We ask for opinions, suggestions, and other types of feedback from students using online forms, interviews and focus groups. This page is all about summarizing the information we learn in these ways.

To all students who have helped by giving us some of their time and thoughtful comments:
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Actions of the EOS-SEI project are based partly on this feedback.
NOTE that all information via this page is completely anonymous.

1) End Of Term (EOT) Survey Results

Some results are compiled only and still need analysis. Other results documents include some analysis, from which it is possible to make recommendations about changes to the way the course is run.

• eosc111
• eosc112 Spring 2008
• eosc114
• Fall 2007
• Spring 2008 (including some comparison between Fall and Spring EOT results).
• eosc116 Spring 2008
• eosc310 Spring 2008
• eosc350 Fall 2007
    

2) Demographic information about 1st yr courses

• eosc1xx for UBC academic year 2006W
• eosc1xx for UBC academic year 2007W
• eosc31x for UBC academic year 2006W
• eosc31x for UBC academic year 2007W
• Students taking multiple 1xx & 31x courses inr UBC academic years 2006W and 2007W
    

3) Attitude Survey

See Attitudes Survey - results summary section.

4) TAs, ECAC, and others

• ECAC (Earth Course Assistance Centre data), July '08, including usage statistics for two terms and TA's experiences.
• EOS students; re. experiences with first year eosc courses; graph and open responses listed from 22 respondants.
    

5) Interviews and Focus Groups

• Interviews and focus groups (conducted by J. Rhajiak) about first year service courses (eosc110, 111, 112, 114, 116). Data are compiled and coded but have yet to be analyzed.
• Interviews of ten instructors of 1xx and 31x courses. Summary transcripts with 227 comments were coded using two schemes. Here are tables identifying the how many comments from each instructor (anonymous) were coded into each category by number and percent.
• eosc212 (TA only to date.)
• eosc210
• eosc220
• eosc221

6) Feedback about learning activities

• After presentations with peer evaluations, EOSC212, October 2009. PDF.
• From students to students regarding abstract writing and question posing. PDF.

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