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Source coding, SSY140, VT2008

Status: Avslutad
Öppen för svar: 2008-03-05 - 2008-03-19
Antal svar: 42
Procent av deltagarna som svarat: 80%
Kontaktperson: Madeleine Persson»


Your own effort

1. How many hours per week did you spend on this course?

We mean total time, that is, it comprises the time you spent in class and the time you spent on your own work. Try to estimate the average time over the entire study period.

42 svarande

At most 15 hours/week»15 35%
Around 20 hours/week»15 35%
Around 25 hours/week»10 23%
Around 30 hours/week»2 4%
At least 35 hours/week»0 0%

Genomsnitt: 1.97

- The projects took a lot of time.» (At most 15 hours/week)
- Projects took some time» (At most 15 hours/week)
- Some work should be added to the course» (At most 15 hours/week)
- Most time was spent working on the projects.» (Around 20 hours/week)
- most of this was due to the projects» (Around 20 hours/week)

2. How large part of the teaching offered did you attend?

42 svarande

0%»0 0%
25%»2 4%
50%»4 9%
75%»19 45%
100%»17 40%

Genomsnitt: 4.21

- The pace at lectures has been very low, making it feel like a waste of time to attend full lectures. Perhaps not all questions need to be answered if the majority of the class still follows?» (25%)
- The exercises are really messy since the teachers don"t get the students respect. Hard to hear and hard to concentrate since a lot of people are speaking.» (75%)
- I think it is better to give more examples than the theory.» (75%)
- Missed one lecture due to other courses project dead line and one exercise because of Charm» (75%)
- got to chalmers two weeks late (exchange student)» (75%)
- about 95%» (100%)
- I think Daniel did a good job. It wasn"t perfect but it can"t be easy too take over the lecturing of a course as a PhD. He really tried hard to make sure that we understood.» (100%)


Goals and goal fulfilment

The course syllabus states the course goals in terms of learning outcomes, i.e., knowledge, skills and attitudes to be acquired by the student during the course.

3. How understandable are the course goals?

42 svarande

I have not seen/read the goals»10 23%
The goals are difficult to understand»3 7%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»17 40%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»12 28%

Genomsnitt: 2.73

- Linear prediction should be taught more» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- The course was not that application oriented.» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)

4. Are the goals reasonable considering your background and the number of credits?

Answer this this question and the succeeding one, only if you do know the course goals.

37 svarande

No, the goals are set too low»2 5%
Yes, the goals seem reasonable»34 91%
No, the goals are set too high»1 2%

Genomsnitt: 1.97

- The goals for a communication engineer is somehow vague.» (?)
- Maybe a bit too low goals.» (Yes, the goals seem reasonable)

5. Did the examination assess whether you have reached the goals?

40 svarande

No, not at all»0 0%
To some extent»11 27%
Yes, definitely»10 25%
I don"t know/have not been examined yet»19 47%

Genomsnitt: 3.2

- it tested difficult concepts » (To some extent)
- Dont think the exam was about what we talked about on the lecture. The questions were not clear and they want to have long explenations for every answer, I dont think that is good.» (To some extent)
- The examination can give me a clear goal for how to study in next step.» (Yes, definitely)
- but the mid-quarter exam was somehow reasonable despite being a little bit tricky» (I don"t know/have not been examined yet)
- exams are just a performance which depends on one days fitness among other things, therefore not very reliable assessments» (I don"t know/have not been examined yet)
- At least the oral examinations made sure that we had understood the goals.» (I don"t know/have not been examined yet)


Teaching and course administration

6. To what extent has the teaching been of help for your learning?

42 svarande

Small extent»3 7%
Some extent»18 42%
Large extent»21 50%
Great extent»0 0%

Genomsnitt: 2.42

- the teacher didnt explain in a good way. i read from the book and understood some stuff in the exercise sessions. Teaching assistant Ali was very good and explained very well. the other teaching assistant was not good and also had the same problem as the teacher , he could not explain stuff though he tried his best. he just solved the exercises.» (Small extent)
- The handwriting of Haiying Cao should be improved!!» (Some extent)
- difficulties were mainly because of a very swedish english of the lecturer» (Some extent)
- i cant follow the teacher» (Some extent)
- After change in teaching the quality improved.» (Some extent)
- Since I attended most of the lectures and the exercises it has helped me to reach the goals.» (Large extent)
- The combination of lecture and exercise sessions allows to get the whole glimpse of the course. However, the theory part could be a bit larger for the lecture sessions, even though time restrains won"t allow it to be as extent as anyone would like.» (Large extent)

