Course Evaluation

Published

November 2, 2024

Important

Course evaluations for the Fall term will be conducted from November 18 to 29, 2024.

Importance of Your Feedback

Although CSI 4106 has been offered for many years, this is my inaugural year teaching it. Your constructive feedback is crucial for refining the course in the future. Please share your thoughts on what should be retained, removed, modified, or added. While I may not be able to implement every suggestion, especially if they conflict, I will thoroughly read and consider all feedback.

Rest assured that your evaluations are anonymous. I will receive your feedback only after the grades are submitted in the Winter.

Higher participation leads to more representative evaluations. Low response rates can skew results, reflecting only extreme opinions. In a first-year course with over 100 students, I once achieved a 77% participation rate. In the 2019 graduate course on machine learning for bioinformatics, participation was 100%. Let’s maintain this strong engagement and demonstrate our students’ active involvement.

Areas for Your Input

  • How is the balance between theory and application? Is the course too theoretical, not theoretical enough, or just right?
  • Are there sufficient coding examples?
  • Are the examples helpful? If not, why? What types of examples would be more beneficial?
  • How do you perceive the role of artificial intelligence in completing assignments and other tasks? Did its use enhance or detract from your understanding of the subject matter?
  • For those that are not in the data science program, do you find there are overlaps excessive overlaps with your courses. Please list the topics.
  • There may be overlap with data science program courses. If you are in the data science program, do you find there are overlaps excessive overlaps with your courses. Please list the topics. Note that some redundancy, learning similar concepts from different perspectives, can be beneficial.
  • Which concepts were most helpful?
  • Which concepts should be eliminated and why?
  • Is the course website well-organized and helpful? What additional information would you like to see?

Additional Information

Previous course evaluations for all the courses are available on the EvaluAction platform.