The term is starting to wind down. Finals are fast approaching. This term sure went by quickly!
In the upcoming couple of weeks you will be completing course critiques for each of your engineering courses. Course critiques are an excellent method to give direct feedback on the courses that you are taking. The results from the critiques are reviewed not only by the professor but the department and the faculty as well. The critiques are split into three sections: characteristics of the instructor, characteristics of the course, and instructor feedback on the reverse. The results are then compiled and a weighted average is calculated for each question.
While you are completing the critiques, remember to pay attention to the format of question that you are answering. Question six, eleven, and twelve are centre-weighted. This means that they are weighted on a different scale which favors the middle response as the best answer and A/E as the lowest weighted responses. Another tip to keep in mind is that while all of the questions are important, questions ten to seventeen are the best indicators of the quality of teaching and the overall course which are often the most important factors for students.
For those of you who don’t know, the results from past course critiques are available online for all Waterloo Engineering undergraduate students at eng.uwaterloo/critiques/ or via course the critique link from engsoc.uwaterloo.ca. The results can be filtered by term (FALL, WINTER, SPRING), instructor or by course. Next time you are considering a course, think about heading over to view the course critiques and looked at what previous students thought about the course or instructor.
Last but not least, a huge thank you to our amazing course critique director, Shari King. She is an organisational superstar.
Did you know, the word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want?
Keep Smiling,
Megan
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