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Systems Biology 2011, KMG060

Your own effort

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

18 svarande

At most 15 hours/week»		9		50%
Around 20 hours/week»		5		27%
Around 25 hours/week»		2		11%
Around 30 hours/week»		1		5%
At least 35 hours/week»		1		5%

Genomsnitt: 1.88

- There did not seem to be any reason to spend more time on the course.» (At most 15 hours/week)

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

18 svarande

0%»		0		0%
25%»		0		0%
50%»		0		0%
75%»		5		27%
100%»		13		72%

Genomsnitt: 4.72

- more than 75%. » (75%)
- Some examples are interesting, but some are really far from my field.» (75%)
- Since a lot of the exam was based on different kinds of calculations, I think that there definitely ought to be some kind of exercises other than the computer exercises or at least calculation examples in the lectures in order to teach the students how to solve them.» (100%)

Goals and goal fulfilment

3. How understandable are the course goals?

I have not seen/read the goals»		1		5%
The goals are difficult to understand»		0		0%
The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer»		9		50%
The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn»		8		44%

Genomsnitt: 3.33

- They describe it clearly, unfortunately they left out the part where they include the "by hand" calculations..» (The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn)
- AS I had already taken metabolic engineering and large scale genomics classes.Felt most of them are repeated.» (The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn)

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

16 svarande

No, the goals are set too low»		1		6%
Yes, the goals seem reasonable»		14		87%
No, the goals are set too high»		1		6%

Genomsnitt: 2

- But it does not seem like the course aims to fulfill the goals.» (Yes, the goals seem reasonable)

Teaching and course administration

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

Small extent»		1		5%
Some extent»		7		38%
Large extent»		6		33%
Great extent»		4		22%

Genomsnitt: 2.72

- the lecture are sometimes hard to understand at first,but after the experiment session,things go better.» (Some extent)
- There was quite a big difference in the structure of the lectures given by the different lectures.» (Some extent)
- What was discussed in class was not examined» (Some extent)
- Since the recommended course literature was not of that much relevance for the course I would say that the lecture slides and the exercises was the only course material useful for the course.» (Great extent)

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

Small extent»		7		38%
Some extent»		5		27%
Large extent»		6		33%
Great extent»		0		0%

Genomsnitt: 1.94

- Since the recommended course literature was not of that much relevance for the course I would say that the lecture slides and the exercises was the only course material useful for the course.» (Small extent)
- I strongly advice you to skip the book next year. I think the book was a joke and since we are in our fourth or fifth year it was way to simple and it did not focus on facts. It talks about making beer when explaining microarrays!!! Also the book costs over 600 kr which was a huge waste of money!!» (Small extent)
- To be honest, the book was rubbish. In one chapter there was a case-study where you were supposed to imagine you were a student who was trying to brew beer ... and then there was the example of the yeast cells riding on the back of a deer who stopped to feed in a clearing. It was a little bit like a childrens" story, but about systems biology. Though the chapters from the other books that were posted on the homepage were quite good. It was also very good that you could find articles/literature to each lecture posted on the homepage.» (Small extent)
- Köpte inte boken då jag hörde att den var oanvändbar. Hörde sedan samma dag som tentan av en person att boken verkligen inte gav någonting.» (Some extent)
- The course book is useless, i felt wasted 579kr on a story book,and the handouts given by the teacher can be clearer when explain some principles.» (Large extent)

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

Very badly»		0		0%
Rather badly»		0		0%
Rather well»		9		52%
Very well»		8		47%

Genomsnitt: 3.47

- The course homepage was continuously updated, although some lecture slides were not displayed there before the start of the lectures, which would have been nice. Tobias did a very good job maintaining the course.» (Rather well)
- It would be prefferable to have the schedual synced with time edit from the start» (Rather well)