7. What do you think of the lectures before the mid-quarter course evaluation?

- Slow»
- Too many derivations.»
- Pretty bad. But good considering hes only stand-in!»
- The teacher is too worried that everyone is not following. Therefor everything takes too much time and it becomes a bit frustrating having to wait all the time.»
- quite clear and easy»
- somehow,It is not very clear to understand the content of the lecture, but generally it is good»
- good,i think i can understant, but actrully there is no help for my mid-exam.»
- not so clear, the lectures were kind of boring because lack of clear examples. The examples on the slides suck!! Like Huffman code part~»
- good»
- Somewhat good»
- it"s fine and can be improved in such aspect: content in exercise is better involed in the previous class. »
- I think they were very clear on pretty much everything.»
- May be the time is to some extent limited but the combination of before and after mid-quarter exam is prefered»
- Really confusing.........»
- too fast. hard to follow»
- since there were no major problems, nothing needed to be changed»
- to much information on the lectures»
- The lectures were very helpful and gave the essential knwledge for the exam.»
- Ok..I could not able to understand the concept behind the various algorithms.more importance was given to entropies and other stuff»
- They were OK»
- it was quite unclear sometimes what the teacher was going to reach and it was just talking.»
- the load is quite ok. and I can understand most of the material. »
- Uptill mid-quarter the course was easy.»
- very poor.»
- Good.»
- lectures are quite clear and good to understand.»
- They were ok.»
- The lectures" slides were easy to follow, but they needed an in-depth review after class, although the blackboard explanations and examples were helpful. The explanations given by the teacher were clear.»
- i cant follow the teacher»
- the lectures were good sometimes the lecturer seems to delve into meritsdemerits of a scheme earlier before telling the scheme itself.»
- good»
- they have Poor quality»
- They were fine. Could cover more material though.»
- a bit confusing due to the math, but one could understand the material after having looked through it again»
- Totally ambiguous and hard to understand»

8. What do you think of the lectures after the mid-quarter course evaluation?

- Slow»
- Content was easily understandable because the teacher spent more time on examples which is good.»
- Try to improve your teaching tempo, we are not supposed to understand every single detail at each lesson, maybe wrap up last lecture at the beginning of the next.»
- I don"t preffer to see examples first and then hear the theory behind them. I liked it better in the first part of the course.»
- Much better! However, Daniel still spends too much time questioning the class weather he should re-explain the last part or not. Too slow that is. »
- I think the lectures has been OK throughout the course.»
- really difficult to understand and doing some exercices»
- It is good enough»
- so so»
- a little bit better in examples»
- better»
- Better»
- it"s good but can be state more clearly, because the lossy part is more difficult than the lossless one. It"s better to have more examples such as how the algrithm to be implement.»
- I didn"t notice any significant change, probably because I was happy with them before and after the mid-quarter course evaluation.»
- May be the time is to some extent limited but the combination of before and after mid-quarter exam is prefered»
- Get better by more examples...»
- better than before.»
- the same as now, the performance of the teachers was constant»
- Better but still a bit to much of information, think more energy should be put into examples andexplaining them instead of to much theory that one could be easier to understand when you know how it works according to calclatd examples.»
- They fullfiled the program.»
- The lectures are some what improved after the mid course evaluation.Doing more numerical examples.Giving more importance on the concept rather than mathematical formulas.»
- Just as good as before.»
- it was more motivating and made students to follow the idea.»
- After mid-quarter the course was tough. and teacher tried to teach well.»
- still very poor. there was a lot of time wasted in getting acknowledgment from the class. the teacher tried his best but i guess he cannot explain things in a good way.»
- Good.»
- some of them are too short, not enough explanation on the lectures. as a result, readers may get confuse if they follow only to the lectures. sometimes, they have only a figure but no or not enough description for that to understand it.»
- Better in some ways but also worse. It was a bit irritating when the lecturer asked if everybody had understood and waited for a long time for the answer. Sure it"s good to ask sometimes but I think it"s better to just continue, and if there are parts that are unclear it"s the students responsibility to ask.»
- The teacher"s explanations became clearer as so did the material in the slides. Also, the new order for the teaching material in each lecture session helped to understand the basics of the course.»
- i cant follow the teacher»
- the lectures improved further after that»
- better»
- Acceptable quality but still it can be improved»
- They were a bit too slow.»
- better»
- Improved a bit in terms of understanding.»

