s fun to see how one\u2019s teaching methods, styles and approaches<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/01\/28\/student-feedback-v20\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Student feedback v2.0<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else","wpcat-644-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}