Visa resultat

Data acquisition and handling in systems biology, KMG060

Your own effort

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

35 svarande

At most 15 hours/week»		9		25%
Around 20 hours/week»		10		28%
Around 25 hours/week»		11		31%
Around 30 hours/week»		3		8%
At least 35 hours/week»		2		5%

Genomsnitt: 2.4

- Varying over the time of the course, but approximately ~20 hours per week.» (Around 20 hours/week)
- But this is not nearly enough time if you are supposed to read all the chapters in the books and all the articles.» (Around 25 hours/week)
- it"s hard to do the exercises and finish a report and try to understand the content» (Around 30 hours/week)

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

35 svarande

0%»		0		0%
25%»		0		0%
50%»		3		8%
75%»		14		40%
100%»		18		51%

Genomsnitt: 4.42

- But probably rather 85-90%.» (75%)
- Had another course that collided with this course almost every lecture.» (75%)
- Almost all the lectures and all the exercises.» (75%)
- about 90-95%» (100%)
- almost» (100%)
- while, the techers are not good at teaching actualy» (100%)

Goals and goal fulfilment

3. How understandable are the course goals?

I have not seen/read the goals»		0		0%
The goals are difficult to understand»		6		17%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»		16		45%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»		13		37%

Genomsnitt: 3.2

- Some of the goals are unspecified, like "Describe the concepts of proteome analysis". How much are we supposed to learn about proteome analysis? There were no guidlines in the slides what was important and not.» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- I did not pay much attention to the course goals.» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- Good with aims to each lecture but they are very general when looking closer at them, and not so easy to use when studying for the exam.» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- and the teching in classes are not so much effective» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- This is especially important as there are no previous exams in this course. They could be more specific.» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- Very good with goals on every lecture but they are pretty difficult to interpret and do not help that much when you try to study for the exam.» (The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer)
- I think the title of course is Data acquisition and handling in systems biology but in my idea the main part of the course was on handling part I think the Data acquisition should be more fulfilled,also you should care about the fact that many of your goals are issued for systems biology student in other courses then you can just study our program and make your goals more lighter and letting to go in depth in specific parts.» (The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn)

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

35 svarande

No, the goals are set too low»		0		0%
Yes, the goals seem reasonable»		26		74%
No, the goals are set too high»		9		25%

Genomsnitt: 2.25

- Most the goals are reasonable but at the biotechnology programme we have not written computer programmes scince we were in 1:st grade. This made some of the exercises hard to follow. There are also as said above hard to understand from the slides what is important in the course and not. » (Yes, the goals seem reasonable)
- Maybe.» (Yes, the goals seem reasonable)
- Probably good, if the goals were clearer.» (Yes, the goals seem reasonable)
- yes, but I think this course should clear the end student population with more paying attention to systems biology students» (Yes, the goals seem reasonable)
- Some parts are difficult for the students to get all the goals.» (No, the goals are set too high)

Teaching and course administration

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

Small extent»		2		5%
Some extent»		17		48%
Large extent»		11		31%
Great extent»		5		14%

Genomsnitt: 2.54

- Computer exercises were good, but not the lectures» (Small extent)
- clearer expression and better organision of the teching material should be done» (Small extent)
- The lectures have in almost all cases been extremely chaotic, with more than 130 slides in some lectures, it has not been possible to understand and look at the slide, write comments and listen before the teacher 10 slides further. Fewer slides with more careful explanations would improve the learning, and also more text on each slide, a picture does not say so much afterwards if you have not had time to take notes during the lectures. » (Some extent)
- Explanation is not clear and not enough» (Some extent)
- The teaching has been generally good, but in some cases I felt that I didn"t really learn any techniques but just read alot of cases. Could be more focus on actual math and less on case studies.» (Some extent)
- The course contents is so vast that this does not really matter as,it is highly impossible to absorb so much knowledge in such a short span,specially when the background is not bioinformatics.» (Some extent)
- I ask myself what I have learned and don"t really know the answer. The course maybe could focus more on concrete subjects rather than tons of examples...» (Some extent)
- Very much depending on the teacher. Jens" lectures are great, while some of the other teachers" lectures have been less valuable.» (Large extent)

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

Small extent»		7		20%
Some extent»		14		40%
Large extent»		11		31%
Great extent»		3		8%

