© Lynn S. Fichter
Mailing Address:
Geology &
Environmental Science
MSC 7703
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Phone Contact:
540.568.6130
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Evolutionary Systems Course Evaluations
Course evaluations from the last time the course was taught. They include three kinds of information. One, Numeric Evaluations with statistics, based on a series of questions. Dirctly below
Two, Extemporaneous Commentary. Free form comments written by students on the back of the evaluation sheets.
Three, Extended Critiques. Answers to the question, "Describe something you learned from this class that has a strong impact on you, or that will have lasting value for you."
Numeric Evaluations - Personal Growth
Question asked was, "How much do you feel you grew in each of these areas from the beginning to the end of the semester?" For "Class Start" and "Change During Class" there was a 1 through 7 scale. Responses are plotted on a graph like that to the right showing interpretations.
Question 1 - Your knowledge and understanding of the great diversity of ideas and world views developed through history to explain how the world works.
Question 2 - Your personal commitment and desire to become more widely read and/or knowledgeable about real world complex systems.
Question 3 - Confidence in your ability to read, comprehend and integrate a diversity of literature and complex ideas.
Question 4 - Your ability to see and argue points of view other than your own, and that you may even disagree with.
Question 5 - Confidence and competence in your intellectual skills.
Numeric Evaluations - Organization and effectiveness of the course
Min 70 Max 100
Avg 87.9 Mode 85
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6. This course was carefully organized, its goals and requirements clearly stated. |
Min 75 Max 98
Avg 88.9 Mode 95
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7. The course lectures, discussions, and experimental labs were well-prepared and presented an organized, concrete, and specific intellectual agenda. |
Min 40 Max 100
Avg 90.5 Mode 95
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8. The course dealt with subjects and issues that I believe are centrally important to my education. |
Min 45 Max 100
Avg 90.7 Mode 95
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9. The course was well balanced, presenting a diversity of view points and opinions. |
Min 45 Max 100
Avg 92.5 Mode 95
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10. Compared to other classes I have taken I feel that the knowledge and skills I have gained during the course were proportional to the effort required; i.e. I gained a lot relative to the effort I was asked to put in. |
Numeric Evaluations - Your Perceptions of the Commitment of the Course Leaders to the Subject and to this Course?
Min 80 Max 100
Avg 96.2 Mode 100
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11. The professors displayed a solid grasp of the subject matter and gave evidence of keeping abreast of advances in human knowledge and understanding. |
Min 85 Max 100
Avg 95.2 Mode 95
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12. This course illustrated the deeper intellectual aspects of human knowledge by demonstrating and/or advocating that knowledge is not sure but uncertain, that scholarship is search, and that doubt and skepticism are the marks of a scholar. |
Min 85 Max 100
Avg 93.8 Mode 95
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13. The professors did more than just teach the subject but demanded of me ultimate seriousness, indeed acted as if the subject was so important for the knowledge, skills and insights I could gain they felt compelled to teach it. |
Min 80 Max 100
Avg 94.4 Mode 95
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14. Because of the interest and methods of teaching the professors had for this course I feel I have begun to understand the deeper aspects of human knowledge, have entered into its logic and sought its meaning, and above all discovered new and different ways of seeing. |
Numeric Evaluations - Your perceptions of how interested the professors were in you in the academic/intellectual community.
Min 90 Max 100
Avg 96.4 Mode 95
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15. Throughout this course I felt (directly or indirectly) that the professors were interested in, and supported and encouraged my growth and learning. |
Min 85 Max 100
Avg 95.2 Mode 95
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16. The professors persuaded and challenged me to learn and understand human knowledge, i.e. the kinds of data used, assumption made, questions asked, answers expected, and the way understanding is arrived at. |
Min 80 Max 100
Avg 91.6 Mode 95
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17. The professors respected my individuality, my personal opinions, and my beliefs. |
Min 90 Max 100
Avg 97.4 Mode 100
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18. The professors persuaded and encouraged students to think, to learn, to struggle to become scholars capable of making individual contributions. |
Numeric Evaluations - Summary Evaluations.
Min 60 Max 100
Avg 93.8 Mode 100
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19. How important has this course been to your intellectual education? |
Min 85 Max 100
Avg 96.2 Mode 100
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20. Summary evaluation of the course? |
Min 55 Max 100
Avg 98.8 Mode 100
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20. Summary evaluation of the professors? |
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