SEOI Evaluations for GEOL 101.02

SEOI Summary Evalution, Spring 2007

• Intellectual challenge: 4.36 [SD= 0.68]
• Amount of your effort needed to succeed: 4.33 [SD=0.68]
• Your involvment: 4.22 [SD=0.76]
  
• Course as a whole: 3.78 [SD=0.93]
  
• Instructor's teaching effectiveness: 4.00 [SD=01.10]

The following is copied verbatim from student SEOI evaluations. All comments are completely unfiltered.

What aspects of the teaching or content of this course do you feel were especially good?

• Rubin's knowledge of the subject & his passion for it; helped get me interested in geology. He never made a class day boring with all his stories of his own experience in the field.
• It was very nice to have the visual aspect of the powerpoint to back up the lecture. It was also very helpful that all the powerpoints were available online.
• I liked how much thought he put into class. Very funny
• Powerpoint slides, & illustrations
• I enjoyed all the visual examples.
• Pretty hard class for an intro 101, but well taught and Charlie made it interesting.
• The curve was good as well as all the guides and powerpoints online.
• I love having the power points online.
• The review of information before a test.
• Class time always used efficiently - good examples were usually given
• Charlie was very enthusiastic about what he taught and it made me want to listen to what he had to say.
• The presentation
• Power points were very helpful. But to fast talking and tests were extremly difficult
• I really enjoyed this class. Best one I had in my freshman year.
• I like how well his powerpoints were organized and I enjoyed how they were easy to acess off of his webpage.
• Great pictures of examples
• Very thorough and objectivevery helpful to have access to powerpoint presentations
• The straight forwardness, the instructor's enthusiasm and explanations

What changes could be made to improve learning in this course?

• Slow down a bit more
• Lectures were given very quickly and speech was sometimes almost too fast to understand.
• Your lessons are very good, but you need to slow down and let the students get all the info. from the slides.
• slow down just a bit per slide
• The grading in this class was to hard for a 100 level class
• IF he Spent less time PRaising himself and more time explaining things I might have learned somethine
• Tests too hard. More quizes.
• Slow down just a little bit
• More graded assignments in case tests aren't your thing.
• Slow down!
• Slow down
• Less topics oer test; maybe more tests and quizzes using much less material.
• - If he slow it down when doing his powerpoint presentation.
• Talk slower
• more tests
• Use time in lecture more efficiently, update the online powerpoints, less side stories