Genomsnitt: 2.28

- can"t understand the book. the slide use for studying doesn"t contain much detail (explanations) as most of them are graphs which make it quiet difficult to learn or even understand.» (Small extent)
- Campbell"s book is totally about different things and contains only very small ammount of needed info. Another book is to hard for understanding for people with biological background, it contains only technical stuff like equations and graphs without appropriate explanation» (Small extent)
- I have not used the course literature.» (Small extent)
- I don"t think the books given in the course are very good. But the articles posted on the web page is a good resource for further learning.» (Some extent)
- One of the course literature felt irrelevant, couldn"t relate the chapters to the lecture topics. I mean the book which was not green =) (soory I dont remember the name of the book).» (Some extent)
- the book is hard to through. not attractive at all» (Some extent)
- The Palsson book is good, the other book is interesting but not so much help. I used internet resources a lot throughout the course.» (Some extent)
- The textbooks have been of quite good quality but together with all the articles, the amount of literature has been very high and it has been difficult to read all of it and understand what of it is more important than others.» (Large extent)

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

Very badly»		0		0%
Rather badly»		0		0%
Rather well»		18		51%
Very well»		17		48%

Genomsnitt: 3.48

- Would be even better if lecture presentations were posted before the lectures. VERY good web page, with lots of information. Good job here!» (Rather well)
- It is good to have the schedual, the lecture rooms and the handouts on the same homepage. To bad not all the teachers could provide their ppt before their lecture, it is hard to follow the lecture then.» (Rather well)
- It would have been good to be able to print the pdf before the lectures. » (Rather well)
- there is not enough information in some of the handouts and just with some pictures we should find our questions.» (Rather well)
- the best coursepage i´,ve seen so far during my 4 years at chalmers. Excellent with aims, learing outcomes, that you can download pdf, references etc.» (Very well)
- Well-organized coursepage. One good thing would be to make sure that all the PowerPoints are on the course webpage before the lecture.» (Very well)
- Jens Nielsen is very good Professor and researcher. He with lectures he provides us research Paprs to creat our scientific thinking.» (Very well)
- Exceptionally well working webiste.» (Very well)
- The home page is very clear and it"s easy to find the right hand outs for each lecture etc. It would have been good if the hand outs were out before each lecture though! » (Very well)
- I like the webpage! Brilliant and well done!» (Very well)

Lectures

8. How good were the lectures by the different teachers?

Matrisfråga

- Sergio"s lectures gets a bit too mathematical, losing the connection with biology.»
- Jens: Good speaker but had far too many slides on his lectures. There was trouble to find the important parts of the lecture among all the slides. Narrow it down and think about what you want the students to remember when the lecture is over and talk about that. Wanwipa: seems nervous when she lecture. Had trouble to understand what she was saying. Intawat: Moved slowly forward so I could understand. Pointed out the important parts of the lecture. Marija: Did not put up her lecture notes on the homepage before the lecture which made the lecture hard to follow. Sergio: I only attended 1 of his lectures but in that one I did not understand very much.»
- Jens uses too many slides. Less slides would be prefered and talk more about each slide. Also godd to have some more text that explains all diagrams. »
- Jens : You have to cut of much of the material in your PPT. Looking at a PPT which is 120 slides are just confusing. Sergio: Have to clearify more about what he is talking about, and why Topology is important.»
- Intawat treated us as if we were stupid both at the lecture and in the exercise. We´,re all adults, not children. I was so angry when I left. I did not have enough background knowledge for sergios lecture.»
- sergios part was hard to understand.»
- My "no opinion" is due to absence at those lectures»
- Too many slides made it boring and impossible to listen for 90 minutes and get an overview of all the information.»
- Jens is generally a very good teacher, but he needs to manage his time a bit better, it would probably be a good idea to shorten some of the lectures and focus on some parts in more detail. »
- It was difficult to understand what was important to learn. It would have been easier with somewhat less slides, they were way too many! Especially on Jens lectures since he just passed a lot of them without comments anyway. Also good to think of when adding figures etc is to have them large enough, many times the figures were too small too be seen and some more explanation would have been good for tables and graphs. »
- It"s not the lecturers themselfs but rather the content of the lecture that I don"t like. It would be nice with a more clear learning outcome and lectures that focus on more confined parts.»

