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TKITE 1112-3 Databases, TDA357

Status: Avslutad
Öppen för svar: 2012-03-08 - 2012-06-19
Antal svar: 51
Procent av deltagarna som svarat: 47%
Kontaktperson: Mattias Bingerud»

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.

51 svarande

At most 15 hours/week» 13 25%

Around 20 hours/week» 17 33%

Around 25 hours/week» 16 31%

Around 30 hours/week» 5 9%

At least 35 hours/week» 0 0%

Genomsnitt: 2.25

- Lots of hours when creating the views» (Around 20 hours/week)

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

51 svarande

0%» 3 5%

25%» 4 7%

50%» 6 11%

75%» 14 27%

100%» 24 47%

Genomsnitt: 4.01

- about 10% is more accurate» (0%)
- I could not stand the teacher trying to make everyone that came in late / disturbed the class in any other way to feel embarrassed. "Wow. That"s embarrassing, I do not want to be you right now with the entire class looking at you." When someone got a text.» (25%)
- Always loose intrest about halfway into a course» (50%)
- I went to most lectures but not the exercise sessions» (50%)
- Didn"t have the opportunity to attend all the exercises but those I was on was great!» (75%)
- 95%» (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?

51 svarande

I have not seen/read the goals» 6 11%

The goals are difficult to understand» 0 0%

The goals give some guidance, but could be clearer» 7 13%

The goals clearly describe what I am supposed to learn» 38 74%

Genomsnitt: 3.5

- saw the goals in the beginning and in the end of the course, but didn"t care to much about them» (I have not seen/read the goals)
- as usual, the goals are clear after having done the course, but before not so much. » (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.

46 svarande

No, the goals are set too low» 0 0%

Yes, the goals seem reasonable» 46 100%

No, the goals are set too high» 0 0%

Genomsnitt: 2

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

48 svarande

No, not at all» 0 0%

To some extent» 6 12%

Yes, definitely» 39 81%

I don"t know/have not been examined yet» 3 6%

Genomsnitt: 2.93

- "So, forget you ever heard the name MVDs." from lecture 5 slide 31. I pretty sure I saw this in the exam...(2B?)» (To some extent)
- the exam tested a lot of the things we have done and gave a choice as to the level of difficulty when answering. » (Yes, definitely)
- The exam may even seem to have harder questions than the goal requires...» (Yes, definitely)
- Upplägget på tentan var toppen, så borde fler kurser göra!» (Yes, definitely)

Teaching and course administration

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

51 svarande

Small extent» 3 5%

Some extent» 6 11%

Large extent» 16 31%

Great extent» 26 50%

Genomsnitt: 3.27

- Great slides» (Some extent)
- The teacher in charge as well as the rest of the teachers did a very good job and they were all great at teaching. » (Large extent)
- I knew nothing about this before and the lectures have been very instructive. this course is on my top2 list of all my courses at chalmers when you look at lecture quality and presentation. welldone!» (Great extent)
- The course needs more examples/practice on XML/XPath/XQuery since it"s not in the labs, but there"s questions on the exam about it.» (Great extent)
- niklas is awesome!!! best teacher i had till now..» (Great extent)
- Lektionerna förklarade saker mycket bra, bra också att folk inte drällde in hur som helst när det fanns en lapp på dörren.» (Great extent)
- The lectures were great!» (Great extent)

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

51 svarande

Small extent» 20 39%

Some extent» 15 29%

Large extent» 12 23%

Great extent» 4 7%

Genomsnitt: 2

- never read the book.. » (Small extent)
- I have not used the literature at all, but the Internet in general and the course web page in particular has been of great help.» (Small extent)
- Did not buy the book» (Small extent)
- The lecture slides where great but i didn"t open the book once» (Small extent)
- I didn"t use the book at all.» (Small extent)
- I have done some reading in the book but I probably would be fine without, if I had used the slides and wikipedia more instead» (Some extent)
- The course book was a bit heavy to hold while reading, so I resorted to the lecture slides instead..» (Some extent)
- Lecture slides were very useful» (Some extent)
- I did study the lecture slides but not the book.» (Some extent)
- the online material was good but the book wasn"t that useful. The book is probably good to look for theory in databases. Should mention that the book is optional in the course page.» (Some extent)
- Didn"t open the book, but lectures and labs helped a lot when trying to understand the subject. Also used W3schools a lot.» (Large extent)

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

50 svarande

Very badly» 0 0%

Rather badly» 0 0%

Rather well» 15 30%

Very well» 35 70%

Genomsnitt: 3.7

- Excellent slides as well as posting on the web apge and the google group» (Very well)
- administration, course webpage and speed of correction has been excellent. also, the lab/exercise assistans were very good at answering and discussion problems that came up. good job!» (Very well)
- One of the best course pages I"ve seen because it was simple to find the right info.» (Very well)

