2008
Best
Activities/experiments - 7
Content - 3
interesting
Applicable/relevant/everyday life - 6
Wide range of topics
Examples - 3
Discussions - 8
Offer different viewpoints
Open
Input is welcome
Interactive/Conversational nature - 2
Quality of teaching
Lectures 1,1
Engaging
Tangents
Understandable
Open/friendly/relaxed environment - 2
Student-led discussions
Keeps material current
Fun - 2
Easy to pay attention
Good book
The teacher - 5
Knowledgable prof - 2
Likes what he is teaching
Teacher wrote the book
No attendance
Study guides
Short assignments - 3
Website syllabus - 3
Online notes - 2
From beginning of semester
Well organized
Worst
Prof asks specific questions and does not always accept alternative answers
Make more applicable to everyday life
Need more media sources as examples
Distractions - 4
Other people talking - 2
Lack of control
Sometimes too fast paced
Sometimes loses focus - 2
Off topic discussions
Online syllabus - 4
Disorganized
Unclear (dates)
Should be on angel
Online notes are sometimes ambiguous (especially concepts not in the book)
More notes
Term paper - 7
Little direction - 2
No extra credit - 2
Test review
Short assignments - 4
Less + final paper
Not helpful
Tests - 5
Hard/confusing
Inconsistent with activities/notes
Book - 2
not as related to class as expected
random, not all info
2 different study guides
Not grading attendance - 2
Location
Long periods
Change
Give points for research, don’t take away
Website difficult to use
Better review for exam - 3
No T/F
More group work
Quizzes instead of short assignments (not clear what is a 5)
Hold class in a circle
More activities
Extra credit
Shorter classes
Change attendance policy - 2
Use angel, more convenient
More applied assignments
More in class assignments
More out of class applications
Talk about application more
Control class better