Jens Nielsen
35 svarande

1 (bad)»		0		0%
2»		3		8%
3»		9		26%
4»		10		29%
5 (very good)»		12		35%
No opinion»		1

Genomsnitt: 3.91

Wanwipa Vongsagnak
35 svarande

1 (bad)»		0		0%
2»		4		11%
3»		8		22%
4»		15		42%
5 (very good)»		8		22%
No opinion»		0

Genomsnitt: 3.77

Intawat Nookaew
35 svarande

1 (bad)»		1		3%
2»		2		6%
3»		9		27%
4»		14		42%
5 (very good)»		7		21%
No opinion»		2

Genomsnitt: 3.72

Marija Cvijovic
35 svarande

1 (bad)»		0		0%
2»		6		18%
3»		7		21%
4»		14		42%
5 (very good)»		6		18%
No opinion»		2

Genomsnitt: 3.6

Sergio Bordel Velasco
35 svarande

1 (bad)»		0		0%
2»		17		50%
3»		12		35%
4»		5		14%
5 (very good)»		0		0%
No opinion»		1

Genomsnitt: 2.64

9. To what extent did the learning objectives for each lecture help you to know what was relevant?

Small extent»		3		8%
Some extent»		17		48%
Large extent»		12		34%
Great extent»		3		8%
I didn"t read the learning objectives for the lectures.»		0

Genomsnitt: 2.42

- it felt like the learning objectives covered everything.» (Small extent)
- As mentioned above, it was good that they existed but they could have been much clearer.» (Small extent)
- The concept with learning objectives for each lecture is good, but narrow the objectives down. Nobody gets encurraged by an objective like "Describe the concepts of proteome analysis". That would include the whole proteomics lecture right?» (Some extent)
- I didn"t read the learning objectives for all lectures, read the objectives for some lectures.» (Some extent)
- Some learning outcomes were a bit unspecific. A list with terms that you should learn is really good.» (Some extent)
- Some where very good but some covered a to large topic.» (Some extent)
- Very good with goals on every lecture but they are pretty difficult to interpret and do not help that much when you try to study for the exam.» (Some extent)
- They were essential in my studies for the exam, however they are a bit broad in some cases. It would be nice to know what methods we should put extra emphasis on for example.» (Large extent)

Exercises

10. How did you find the computer exercises?

Very poor»		0		0%
Rather poor»		5		14%
Rather good»		15		42%
Very good»		12		34%
Excellent»		3		8%

Genomsnitt: 3.37

- I learned some things when you finally had understood the exercise, but most of the exercises it just took me the first half of the time to understand what to do. I think I had too little background knowledge to be able to apply my knowledges on the exercises.» (Rather poor)
- The questions you handed in to Tobias were good but the programming part didn"t give me anything. I had no clue what I was doing or why in MATLAB and other similar programs. » (Rather poor)
- There were some computer exercises that were well coordinated (Marija"s exercise was very good) but overall the quality was not very good. Poorly phrased or at some times complete lack of instructions made it very hard to complete the exercises without help. Either improve instructions or improve the amount of teachers/student. I am generally not a fan of "recipe exercises", I like to figure some out by my own, but some exercises were extremely hard to follow.» (Rather poor)
- The idea of exercises is good, I did still learn from them, but it was too much trouble with the computers for really having time to focus on the real ecercise. I think it would be better to work on ordinary Windows-computers. It would also be good to be given ready made matlab programs where we just have to change small parts. This was sometimes done after a while, which was a plus! » (Rather poor)
- Tobias is very helpful and gives good explanations when there is something I don"t understand. The computers are extremely slow which makes the exercises rather long. It is boring to have to wait 15 minutes to download the files of the exercise. At least I am not used to work with Linux, so that is also a difficulty.» (Rather good)
- The exercise did help to some extent to understand the lecture. But it is quiet difficult for those who doesn"t have any background of using the program (eg. mathlab,etc). Don"t know how and where to start.» (Rather good)
- It would be better, if the exercise manual were more informative, with how to do the exercise.» (Rather good)
- sometimes we got the code needed to solve the excersice. then you dont understand much. maybe we could get a paper after excersice with a summary of the different techniques we used: what are used for, advantages, limitations etc.» (Rather good)
- need more and clearer introduction» (Rather good)
- The labs are good, but some more time could be scheduled for many of them.» (Very good)
- It is a bit difficult to deal with mathlab for who do not have background or familiar with this program.» (Very good)
- The computers were really slow. But the teachers were good, especially Tobias and you did not have to wait a long time for help, which was good. » (Very good)
- I liked them but sometimes the questions where impossible to interpret. This was the best part of the course! The exercise with Marija was best performed!» (Very good)

