Teaching Analysis Poll Carol A. Hurney, Biology Nancy Harris, Computer Science

Your Professor What helps your learning? Professors anecdotes & style of teaching (not talking down to us) (4) Fair grading Throws out questions that 50% of the class gets wrong Provides incentives to participate (post-its) (5) willing to explain answers to any questions we have (2) Clicker questions (7) Review sessions before exams (9) What hinders your learning? sometimes can talk quickly and advance through slides too fast (8) Sometimes she goes off topic (3) he doesn't stress the important facts on the slides What suggestions do you have to improve learning? slow down (5) make the exam more than just 25 multiple choice questions more clicker questions modeled after test questions (5) make sure the review is geared towards the test (a lot on the test that wasn't mentioned in the review) (3)

Studying & PowerPoints What helps your learning? PowerPoint’s are clear and easy to understand (16) What hinders your learning? No powerpoints before class (15) Powerpoints don’t have all of the information she discusses (2) abbreviations on the slides cause confusion What suggestions do you have to improve learning? Post powerpoints before class (12) What are you doing to improve learning? Taking notes and reviewing powerpoints (12) What are you doing to hinder learning? Not taking enough notes (5) Don’t always review notes (ppts) as much as we should (3) What could you be doing to improve learning? Take really good notes (3) Study notes and ppts after class (13) Compare notes with each other (4)

Case Studies & Textbooks What helps your learning? Case studies and real life examples (13) What hinders your learning? The fact that there is no textbook (5) What suggestions do you have to improve learning? Take advantage of the textbook (1) put the page numbers from our book that correlate with our slides in the power point What are you doing to improve learning? Rewatch posted youtube videos (3) Some of us read the optional textbook as reinforcement (3) What are you doing to hinder learning? Don’t read or have the text book (but not required) (6) Not reading the text (2) What could you be doing to improve learning? Read the text more (2)

Class Atmosphere What helps your learning? light atmosphere & makes learning fun (3) What hinders your learning? large class size (5) People have side conversations which is very distracting & rude (facebook, texting) (4) A lot of unnecessary and repetitive questions from other students that break up the flow and waste time ** What suggestions do you have to improve learning? better policy on responding to questions that have already been answered three times but the student did not hear because they were not paying attention provide more than one section so that the class size is smaller (3) What are you doing to improve learning? listening attentively (5) answering questions in class Asking questions in class (3) What are you doing to hinder learning? don't focus 100% (zoning, texting, side conversations) (5) Don’t participate actively in class discussions Don't ask enough relevant questions (3) What could you be doing to improve learning? participate and be more engaged in class (5) ask more questions and seek clarification (2)

Attendance (Fridays) What hinders your learning? Stating that this class is "optional", especially Fridays no attendance policy What are you doing to improve learning? attending class regularly (16) What are you doing to hinder learning? not attending class regularly, especially Fridays (10) What could you be doing to improve learning? come to class on friday although given the impression its optional (7) We need to be more motivated to go to class even though it is our only MWF course

Miscellaneous comments What helps your learning? Media support package What hinders your learning? Not enough background information for non-majors taking the class What suggestions do you have to improve learning? What are you doing to improve learning? What are you doing to hinder learning? What could you be doing to improve learning?