TEACHER ASSESSMENT REPORT SYSTEM (TEACHER ONLY)

STUDENTS' RATINGS ON TEACHER

Faculty Member:	KAN MIN-YEN
Department:	COMPUTER SCIENCE	Academic Year:	2007/2008
Faculty:	SCHOOL OF COMPUTING	Semester:	1

Module:	PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY - CS1101Z
Activity Type:	LECTURE

Class Size / Response Size / Response Rate :

- / 37 / -

Qn	Items Evaluated	Fac. Member Avg Score	Fac. Member Avg Score Std. Dev	Dept Avg Score	Fac. Avg Score
				(a) (b)	(c) (d)

1	The teacher has enhanced my thinking ability.	3.649	0.789	3.923 ( 3.998)	3.902 ( 3.921)
2	The teacher provides timely and useful feedback.	3.838	0.727	3.895 ( 3.942)	3.899 ( 3.898)
3	The teacher is approachable for consultation.	4.135	0.673	3.912 ( 3.921)	3.921 ( 3.887)
4	The teacher has helped me develop relevant research skills.*	NA	NA	NA	NA
5	The teacher has increased my interest in the subject.	3.378	0.982	3.783 ( 3.819)	3.780 ( 3.775)
6	The teacher has helped me acquire valuable/relevant knowledge in the field.	3.811	0.811	3.946 ( 3.995)	3.957 ( 3.979)
7	The teacher has helped me understand complex ideas.	3.811	0.908	3.854 ( 3.923)	3.842 ( 3.870)
	Average of Qn 1-7**	3.770	0.844	3.886 ( 3.933)	3.884 ( 3.888)
8	Overall the teacher is effective.	3.973	0.687	3.987 ( 4.075)	3.981 ( 4.021)

* This includes skills in research methodology, research problems/questions, literature search/evaluation, oral presentation and manuscript preparation.

** If Qn 4 is NA, it will not be included in the computation of average score (Average of Qn 1-7).

Frequency Distribution of responses for Qn 8

Nos. of Respondents(% of Respondents)

	\|
ITEM\SCORE	\|	5	4	3	2	1
	\|
Self	\|	6 (16.22%)	26 (70.27%)	3 (8.11%)	2 (5.41%)	0 (.00%)
Teachers teaching all Modules of the Same Activity Type (Lecture), at the same level within Department	\|	706 (29.66%)	1254 (52.69%)	338 (14.20%)	57 (2.39%)	25 (1.05%)
Teachers teaching all Modules of the Same Activity Type (Lecture), at the same level within Faculty	\|	902 (25.82%)	1903 (54.46%)	575 (16.46%)	87 (2.49%)	27 (.77%)

Note:
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.
4. Dept Avg Score :
(a) the mean score of same activity type (Lecture) within the department.
(b) the mean score of same activity type (Lecture), at the same module level ( level 1000 ) within the department.
5. Fac. Avg Score :
(c) the mean score of same activity type (Lecture) within the faculty.
(d) the mean score of same activity type (Lecture), at the same module level ( level 1000 ) within the faculty.

STUDENTS' COMMENTS ON TEACHER

Faculty Member:	KAN MIN-YEN
Department:	COMPUTER SCIENCE	Academic Year:	2007/2008
Faculty:	SCHOOL OF COMPUTING	Semester:	1

Module:	PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY - CS1101Z
Activity Type:	LECTURE

Q9	What are the teacher's strengths?
1.	Clear language and tries to interact with the students
2.	Friendly and approachable
3.	He is humourous.
4.	Has the ability to explain a problem area in different ways until the student is able to understand the concept relevent to the module.
5.	vary careful in teaching and consulting
6.	The teacher has patience to clarify doubts and questions.
7.	he is knowleagable
8.	he is willing to spend extra time for the lecture.
9.	he is good at explaining complex problems to students
10.	He is able to explain difficult ideas into simple parts for us to digest slowly. Makes a lot of good effort to provide lecture slides.
11.	he is willing to clear everybody's doubts and he does that job very effectivey.he is friendly and a excellent teacher too.
12.	he is approachable for consultation and explains the lesson thoroughly
13.	Patient with students in one-to-one tutoring. Readily available for consultation. Able to explain the concepts clearly.
14.	Nice and detailed teaching with some interactive classes so that the classes will not get boring.
15.	A nice person to approach for a year one student. Patient.
16.	Patience
17.	Knowledgeable.Able to solve complex questions. Helpful and approachable, willing to help students.
18.	He is very very patient and very very approachable.
19.	Willing to slowly talk the student through a problem regardless of difficulty of question. Tries his best to interact with class although students were not always responsive.
20.	approachable, knowledgeable and creative
21.	Explains concepts clearly. Reaches out to students who need help.
22.	Clear and concise points are being taught to us. Made things easier for us to understand.
23.	He gives us small exercises in lecture and walks around to see if anyone needs assistance.
24.	clear explaination during lectures
25.	he's friendly.
26.	He tries to be interactive by helping us visualise some of the concepts with models or real life examples. He is also very eager to help and explains relatively well when a question is asked. He will be willing to stay back and help the students when he gives us additional questions to practice on, and clear our doubts. He is a nice lecturer.
27.	Friendly, approachable, patient, understand and of course knowledgable.
28.	Manage to tackle hard questions by going it through with us step-by-step clearly and slowly.
29.	- Good english - Enthusiastic - Good way of teaching
30.	He explains everything carefully.
31.	He is very friendly
32.	Very approachable. Able to encourage students to try out exercises. Manges to show us the step-by-step way in working on a problem.
33.	Makes us think a lot before giving the solution.
34.	nil