11. Did you get enough help with computer exercises from the exercise teacher?

No help at all»		0		0%
Too little help»		0		0%
OK help»		4		11%
Good help»		10		29%
Excellent help»		20		58%
I did not ask for help with the computer exercises»		0

Genomsnitt: 4.47 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

- I and my studymate tried to figure most of it out on our own. The help we got was more on the level of understanding the actual exercise than any programming issues.» (OK help)
- In the end, I could figure it out.» (OK help)
- the people in the class was too much,exercise teacher was good but of course he could not attend every body well because class was too crowded » (Good help)
- Some times there was a lot of waiting but all props to the teachers they had a lot to do and did a really good job! » (Good help)
- The help is excellent, and Tobias has been brilliant in explaining and taking his time. However, the group is a little bit to large to be handled by only two teachers.» (Excellent help)
- As said above: Tobias is very helpful and gives good explanations when there is something I don"t understand.» (Excellent help)
- Tobias was the best!» (Excellent help)
- Tobias is great, but I think all had too much for one person to handle.» (Excellent help)
- They helped me as much as they could when I asked, and they were always very helpful.» (Excellent help)
- A big plus for Tobias!» (Excellent help)

12. To what extent did the computer exercises help you learn the course?

Small extent»		2		5%
Some extent»		13		38%
Large extent»		9		26%
Great extent»		10		29%

Genomsnitt: 2.79

- I didn"t learn to work with programs just to interpret data.» (Small extent)
- It was a bit difficult sometimes to understand how the lectures and exercises belong toghether. » (Some extent)
- Since I don"t really know what to learn it is difficult to answer but I definitely learned some stuff from the exercises that I can use!» (Some extent)
- like I said above the questions helped a lot!» (Large extent)
- Practice is good.» (Great extent)
- Tobias explained a lot...» (Great extent)
- Computer exercises are obviously of great importance in a course like this. Especially Sergio"s part was very emphasized by the computer exercises.» (Great extent)
Genomsnitt totalt för detta stycke: 4.47

Study climate

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

Very poor»		0		0%
Rather poor»		1		2%
Rather good»		11		32%
Very good»		20		58%
I did not seek help»		2		5%

Genomsnitt: 3.67

- Tobias has always been helpful when I have questions. Most of the teachers in the lecures has so many slides that they skip a large amount of them to finish in time. Therefore there has been no time for questions in the lectures.» (Rather good)
- Asked Tobias and Marija for help when answering the computer questions and they were very helpful! » (Very good)

14. How was the course workload?

Too low»		0		0%
Low»		1		2%
Adequate»		15		44%
High»		11		32%
Too high»		7		20%

Genomsnitt: 3.7

- Personally I thought it was rather low, but I"m a quick writer so the reports weren"t that time consuming for me. In the end it was rather good as I took another course with a heavy work load.» (Low)
- Too much literature» (High)
- There are extreamly much to read, 2 books and a pile of articles. And on top of that the exercises with reports every week. » (Too high)

Summarizing questions

15. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		3		8%
Fair»		7		20%
Adequate»		11		31%
Good»		12		34%
Excellent»		2		5%

Genomsnitt: 3.08

- I feel I have not understood anything in this course.» (Poor)
- i don"t understand what was taught in the class (don"t understand this subject) not because the instructor couldn"t explain well but because of the subject itself. its too much and difficult to understand. It will be best if the instructor could slow down the teaching abit and make it simpler.» (Poor)
- Too many portions» (Poor)
- Very hard to understand what is the important things in the course. » (Fair)
- It"s a course in development. The direction seems good, but it needs quite some tweaking.» (Adequate)
- A very ambitious course but I think the content should be looked over once more in order to make it more specific.» (Adequate)
- A good start for a new course. There is some room for improvement, but overall my impressions are good.» (Good)
- very interesting» (Good)

16. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

17. What should definitely be changed to next year?

18. Additional comments