I love reading other lecturer's blogs -- it's the shared experience, I suppose. However I've been "off blog" for over a month and missed jill's post about student feedback questionnaires. For comparison, my modules are ¼ of a semester so maybe students should expect to spend 9 hours per week ... my University suggests something like 13 hours (maybe we have a longer working week <grin>) Feedback for my two modules is as follows:
| Hours | Web Technologies | Databases and the Web |
|---|---|---|
| Over 10 | 10% | 7% |
| 7 to 10 | 17% | 30% |
| 4 to 6 | 39% | 52% |
| 1 to 3 | 29% | 11% |
| None | 0% | 0% |
| No response | 5% | 0% |
| Responses: | 76 | 27 |
Independent Study is in addition to the 4 hours per week of lecture and lab sessions. So, like Jill, there are two students putting in more than the equivalent of a full working week on the 3rd year module and 8 on the 2nd year module -- well done them! The module evaluation questionnaire is anonymous (I suspect like Jill's) which is a good and bad thing in some ways ... it would be interesting to know whether the extra hours have a positive benefit and also how truthful the students are in their self-evaluation! (E.g. their attendance rates usually seem to be higher than my records ... even with their friends signing them in.)
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