Lectures

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

Matrisfråga

- Tobias really contributes a lot to the experiment session and he is extremely paitient with our "stupid" questions. Tack så mycket!»
- Sergio"s lectures would be much better if he learned how to use the blackboards in a more efficient way, e.g. use all the boards available and not only use 2 of 6, try to make the handwriting more readable (like a greater distinction between his 1"s and 2"s). »
- Sergios lectures were in no way structured. He jumped up and down and from side to side of the board writing where he pleased. Very difficult to understand what formulas were actually important.»
- Sergios föreläsningar gav inte alls mycket, han borde strukturera om dem med slides istället likt de andra föreläsningarna.»
- I think it would be much easier to keep in mind "what is going on" also when you talked about more detailed examples, if you would stress the assumptions made, what the differences between the methods are and if these differences arise from the limitations in the methods or if we actually want to gain a sowewhat different information. To state the initial- and boundary conditions so to say.. About Intawat, I do not wish to insult and be mean. He was good at assisting the excersizes but he is not very pedagogic as a lecturer. Not all the things he says "are easy", are infact easy the first time you encounter them. It is also hard to follow "what the point is" and this I think could be better if the things above were regarded.»

Jens Nielsen
18 svarande

1 (bad)»		0		0%
2»		1		5%
3»		1		5%
4»		7		38%
5 (very good)»		9		50%
No opinion»		0

Genomsnitt: 4.33

Sergio Bordel Velasco
18 svarande

1 (bad)»		3		16%
2»		4		22%
3»		7		38%
4»		2		11%
5 (very good)»		2		11%
No opinion»		0

Genomsnitt: 2.77

Intawat Nookaew
18 svarande

1 (bad)»		0		0%
2»		3		16%
3»		5		27%
4»		5		27%
5 (very good)»		5		27%
No opinion»		0

Genomsnitt: 3.66

Tobias Österlund
18 svarande

1 (bad)»		0		0%
2»		0		0%
3»		0		0%
4»		5		27%
5 (very good)»		13		72%
No opinion»		0

Genomsnitt: 4.72

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

Small extent»		1		6%
Some extent»		8		53%
Large extent»		5		33%
Great extent»		1		6%
I didn"t read the learning objectives for the lectures.»		3

Genomsnitt: 2.4

- As I said before there should really be more emphasis put on the calculations part of the course since that was what a large part of the exam assessed.» (Some extent)
- First time I have seen this, actually very good.» (Some extent)

Exercises

10. How did you find the computer exercises?

Very poor»		0		0%
Rather poor»		1		5%
Rather good»		6		33%
Very good»		9		50%
Excellent»		2		11%

Genomsnitt: 3.66

- As stated in the question above i would have liked a quick summary of the objectives of the study, maybe compared to the previous ones (for example: this we do when we want to know this/ have this kind of data, whereas the previous excercise gave this information using that kind of data)» (Rather poor)
- Most of the handouts were easy to follow, which made it easy to focus on the theory behind the questions.» (Rather good)
- Although, the latter ones seemed not to improve the learning of the parts of the course, but rather to teach us how to use specific matlab (or other) programs... irrelevant» (Rather good)
- They were good,gave a deaper insight to what was taught in class.» (Very good)
- Except for the fact that I didn"t understand a thing about the programming (I"ve never touch a Linux computer before), the objective and the "systems biology" part was very good. The exercises illustrated a lot of the concepts in the lectures.» (Very good)
- Except from the time when the air-con didn"t work. Horrible experience.» (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»		0		0%
Good help»		8		44%
Excellent help»		10		55%
I did not ask for help with the computer exercises»		0

Genomsnitt: 4.55 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

- Mentioned above, Tobias is excellent.» (Excellent help)
- The assistants were able to explain the answers in many ways and gave helpful comments to the hand-ins.» (Excellent help)

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

Small extent»		0		0%
Some extent»		5		27%
Large extent»		8		44%
Great extent»		5		27%

Genomsnitt: 3

- I found it hard to connect the simulations to practical calculations, but I think that they helped in the learning of the theoretical parts of the course.» (Some extent)
- I understand it is hard to do good excersize but I think you have succeeded rather well..» (Large extent)
Genomsnitt totalt för detta stycke: 4.55