9. To what extent has the the course literature and other material been of help for your learning?

42 svarande

Small extent»0 0%
Some extent»12 28%
Large extent»24 57%
Great extent»6 14%

Genomsnitt: 2.85

- The book is good.» (Some extent)
- The course book is not that good~~~~quite confused in Chapter 9» (Some extent)
- i don"t think the course book is good enough, espeically for projects. many things are not said clearly according to the book» (Some extent)
- book is not good.» (Some extent)
- Good to get exercises and especially the answers to the exersices» (Large extent)
- Sometimes the book is not very clear... might be possible to find a better book.» (Large extent)
- The book was good and covered what we needed.» (Large extent)
- It should be better to provide exercise sollutions in great details not just final answer» (Large extent)
- Excellent literature! Easy and fast to read, yet with all details you need.» (Great extent)
- Even though the lectures" slides and the exercise sessions provide enough knowledge for passing the exam, they also serve as a good basis for the book, which greatly helps in expanding the basic knowledge of the subject.» (Great extent)

10. How well did the course administration, web page, handouts etc work?

42 svarande

Very badly»0 0%
Rather badly»3 7%
Rather well»28 66%
Very well»11 26%

Genomsnitt: 3.19

- BLACKBOARD :)» (Rather badly)
- Remember to put up the lecture slides» (Rather well)
- The web page was good exept for the fact that shedule was not the same as in time edit all the time.» (Rather well)
- good enough» (Rather well)
- quite in time in refreshing» (Rather well)
- more solution of/for the exercises would have been good!» (Rather well)
- The schedule however was not synchronized with the TimeEdit which resulted in people showing up for a class that did not exist.» (Rather well)
- The midterm exam result announced soon.» (Rather well)
- All solutions should be posted on the web.» (Rather well)
- Handouts were always in place and in time. Also, if any mistakes were found in the handouts, this was quickly noticed to the students, making it faster to continue working with the right material.» (Very well)


Study climate

11. How were the opportunities for asking questions and getting help?

42 svarande

Very poor»0 0%
Rather poor»3 7%
Rather good»12 28%
Very good»23 54%
I did not seek help»4 9%

Genomsnitt: 3.66

- the teacher always can"t understand the question,can"t answer me in point» (Rather poor)
- Too good! People ask to many questions during lectures and exercises... makes me want to leave since everything takes sooooooo looooong time.» (Very good)
- Cao Haiying can give us a good explain to the questions» (Very good)
- great, every question was dealt with and mostly solved right away» (Very good)
- The staff was helpful.» (Very good)
- Even if I didn"t need to ask for help, teachers were always willing to help us students in anytime.» (I did not seek help)

12. How well has cooperation between you and your fellow students worked?

42 svarande

Very poorly»0 0%
Rather poorly»1 2%
Rather well»20 47%
Very well»21 50%
I did not seek cooperation»0 0%

Genomsnitt: 3.47

- But since no report is needed, not so much cooperation as expected.» (Rather well)
- Since we actually had the opportunity to choose team members, I knew who I would work with, which has both pros and cons.» (Rather well)
- Depends on the group, wide range of knowledge in the com. eng. program.» (Very well)

13. How was the course workload?

42 svarande

Too low»0 0%
Low»5 11%
Adequate»27 64%
High»9 21%
Too high»1 2%

Genomsnitt: 3.14

- Could be more.» (Low)
- Should add some homework assignments» (Low)
- It is adequate enough to understand the goal of this course» (Adequate)
- The course could have included some more material but it wasn"t entirely too low either.» (Adequate)
- Pretty good actually.» (Adequate)
- The course workload was enough to get the basics of the course and put them in practice.» (Adequate)
- The projects took a lot of time, perhaps especially since we did not know matlab in beforehand.» (High)
- On the border to "too high" for the projects.» (High)
- too many parts in project2» (High)
- The projects took more time than called for. Most of the time was spent debugging algorithms, not for understanding them.» (High)
- large project and we are not getting any grade in return for the effort and time we spent on the projects» (High)
- the projects are very timeconsuming and dont give any credits to the exam. I think it shold have given some points» (High)
- Hi refering to the fact that one do not get any credits by doing the projects» (High)
- I think the workload of the projectswas to high, concerning that there where only a pass or fail grading system. The time spent on those projects to fullfill goals to only get a pass was set to hihg i think » (Too high)

