STUDENTS' RATINGS ON INSTRUCTOR/TUTOR
Faculty Member:  LEONG WING LUP, BEN
Department:  COMPUTER SCIENCE Academic Year:  2014/2015
Faculty:  SCHOOL OF COMPUTING Semester:  3
Module:PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY - CS1010FC
Activity Type:LECTURE
Class Size/Response Size/Response Rate :45  /  27  /  60%
Contact Session/Teaching Hour :15  /  30
QnItems EvaluatedFac. Member Avg ScoreFac. Member Avg Score Std. Dev
1The Instructor has enhanced my thinking ability. 4.741 0.086
2The Instructor provided timely and useful feedback. 4.556 0.097
3The Instructor has increased my interest in the subject. 4.630 0.132
4Overall effectiveness of the Instructor. 4.667 0.092


QN/SCORE54321
Qn 1 to Qn 3 Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
Qn 4 Excellent Good Average Below Average Poor


Notes:
1. A 5-point scale is used for the scores. The higher the score, the better the rating.
2. Fac. Member Avg Score: The mean of all the scores for each question for the faculty member.
3. Fac. Member Avg Score Std. Dev: A measure of the range of variability. It measures the extent to which a faculty member's Average Score differs from all the scores in the faculty member's evaluation. The smaller the standard deviation, the greater the robustness of the number given as average.

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION OF RESPONSES ON INSTRUCTOR/TUTOR
Faculty Member:  LEONG WING LUP, BEN
Department:  COMPUTER SCIENCE Academic Year:  2014/2015
Faculty:  SCHOOL OF COMPUTING Semester:  3
Module:PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY - CS1010FC
Activity Type:LECTURE


Frequency Distribution of responses (Qn 1: The Instructor has enhanced my thinking ability.)

Nos. of Respondents(% of Respondents)

|

ITEM\SCORE

|

5

4

 

2

1

|

Self

|

20 (74.07%)

7 (25.93%)

 

0 (0%)

0 (0%)


Frequency Distribution of responses (Qn 2: The Instructor provided timely and useful feedback.)

Nos. of Respondents(% of Respondents)

|

ITEM\SCORE

|

5

4

 

2

1

|

Self

|

15 (55.56%)

12 (44.44%)

 

0 (0%)

0 (0%)


Frequency Distribution of responses (Qn 3: The Instructor has increased my interest in the subject.)

Nos. of Respondents(% of Respondents)

|

ITEM\SCORE

|

5

4

 

2

1

|

Self

|

19 (70.37%)

7 (25.93%)

 

1 (3.7%)

0 (0%)


Frequency Distribution of responses (Qn 4: Overall effectiveness of the Instructor.)

Nos. of Respondents(% of Respondents)

|

ITEM\SCORE

|

5

4

3

2

1

|

Self

|

18 (66.67%)

9 (33.33%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

STUDENTS' COMMENTS ON INSTRUCTOR/TUTOR
Faculty Member:  LEONG WING LUP, BEN
Department:  COMPUTER SCIENCE Academic Year:  2014/2015
Faculty:  SCHOOL OF COMPUTING Semester:  3
Module:PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY - CS1010FC
Activity Type:LECTURE

What are the Instructor's strengths? (19 comments)
1. Able to capture the students' interests, even those not in the same faculty of study. Challenging coursework which definitely ensures that students have a strong grasp of basic programming methodology.

2. Engages students well, shows concern for struggling group, conducts entertaining recitation sessions

3. Engaging, able to rouse interest

4. He is a true master in the subject matter and hence is an inspiration to his students. He has also obviously put in a lot of effort into developing the Coursemology platform which is the main driver of learning in this module.

5. He is able to teach programming such that we are able to understand the topic more easily. He is able to break a challenging problem into simpler steps.

6. He is an extremely down to earth person. He can explain programming to the student with no prior background knowledge in programming. He is extremely mindful of the student's presence and can make his lessons extremely lively. He has taught me an important life lesson in managing complexities and I truely agree with it. I can think more linearly now and I have seen my problem solving skills greatly enhance my maturity.

