At the end of every semester, students fill out evaluations for the courses they have taken. These pages present the results of these evaluations. They are generated automatically by a program written in perl, and take into account only numerical data, so they should present a non-biased summary of the evaluation results.
The Course Evaluation Guide (CEG) is student-run and student-edited. It is not an official MIT publication. These pages present an impartial, computer-generated summary of the course evaluation data. And unlike the CEG, they do not include student comments.
The purpose of the three pie charts at the top of each subject's page is to give a quick, basic idea of how the subject rated in teaching quality, difficulty, and amount of time spent on the class. The rating for Quality of Teaching is calculated by taking the average of all the students' responses to the "Overall rating" question in the Quality of Teaching category. The rating for Difficulty is calculated by taking the average of the scores of the following questions: exams are too few/many, exams are too easy/difficult, the pace of the subject was too slow/fast, text was too easy/difficult, problem sets were too few/many, problem sets were too easy/difficult, text few/many, writing short/long, and writing few/many. The time spent was calculated by adding the average responses for hours in class per week, hours in lab per week, and hours on homework per week.
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These pages and the program that generates them were designed and written by Jennifer Grucza <jgrucza@mit.edu> for her UROP with Team Athena.
