Teaching Tightrope
I am teaching a graduate-level course this semester titled “Process Analysis and Simulation“. This course, by its very design, has a significant overlap with the previous courses in Chemical Engineering. After mid-term Quiz-2, I passed on a questionnaire to get feedback from students. The feedback clearly shows the real difficulty I face in this course. Quoting from some feedbacks:
Some of the contents are redundant.
Several diverse topics — It would be better if some common topics like Numerical techniques, Linear Algebra etc is avoided and more focus is given to the other portions.
Another feedback:
Considering my exposure to mathematics, programming […] the coursework and assignments are somewhat pretty difficult […] All of us [first year graduate students] are finding this course difficult compared to others. […] The [course] was a bit too fast.
All these comments were anonymous. Among the students who put their names against the comments, the ones who agreed with “redundant” comment have so far scored 75% (average of two); the ones who agreed with “difficult” comment have scored 47% (average of three).
I think I am doing OK.
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