7. He is very good at explaining the concepts and engaging the class!

8. He knows how to engage the students in a fun way, making his lectures interesting. Nevertheless, the lecture videos still managed to deliver content effective.

9. He makes his lectures interesting to listen, both online and live. Gamification of online component(coursemology) encourages me to do better for my online submissions. His enthusiasm for programming is contagious.

10. Humourous and makes class fun. Knowledgeable and experienced in programming

11. Humourous, Motivating

12. Prof Ben is a caring and responsible educator who always want the best for his students. He tries his best to make the class entertaining so that the students can learn better.

13. Prof Ben is able to effectively and efficiently teach us the concepts of the module while we unknowningly start to understand the contents more and more.

14. Prof Ben is cool. Prof Ben is awesome. Prof Ben has a wealth of experience in teaching n00bs like us :D The class is extremely well paced.

15. Prof Ben's greatest strength as an educator is his very visible and infectious enthusiasm for CS. He is able to share his knowledge in CS and thought processes for solving problems very effectively. Prof Ben also possesses an energetic and charismatic personality which enables him to build rapport with the class for a better learning experience. He is also extremely generous with advice outside of teaching the module, from offering personal perspectives on life to advising the students on how to make the most out of their university experience.

16. Prof is a very dedicated teacher who tries his best in cultivating good habits in his students. He makes learning difficult concepts fun and interesting and he always emphasized on the rational behind each concepts.

17. Prof. Leong's lecture notes are thorough yet very easy to understand even for one who previously had very little knowledge in programming. On top of that, he not only created online exercises that allow us to learn through as we do, he also runs through face-to-face recitations in an engaging manner, giving surprisingly simple solutions to complicated problems, lets us try variants of the given problems, and even throws in some 'fun' here and there. He also helps clarify our issues and difficulties with the course.

18. engaging. Has a high understanding of the subject. Good at understanding how students comprehend each problem.

19. teaches us in a fun and exciting manner Overall a very, very good professor


What improvements would you suggest to the Instructor? (16 comments)
1. -

2. Continue to persevere with his methods.

3. Focus more on making the students understand the topics.

4. Grading for Practical Exam has many double/triple penalizations, and penalization(which was reduced, but still exists) for not factoring bad input data type into consideration. Median was 14.5/30.0, perhaps grading stringency should be reviewed slightly. However, reduction of penalizations might also lead to students who do not fully grasp concept, so I guess a balance has to be struck.

5. He could teach at a slightly slower pace to accommodate the weaker students.

6. I struggled to pick up C from just listening to the lectures and doing the missions. Maybe more step-by-step instructions like when starting Python would be better.

7. I think he is very realistic. This can be a bit of stress to the poor students, who can tend to view his comments as being negative. Sometimes, he can be a bit too fast and this means we will have to keep up with his pace to follow his lesson fully.

8. Keep it up!

9. Maybe slow down a little on important concepts, because students who are relatively weaker as compared to others will need more time to digest the information about certain important concepts highlighted in class

10. NA

11. NA

12. None, I am very satisfied to be his student.

13. None.

14. Prof Ben can try to slow down his pace of teaching so that students will be able to grasp the concepts better.

15. Teach more modules :)

16. Watch Avengers: Age of Ultron Stay awesome.

STUDENTS' RATINGS ON INSTRUCTOR/TUTOR
Faculty Member:  LEONG WING LUP, BEN
Department:  COMPUTER SCIENCE Academic Year:  2014/2015
Faculty:  SCHOOL OF COMPUTING Semester:  3
Module:PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY - CS1010FC
Activity Type:TUTORIAL
Class Size/Response Size/Response Rate :44  /  24  /  54.55%
Contact Session/Teaching Hour :20  /  20
QnItems EvaluatedFac. Member Avg ScoreFac. Member Avg Score Std. Dev
1The Tutor has enhanced my thinking ability. 4.667 0.098
2The Tutor provided timely and useful feedback. 4.667 0.098
3The Tutor has increased my interest in the subject. 4.708 0.095
4Overall effectiveness of the Tutor. 4.792 0.085


QN/SCORE54321
Qn 1 to Qn 3 Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree
Qn 4 Excellent Good Average Below Average Poor


Notes:
1. A 5-point scale is used for the scores. The higher the score, the better the rating.
2. Fac. Member Avg Score: The mean of all the scores for each question for the faculty member.
3. Fac. Member Avg Score Std. Dev: A measure of the range of variability. It measures the extent to which a faculty member's Average Score differs from all the scores in the faculty member's evaluation. The smaller the standard deviation, the greater the robustness of the number given as average.

