Course and Instructor Evaluations
cs410 and/or cs510 Programming in Java

This page presents the department mandated student evaluations of various courses/sections of CS510 Programming in Java that I taught. All the following data was collected after the last major overhaul of the course. This is all the information that was made available to me at the time I prepared this page. In some cases, different sections of the same course were tabulated separately and so are presented here.

The tabular entries for the columns labeled 1, ..., 5 count the number of responses for the corresponding marginal entries, where, on the evaluation form, 1 is defined as "Very Much (High)" and 5 is defined as "Very Little (Low)".

Fall 99 (CRN 10553) 44 respondents

  Question   1     2     3     4     5   Mean
1. Course objectives clearly outlined and met 2416210 1.53
2. Basis for grading defined at the beginning of course 1618630 1.91
3. Instructor's command of the subject matter 2416100 1.44
4. Instructor's preparation for class 3010210 1.40
5. Instructor starts/stops class on time 376000 1.14
6. Instructor's ability to communicate 1722310 1.72
7. Instructor's ability and willingness to answer questions 2512320 1.57
8. Instructor presents examples/clarifications not in text 1613742 2.12
9. Instructor's availability (office hours) 1911700 1.68
10. Overall performance of instructor 2114800 1.70
11. Rate/compare this class with other CS classes 1411820 1.94
12. Structure and class organization 19101121 1.98
13. Quality and usefulness of homework assignments 1317650 2.07
14. Quality and usefulness of lab assignments 1118830 2.08
15. How do you rate the textbook and/or other reference material 823632 2.24
16. Did you feel the exams/tests were fair? 7101044 2.55

Spring 00 (CRN 64266 concurrent with section 64383) 3 respondents

  Question   1     2     3     4     5   Mean
1. Course objectives clearly outlined and met 21000 1.33
2. Basis for grading defined at the beginning of course 21000 1.33
3. Instructor's command of the subject matter 12000 1.67
4. Instructor's preparation for class 12000 1.67
5. Instructor starts/stops class on time 12000 1.67
6. Instructor's ability to communicate 12000 1.67
7. Instructor's ability and willingness to answer questions 12000 1.67
8. Instructor presents examples/clarifications not in text 12000 1.67
9. Instructor's availability (office hours) 20100 1.67
10. Overall performance of instructor 12000 1.67
11. Rate/compare this class with other CS classes 21000 1.33
12. Structure and class organization 21000 1.33
13. Quality and usefulness of homework assignments 03000 2.00
14. Quality and usefulness of lab assignments 02000 2.00
15. How do you rate the textbook and/or other reference material 03000 2.00
16. Did you feel the exams/tests were fair? 11100 2.00

Spring 00 (CRN 64383 concurrent with section 64266) 21 respondents

  Question   1     2     3     4     5   Mean
1. Course objectives clearly outlined and met 164100 1.29
2. Basis for grading defined at the beginning of course 133500 1.62
3. Instructor's command of the subject matter 192000 1.10
4. Instructor's preparation for class 191100 1.14
5. Instructor starts/stops class on time 173100 1.24
6. Instructor's ability to communicate 156300 1.29
7. Instructor's ability and willingness to answer questions 201000 1.05
8. Instructor presents examples/clarifications not in text 153200 1.35
9. Instructor's availability (office hours) 125100 1.39
10. Overall performance of instructor 146000 1.30
11. Rate/compare this class with other CS classes 59300 1.88
12. Structure and class organization 99200 1.65
13. Quality and usefulness of homework assignments 146000 1.30
14. Quality and usefulness of lab assignments 135100 1.37
15. How do you rate the textbook and/or other reference material 86410 1.89
16. Did you feel the exams/tests were fair? 107310 1.76

Spring 01 (CRNs 60703, 64775, 65319)

The majority of these evaluation have been lost. The Computer Science Department "sincerely apologizes" for the incident.

Fall 01 (CRN 10714) 7 respondents

  Question   1     2     3     4     5   Mean
1. Course objectives clearly outlined and met 610001.14
2. Basis for grading defined at the beginning of course 610001.14
3. Instructor's command of the subject matter 610001.14
4. Instructor's preparation for class 610001.14
5. Instructor starts/stops class on time 700001.00
6. Instructor's ability to communicate 340001.57
7. Instructor's ability and willingness to answer questions 700001.00
8. Instructor presents examples/clarifications not in text 520001.28
9. Instructor's availability (office hours) 420001.33
10. Overall performance of instructor 520001.28
11. Rate/compare this class with other CS classes 430001.42
12. Structure and class organization 520001.28
13. Quality and usefulness of homework assignments 520001.28
14. Quality and usefulness of lab assignments 420001.33
15. How do you rate the textbook and/or other reference material 313002.00
16. Did you feel the exams/tests were fair? 321102.00

Fall 01 (CRNs 15562, 10730, 14697)

My evaluations of this course have been mixed with the evalutions of a better instructor of another course. I cannot take credit for the results. Thus these evaluations are not reported. The Computer Science Department "is very sorry" for the incident.

Last Updated: Mon Jul 22 16:30:55 PDT 2002