14. How was the total workload this study period?

42 svarande

Too low»0 0%
Low»4 9%
Adequate»20 47%
High»15 35%
Too high»3 7%

Genomsnitt: 3.4

- Could be made more difficult.» (Low)
- Our project course also takes a lot of time.» (Too high)


Summarizing questions

15. What is your general impression of the course?

42 svarande

Poor»1 2%
Fair»4 9%
Adequate»14 33%
Good»19 45%
Excellent»4 9%

Genomsnitt: 3.5

- i had high expectation but the course was very basic and simple.» (Poor)
- the teacher is not good » (Fair)
- Could definitely have been better but it was not bad.» (Fair)
- Lecture is good, tutorial could be better, explanations, the way things were presented on the blackboard were not very properly done. There could be a lot of improvements» (Adequate)
- Good contents and an interesting topic, but the tempo was low at lectures and the workload was high with the projects.» (Good)
- Interesting course. » (Good)
- The exams both were difficult to me despite the good result at midterm» (Good)

16. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

- The course book.»
- The Course Book. Its easily understandable.»
- The open book exam.»
- The projects. They are a great tool when it comes to learning.»
- The projects.»
- course and exercices in lossless compression»
- The projects were a great opportunity for learning by doing»
- TA»
- The midterm exam»
- Project,which helps to understand the lecture a lot.»
- The projects»
- project is the best way to make student understand the knowledge.»
- the course material should be preserved»
- Ali as teacher assistant.... and the course book»
- additional material (slides)»
- Exercises»
- Projects should be preserved or even expanded on more of the alghoritms.»
- The lectures and exercises are important.»
- the projects were good.»
- nothing.»
- The projects.»
- The projects.»
- The projects should remain, as they are a perfect way not only to work with Matlab, but also to assure the theory of the course.»
- mid quarter exam»
- book»
- Textbook and exercises»
- tutorial improvement, clear handwriting, more orgaized illustration of task solutions»

17. What should definitely be changed to next year?

- Mid quarter exam should not be too difficult.»
- Increase the lecture tempo a bit, try to use metaphores for for example entropy and the diffrent dimensions in vector quantization. Compare with "intro to digicom"-course and the "stocastic process"- course.»
- Perhaps the projects could be counted into the final grade in some way, since so much time is spent working with the them.»
- The asian teaching assistant. He is too fast and talks blury.»
- nothing»
- The code that was handed out was poorly documented»
- I think the teacher of the lecture should be improved, for instance, His oral English is not very good, and the slide is not very clear to show the point which we should grasp.»
- the way of teaching»
- The teacher, send us someone more passionate, please.»
- The content of the lecture should change a little bit.»
- The projects should have a grade that affects the course grade, not just pass or fail.»
- it"s better to make student to understand the knowledge, not pay much time to calculate it in class.»
- The good will displayed by Daniel!»
- the teaching method should be changed there is a mis-communication problem between the students and the lecturer»
- The method of teaching in the lectures should improve.»
- course book!»
- solutions for every exercise lecture»
- They way the lectures are being hold, and the projects (not necessarilly the content) in the way that they should correspond more to the final grade»
- I can not see such a thing.»
- The projects should be revised. They are (ofcourse) very practical, but they are not very useful for gaining the theoretical understanding needed for the final exam.»
- teacher should be more confident.»
- everything. the teacher, the book, improve the course contents, include some more mathematical theory. »
- More time dedicated to solving problems on your own during the excercises.»
- The lectures.»
- A larger importance of theory in lecture sessions, so the theory explained in exercise ones will be less and give more importance to apply the theory to practical exercises.»
- the course should include few real world standards as well»
- way of grading»
- The lecture can be improved. It is better to first state what is the main concept of course, and then present some practical examples and finally go to the mathematical stuff»
- Should add some homework.»

18. Additional comments

- There should also be a seminar/Visit to industry. It will give motivation.»
- improve the oral english...»
- On the whole, this course is good.»
- By the way, I think Ali and Haiying"s exercise is a good way to understand the points got in the lecture.»
- I am very satisfied about this course.»
- No comments...»
- some time teacher is confuse and it appears as that the teacher is looking at the slides first time. he should prepare more for the lectures.»
- There should be some points for projects because they take too much time to finish. However they are good projects because I had got more understanding during I was working on them.»
- As I said before, the staff did a good job considering the situation.»
- Thank you all (teaching staff) for your great effort. You all have nice treatment to student.»
- Cover more material.»
- well synchronized lecture and book»


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