FUI's course evaluation

INF4130 - Algoritmer: Design og effektivitet

Assessment:

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How do you rate the course in general? How do you rate the level of the course? How do you rate the work load in proportion to the number of credits achieved? The quality of the lectures? The lectures' relevance and usefulness in regard to relaying what you need to learn? The quality of the group tuition as a whole? In what degree does group tuition and weekly assignments give you practical skills and the possibility to make use of the theory at hand? Are the curriculum and learning outcomes of the course sufficiently defined? How do you rate the course material used (text book etc.)? How do you rate the difficulty level of the obligatory assignments? What is your opinion in regard to the number of obligatory assignments? How do you rate the difficulty level of the final examination? Show all Hide

Summary:

Many of the students rate the quality of the lectures as Not that good (40 %) or Not good (40 %). Meanwhile, the group tuition recieves mostly favorable critique.

Many of the students rate the course as Difficult (53 %) or Too difficult (27 %). A part of the students (38 %) want more group tuition on blackboard, and some (19 %) want less obligatory assignments.

Some of hte students are critical to the fact that the curriculum is not possible to find in a printed version and only as an PDF.

Quotes:

[On lectures:] Needs structure and better flow.

As a student with little mathematical background, it was quite hard to follow most of the lectures given. In some cases it felt like the course teachers spent a lot of time explaining simple mathematical concepts, then rushing through more advanced concepts later in the lecture, simply saying “This should be self explanatory”.

Too many different course teachers, each with their own slides and method of teaching.

Very swingy lectures, sometimes very good and relevant, otherwise sometimes focuses all to much on small irrelevant details. Some lecture notes are clearly dated, and would profit from reworking.

The number of assignments are ok, but the size and time required for each one is a bit much for a 10pt course.

Based on the lack of quality of the lectures, parts of the assignment was hard to solve. And the feedback was really poor…. the “OK” “good” was the only feedback. Had to email and ask for a proper explanation of what was wrong with one of the tasks. […]

The book can only be found as a SCANNED pdf. How about maybe looking for a book that can actually be found? […]

About the course evaluation

The course evaluation is done by students in FUI (Fagutvalget ved Institutt for informatikk), and is based on questionnaires made at the end of each semester.