Study climate

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

51 svarande

Very poor» 0 0%

Rather poor» 0 0%

Rather good» 9 17%

Very good» 37 72%

I did not seek help» 5 9%

Genomsnitt: 3.92

- The lecturer did ask us many questions during the lectures but it felt like that u almost always was wrong when I answered so I stopped answering.» (Rather good)
- Google group, lab sessions, questioning at lectures and mailing the asistants all went like clockwork» (Very good)
- in lectures, exercises and by email I"ve had many opportunities to ask questions and always got high quality replies in short time. » (Very good)
- interaction with students is at its best.. lecturer and teaching assistants are very friendly and patient in answering question.. » (Very good)
- they were quick to reply» (Very good)

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

51 svarande

Very poorly» 0 0%

Rather poorly» 1 1%

Rather well» 12 23%

Very well» 34 66%

I did not seek cooperation» 4 7%

Genomsnitt: 3.8

- Some miscommunication but otherwise fine» (Rather well)
- we didn"t always agree on how to do stuff but it went well anyway. I worked with a new person so we had to learn to work together, and I think we did so without trouble » (Rather well)
- My lab partner seemed to be occupied with other matters quite often..» (Rather well)

11. How was the course workload?

48 svarande

Too low» 0 0%

Low» 0 0%

Adequate» 27 56%

High» 20 41%

Too high» 1 2%

Genomsnitt: 3.45

- The labs had very different workload. Some took not more than one hour to fulfill, some took over 7 hours!» (?)
- In my opinion there should be more handins or similar. I failed to learn some things such as xml and relational algebra, since it wasn"t on the labs and I focused on them. I didn"t spend a huge amount of time on the course, so I can really see a benefit of increasing the amount of work and including more of those things that were not in the lab. perhaps as separate handins. » (Adequate)
- » (Adequate)
- High as it should be.» (High)
- High but adequate. A bit uneven at times, some assignments required more work than others.» (High)
- A bit uneven. FDs took 1 hour, triggers 10» (High)

12. How was the total workload this study period?

50 svarande

Too low» 0 0%

Low» 1 2%

Adequate» 19 38%

High» 24 48%

Too high» 6 12%

Genomsnitt: 3.7

- Since i took only this course i cant comment much.» (Adequate)
- the total workload was quite big but not really in terms of work but rather because the other course we had was very badly organised and a lot of time wasted there. » (Adequate)
- i have a part time job and "kandidatarbete"» (High)
- I do the bachelor thesis in pararell...» (High)
- The other course took up a lot of time. » (High)
- Bullshit extra tasks in Information Literacy and Injengörskompetens Engleska really screwed up my work pace. Never got into any real flow.» (Too high)

Summarizing questions

13. What is your general impression of the course?

50 svarande

Poor» 1 2%

Fair» 0 0%

Adequate» 1 2%

Good» 18 36%

Excellent» 30 60%

Genomsnitt: 4.52 (bidrar till totalt genomsnitt/jämförelseindex)

- Sometimes information you needed to be able to do the lab was included in the Thursday lectures, which made it hard to finish since the deadline was on Friday. The lectures should be earlier in the week to make it possible to finish the labs earlier. The tutorial sessions should be in a computer lab! Most/all exercises were adapted to be done on a computer, but since there were no computers in the room one would have to bring their own computer... This should not be required! I thought the lectures and labs were excellent though, just pointing out the problems so it will be fixed until next year.» (Good)
- must for every s/w engineer..» (Good)
- A very fun and interesting course!» (Good)
- I rank this course high for two reasons: excellent lecturing/presentation/assistance and because of the immediate real life usefulness of the things we learn in the course. most other courses feel a bit distant from "reality" while this one is the opposite. » (Excellent)
- Great labassignments, building part for part week after week to finally se a result of all work running together was really meaningful.» (Excellent)
- Best course I have read so far!» (Excellent)
- Excellent teacher, very pedagogical and had a great structure of the course.» (Excellent)
- One of the best courses I"ve read on Chalmers. Nicklas deserves many "taps on the shoulder". Amazing lectures, I learned so much on the labs!» (Excellent)

14. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

- Quizes on the lectures and labs.»
- The help from teachers are great and should be followed till the course exist.»
- Nicklas!!»
- broberg"s lecturing style and content. the labs. the organisation and speed of response in every part of the course. »
- everything!»
- The teacher and the morning exercises»
- the sign at the door during lectures, the labs, showing exam question after finishing a block.»
- The labs!»
- The Quizzes!»
- The lectures, very good and structured.»
- physical exercise during lecture, all lab assistants, lab work, asking questions during lecture»
- Niklas. The best lecturer I"ve had. Really.»
- Tentamensupplägget.»
- The lab-assignments! Learnd a lot by working with them.»
- The short excercise sessions in the lectures, though they were a bit few at the end of the course.»
- Laborations, tentaupplägg.»
- ALL !! »
- The labs were good, but a template with values that could be inserted into the tables used in the lab. »
- The lab assignments»
- Everything! I can"t think of anything that should be changed.»
- The lectures and the slides!»
- Teacher and labs! »
- The labs!»
- Övningstillfällena. Mycket bra med handledning. Även föreläsningarna var väldigt bra.»
- Everything but the book»
- All course material and Niklas"s pony tail. :D»

15. What should definitely be changed to next year?

- i would not say must be changed, but adding little more complexity would make the course more interesting.»
- I saw relational algebra many times during the lectures but never really understood why it was relevant. since you include it on the exam with a few points, perhaps put a bit more energy on this. the xml things seem not so closely connected to the rest of the material, and another language/syntax to learn in the last week really doesn"t make things easier. perhaps mention it earlier or include it in the labs, or somehow force us to use it practically (or remove it). I missed those two parts but I could figure out the algebra part from given expressions. i felt lost on the xml though. »
- The labs are outrageous! We are forced to create overcomplicated tables with horrible performance implications through a lousy database interface. Having worked with databases for ears on a larger scale, I gave up on the labs out of frustration!»
- Tutorial sessions SHOULD be in computer labs! The lectures needs to be earlier in the week so one can actually finish the lab on time.»
- More on XML would be nice»
- it would be nice to have a lab assignment with xml,xpath and xquery.. »
- "Definitely" is a strong word, but the workload should be more even through the weeks.»
- Mindre labbar, alternativt längre deadlines och bättre förklarande slides.»
- nothing»
- I think it would be better to have more structured excercise sessions, where the excercise leaders could have showed some harder excercises on the blackboard or something like that. As it was now, most students used the excercise sessions as extra lab sessions.»
- There are two things that could be change for next year. First, it would be nice to be able to hand in the assignment on Monday morning because as some elements were introduced on thursday, it"s rather short for handing paper on friday. Second thing would be the filling of the database. I think it takes too much time for the few material it introduces. It could be fixed by giving a pre-established nomenclature for the database, and you could give us an insert.sql file to use.»
- A bit more complicated examples sometimes. Especially trigger examples»
- Forcing alot of hours insertering values into tables.»
- maybe include some XML in the lab assignments»
- Nothing»
- The stupid thing with not allowing people to enter if they are late. All it does is scares people away, nobody wants to take the risk of the teacher "embarrassing" them. I can not understand how the teaching can get interrupted by such, when it"s never interrupted in any other course. Also, it"s quite funny how the lectureslides covered that a class could not be booked into a room with less spots than the class had students - and in the same time book us in a 100 person room when we are 130 students. (Though at the end I guess not the 100 person room was enough..)»
- I"m not very fond of the exam. I"d prefer a more standard arrangement, but I understand if this arrangement works best for the subject.»
- Since I had a bad experience with my lab partner I think it would be nice to work individual with hte labs.»
- Nothing in particular.»
- I think the xml-part went to fast. Maybe you could short down the "no-sql" part and do some more xml!»
- Kanske försöka få mer lite mer xml övning»
- the book»
- In tutorials and lab sessions, everyone could be requested to ask questions in English and also if the assistants would answer the questions in English it would have been a perfect course. The language barrier discouraged me to go to the tutorials. »

16. Additional comments

- Had fun with the course, teachers were awesome. Learned a lot, i can not ask anything more :)»
- Greate and fun course. Loved it!»
- great course. one of the best I"ve taken when it comes to presentation, organisation, practical use, and time of execution. keep up the good work!»
- Great teacher!»
- Great course overall!»
- Niklas är top tre av de lärare jag har haft!»
- Great course!»
- Great course!»
- Good course to read.»
- Talk more about XML- not so briefly»
- Other courses should have the same type of exam, with the blocks. Labs fitted very well to the course contents.»
- Jennifer Widoms Open Classroom-lectures was really great for me as complement to the lectures (to get that "extra understanding")»
- En väldigt givande kurs. Mycket nöjd»
- Oscar was a really good mentor! He was really nice and encouraging throughout the course.»
- I enjoyed the course a lot. Kudos to the teacher.»
Genomsnitt totalt för detta stycke: 4.51

Genomsnitt totalt för alla frågor: 4.51
Beräknat jämförelseindex: 0.87

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