Study climate

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

Very poor»		0		0%
Rather poor»		0		0%
Rather good»		6		33%
Very good»		11		61%
I did not seek help»		1		5%

Genomsnitt: 3.72

- Thank you Tobias and Intawat!» (Very good)

14. How was the course workload?

Too low»		1		5%
Low»		1		5%
Adequate»		12		66%
High»		3		16%
Too high»		1		5%

Genomsnitt: 3.11

- Since we were allowed to bring everything for the exam, there was no need to know everything by heart which lessened the workload a bit.» (Adequate)

Exam

15. How was the exam?

Very difficult»		8		44%
Quite difficult»		9		50%
Not so difficult»		1		5%
Easy»		0		0%
Didn"t take the exam»		0

Genomsnitt: 1.61

- In my opinion, a course is supposed to teach the students how to solve the kinds of problem they are presented to in the exam in beforehand. My experience is that that especially the second question in the exam (40% of the total score) was not accounted for in this course.» (Very difficult)
- I think it was a little bit mean to change the concept of the exam without telling us. SInce there were 4 old exams with the same concept i.e. 5 questions, not to difficult or long, this is what will be expected for the exam and will to a large extent affect how one prepare. If I had known that the concept would change I would have studied more and in a different way. » (Very difficult)
- Not at all comparable with earlier exams. The exam questions were very difficult.» (Very difficult)
- Inga andra direktiv gavs så jag förutsatte att denna tenta skulle likna föregående års tentor. Denna var dock till stor del annorlunda, med en monsteruppgift av karraktären "kan du inte allt får du inga poäng"...» (Very difficult)
- I didn"t get it so much with the second question,and I felt pretty unsure about the answer on my answer sheets.» (Quite difficult)
- Did not seem to test what had been learn in the course. » (Quite difficult)
- As the words "Describe the concepts.." are abundant in the aim of the course, I do not find it fair to give a question worth 40p on something that specific (question no.2). This question was based on one outof all the slides handed out during the course. The analysis was not presented thoroughly in the lecture so that means that one would have to learn everything found at the slides much better than presented. I think it is fair to include such question in order to separate out the ones that are worthy of a 5, but as 50p is needed for passing the exam, I do not think the distribution of points was fair. I did not get the impression that we need know all details, and the details we do need to know should therefore atleast be pointed out during the lectures. Furthermore there should be "räknestugor" and excersizes to calculate the things you want us to know!» (Quite difficult)

16. Did you find the exam questions relevant for the over-all content of the course?

Yes»		9		50%
No»		9		50%
Didn"t take the exam»		0

Genomsnitt: 1.5

- But since the questions were so long, the exam did not cover the entire course and failed to be comprehensive» (Yes)
- In my opinion, a course is supposed to teach the students how to solve the kinds of problem they are presented to in the exam in beforehand. My experience is that that especially the second question in the exam (40% of the total score) was not accounted for in this course.» (No)
- What did you guys think when you made the exam? It was a horrible exam» (No)
- See above» (No)
- old exams, lectures and exercises during the course did not prepare us for the exam.» (No)

Summarizing questions

17. What is your general impression of the course?

Poor»		1		5%
Fair»		4		22%
Adequate»		4		22%
Good»		5		27%
Excellent»		4		22%

Genomsnitt: 3.38

- Many lectures contained an extreme amount of slides, which led to an unnecessary teaching speed and the exam did not reflect the course content.» (Poor)
- My opinion is that if you have studied at the Bt program at Chalmers for three years this course has no use in being compulsory as the course is today, it should be optional at most.» (Fair)
- Systems biology seems like an interesting area but I am not too content with how the course was realized.» (Adequate)
- Very interesting» (Good)
- En av de mest intressanta kursera hittills under utbildningen!» (Excellent)

18. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

19. What should definitely be changed to next year?

20. Additional comments