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION OF RESPONSES ON INSTRUCTOR/TUTOR
Faculty Member:  LEONG WING LUP, BEN
Department:  COMPUTER SCIENCE Academic Year:  2014/2015
Faculty:  SCHOOL OF COMPUTING Semester:  3
Module:PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY - CS1010FC
Activity Type:TUTORIAL


Frequency Distribution of responses (Qn 1: The Tutor has enhanced my thinking ability.)

Nos. of Respondents(% of Respondents)

|

ITEM\SCORE

|

5

4

 

2

1

|

Self

|

16 (66.67%)

8 (33.33%)

 

0 (0%)

0 (0%)


Frequency Distribution of responses (Qn 2: The Tutor provided timely and useful feedback.)

Nos. of Respondents(% of Respondents)

|

ITEM\SCORE

|

5

4

 

2

1

|

Self

|

16 (66.67%)

8 (33.33%)

 

0 (0%)

0 (0%)


Frequency Distribution of responses (Qn 3: The Tutor has increased my interest in the subject.)

Nos. of Respondents(% of Respondents)

|

ITEM\SCORE

|

5

4

 

2

1

|

Self

|

17 (70.83%)

7 (29.17%)

 

0 (0%)

0 (0%)


Frequency Distribution of responses (Qn 4: Overall effectiveness of the Tutor.)

Nos. of Respondents(% of Respondents)

|

ITEM\SCORE

|

5

4

3

2

1

|

Self

|

19 (79.17%)

5 (20.83%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

STUDENTS' COMMENTS ON INSTRUCTOR/TUTOR
Faculty Member:  LEONG WING LUP, BEN
Department:  COMPUTER SCIENCE Academic Year:  2014/2015
Faculty:  SCHOOL OF COMPUTING Semester:  3
Module:PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY - CS1010FC
Activity Type:TUTORIAL

What are the Tutor's strengths? (16 comments)
1. -

2. Clear and patient

3. He is able to teach programming such that we are able to understand the topic more easily. He is able to break a challenging problem into simpler steps.

4. He is an extremely down to earth person. He can explain programming to the student with no prior background knowledge in programming. He is extremely mindful of the student's presence and can make his lessons extremely lively. He has taught me an important life lesson in managing complexities and I truely agree with it. I can think more linearly now and I have seen my problem solving skills greatly enhance my maturity. I also feel more secure because he has developed the right support systems in place for the students.

5. He's not exactly the tutor...

6. Humourous and makes class fun. Knowledgeable and experienced in programming

7. Humourous, Motivating

8. NA.

9. Prof Ben is able to effectively and efficiently teach us the concepts of the module while we unknowningly start to understand the contents more and more.

10. Prof Ben's greatest strength as an educator is his very visible and infectious enthusiasm for CS. He is able to share his knowledge in CS and thought processes for solving problems very effectively. Prof Ben also possesses an energetic and charismatic personality which enables him to build rapport with the class for a better learning experience. He is also extremely generous with advice outside of teaching the module, from sharing personal perspectives on life to advising the students on how to make the most out of their university experience.

11. Prof. Leong's lecture notes are thorough yet very easy to understand even for one who previously had very little knowledge in programming. On top of that, he not only created online exercises that allow us to learn through as we do, he also runs through face-to-face recitations in an engaging manner, giving surprisingly simple solutions to complicated problems, lets us try variants of the given problems, and even throws in some 'fun' here and there. He also helps clarify our issues and difficulties with the course.

12. Same as above.

13. Same as instructor feedback

14. Same as mentioned.

15. See Above

16. overall good!