Q10	What improvements would you suggest to the teacher?
1.	Slow down the lecture and cancel the scary lab assignments
2.	Lessons are too lengthy. Give more breaks in between as the attention span is not long enough.
3.	Nothing.
4.	NIL
5.	give out more exercises
6.	I just hope that the teacher goes through more exam questions.
7.	he should explain in more simple terms to people like us who are new in computing
8.	he should speak louder
9.	Maybe we can have more practice on labs..
10.	n.a
11.	make lessons more interesting so that the students will not drift off halfway through the lecture
12.	Should give more in-class lab exercises with more personalized help. Should be aware of the class atmosphere (whether students are gradually losing attention) and improvise break times or interesting activities to stir their interest and keep them mentally stimulated.
13.	give more examples for students to practise during classes
14.	Keep up the good work
15.	Be more engaging.
16.	Maybe he can teach at a slower pace and make the lecture more interesting as this the 3h lecture could be quite dry.
17.	One of the best teachers that I have come across
18.	Give more breaks during lectures. Teaching through 60+ slides at one shot is taxing on the lecturer himself and students would not be able to absorb so much at one go
19.	enable more hands-on during lessons
20.	Be a bit less draggy. Sometimes there are some uneccessary content being taught for too long which resulted in the cramping of the more important content at the last hour of the lecture.
21.	Sometimes he goes too fast, so he should pace for the slower students.
22.	give us more examples to try
23.	speak louder and explain things more clearly.
24.	His teaching speed should decrease abit. There should be more interaction in the class.
25.	Sometimes, he goes through the notes in quite a fast place and it would be difficult to catch and understand what idea he is trying to convey, but most of the time it is alright.
26.	Slow down during lecture. Perhaps just concentrate on main points of each topic (or talk more about the main points). I think it is not necessary to talk about every single thing of each chapter since lecture time is usually insufficient. Overall, it is a pleasant experience being his student (:
27.	Sometimes he might teach too fast on tough topics/areas without realising it.
28.	- The teacher should be more strict
29.	Nothing.
30.	nil
31.	Provide students with a clearer idea of the problem and the algo to solve it.
32.	None at all
33.	method of instruction and pronunciation should be improved. speak louder if possible.

STUDENTS' NOMINATIONS FOR BEST TEACHING

Faculty Member:	KAN MIN-YEN
Department:	COMPUTER SCIENCE	Academic Year:	2007/2008
Faculty:	SCHOOL OF COMPUTING	Semester:	1

Module Code:

CS1101Z

No of Nominations:

1.	inspires the interest in me for continuing with this computing course
2.	he is excellent in teaching and ready to clear everybody's doubts. he helps us solve problems and encourage us to put a bit more effort in the subject
3.	Very nice, patient and friendly. Tries to make classes interesting and gives detailed explanations when questions are asked.
4.	He is responsible and try to make things easy for the students. Very friendly and I enjoy his lectures. Provided us valuable tips and feedbacks.
5.	HE is very very very approachable and patient. Often stays back after lecture to help weaker students like me.
6.	He is very patient with the students and spare no effort in teaching everything that is necessary to the students and sometimes even more. He tries his best to vary teaching methods, such as getting the class to go out of the labs during lecture for some interaction in order to teach certain programming concepts. Patiently explains and takes the student through the programming problems to help them solve the problem.
7.	Dr min rocks. He is approachable, nice and patient to us!! Very good for a lecturer! Very friendly!