What improvements would you suggest to the Tutor? (14 comments)
1. -

2. Continue to make studying more exciting

3. Focus more on making the students understand the topics.

4. I think he is very realistic. This can be a bit of stress to the poor students, who can tend to view his comments as being negative. Sometimes, he can be a bit too fast and this means we will have to keep up with his pace to follow his lesson fully.

5. Keep it up!

6. NA

7. NA

8. NA.

9. None at all

10. None, I am very satisfied to be his student.

11. None.

12. Same as above.

13. Same as instructor feedback

14. See Above

STUDENTS' NOMINATIONS FOR BEST TEACHING
Faculty Member:  LEONG WING LUP, BEN
Department:  COMPUTER SCIENCE Academic Year:  2014/2015
Faculty:  SCHOOL OF COMPUTING Semester:  3

Module Code:CS1010FCNo of Nominations:18

1.Awesome professor. He constantly provokes me to think beyond in a real-time scenario. More than grades, these are very important. He has a very down to earth personality too which is very helpful for students like me, who are very slow in learning.
2.Boredom can never be an issue with prof ben is around.
3.Great rapport with class and creative delivery of lesson content & assignments
4.He and his tutors put in a lot of work to make the module fun and enriching.
5.He is the epitome of an all-rounded teacher. He has extensive knowledge with regards to this course, being able to answer sometimes 'higher-level' questions that are out-of-syllabus. He is also able to deliver and share his knowledge in a clear and concise manner. Being able to add humour to his teaching is only serves to make him stand out from the rest. HIs lectures and tutorials are never dull. Besides, being the person who created an online learning platform that transforms learning into a 'game', he has truly gone beyond what is required of him as a Professor. This learning platform shows that he is keen and passionate in finding new ways of teaching by tailoring teaching to the current generation of students.
6.He is very friendly and approachable. He teaches very well and try his best to ensure that all the students fully understands how to do a particular programming question.
7.He makes every, I mean every lesson interesting! Also, he really holds educating to his heart. He makes an effort to reach out to every student. Continually encourages student to be consistent. He also includes his life experience and tries to mould every student not only into people who just get good grades but also with the right qualities and habits. He should be a role model for all educators. I would love to be in his lessons again.
8.His mastery and enthusiasm towards Programming rubs off on his students and he is a true inspiration to them. The CS1010FC module has truly sharpened and stretched our minds like never before. Above and beyond that, he also takes the time to share important values with his students and emphasizes the importance of learning how to learn rather than stressing on the actual subject matter himself.
9.Prof Ben is a caring and responsible educator who always want the best for his students. He also tries his best to make the class entertaining so that the students can learn better.
10.Prof Ben is a dedicated teacher who goes the extra mile to create an environment that enhances the online learning experience (e.g. Coursemology). He constantly engages students during lectures and challenges them to actively employ the ideas and concepts taught in class. He is also awesome.
11.Prof Ben is an excellent teacher. He knows exactly how to impart concepts into students' minds. He is clearly very driven. His passion for teaching is evident from his entertaining and informative lectures.
12.Prof Ben's experience in teaching as well as his willingness to provide required and useful materials for helping us better understand the module is very commendable.
13.Professor Ben Leong has the uncanny ability to get his students interested in even the most boring topics.
14.Professor Ben Leong is certainly not your average educator. He goes above and beyond to ensure students are able to grasp concepts. His lectures are interesting and keep students eager to learn more. Furthermore, he provides extra materials to ensure that students are able to have mastery over the languages(programming). He promotes critical thinking and analysis by replying students with rhetorical questions as answers so as to guide them and not simply give out answers. I've enjoyed my time thoroughly in the short span of the iblocs course from professors Ben's intriguing and yet informative lectures. His witty jokes never fail to keep students attentive. For all that he is, I hope to have other opportunities to learn from him. It has been an absolute pleasure having such a great professor. With all that I've already mentioned, I could not hope to find a better professor and I nominate Professor Ben thusly.
15.Very dedicated instructor.
16.Very engaging teacher that is very knowledgeable in his subject. Effective teaching methods.