Survey ID1230
Title07s2 Teaching Workload/Capabilities
DescriptionIt would be useful to know how people spend their time in preparing/running courses, and also to know what topics people are able to teach, to give more flexibility in teaching allocation. This survey aims to be a first-cut at getting some information on these issues.
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Fill Ratio65% (33/51)
# Filled33
# Suspended0
# Not Filled18
1. Workload
1. Nominate a course that you have been LIC for, and answer the following question relative to that course.  (required)
Question type : Short-answer
2. How many hours per week do you spend on each of the following activities during teaching semester? (For exam marking and assignment prep/marking, average it out over the semester; e.g. you do 60 hours exam marking, that's 60/14 = 4 hours/week)  (required)
Question type : Single answer -- Radio Button
  0 hours 1-2 hours 3-4 hours 5-6 hours 7-10 hours > 10 hours
Lecture preparation (0%) (15%) (21%) (27%) (21%) (15%)
Lecture delivery (trick question) (0%) (21%) 26 (79%) (0%) (0%) (0%)
Developing tutorial exercises 10 (30%) 17 (52%) (12%) (3%) (3%) (0%)
Tutorial delivery 27 (82%) (18%) (0%) (0%) (0%) (0%)
Developing lab exercises 14 (42%) 11 (33%) (21%) (3%) (0%) (0%)
Lab demonstrating 24 (73%) (15%) (12%) (0%) (0%) (0%)
Assignment preparation (9%) 13 (39%) 11 (33%) (12%) (3%) (3%)
Assignment marking 10 (30%) 15 (45%) (15%) (3%) (0%) (6%)
Answering emails from students (6%) 23 (70%) (21%) (3%) (0%) (0%)
Answering queries on forums 11 (33%) 17 (52%) (12%) (3%) (0%) (0%)
Consultations with students (6%) 26 (79%) (15%) (0%) (0%) (0%)
Communicating with tutors (24%) 25 (76%) (0%) (0%) (0%) (0%)
Exam marking (6%) 19 (58%) (18%) (3%) (0%) (15%)
3. If there are other activities not mentioned above, please indicate them below and give an estimate of the number of hours per week spent on them:
Question type : Long-answer
2. Capabilities
4. For each of the following broad topic areas, indicate how well you would be able to run a course in that area. use the following scale:
  1. there is no way I could run a course in this area
  2. I could run a course, but would need LOTS of preparation
  3. I could run a course well enough, given sufficient notice
  4. I'm an expert; I already run courses in this area
Yes, these are very broad areas; think about whether you could teach a broad introduction to the field in the specified area. And, No, answering that you could teach such a course will not be interpreted as an offer to do so.  (required)
Question type : Single answer -- Radio Button
  0 1 2 3
Intro programming (3%) 10 (30%) 14 (42%) (24%)
Intro data structures (9%) (21%) 14 (42%) (27%)
Algorithms (not intro) 12 (36%) (27%) (27%) (9%)
Artificial Intelligence 14 (42%) (24%) (18%) (15%)
Bioinformatics 23 (70%) (24%) (0%) (6%)
Computer Architecture 13 (39%) 14 (42%) (9%) (9%)
Concurrency 21 (64%) (18%) (12%) (6%)
Databases 14 (42%) (27%) (21%) (9%)
Embedded Systems 17 (52%) 11 (33%) (9%) (6%)
Games 20 (61%) 10 (30%) (6%) (3%)
Graphics 20 (61%) 10 (30%) (9%) (0%)
Human-Computer Interaction 20 (61%) (24%) (9%) (6%)
Networks 17 (52%) 12 (36%) (3%) (9%)
Object-oriented Programming 10 (30%) 14 (42%) (24%) (3%)
Operating Systems 15 (45%) (27%) (15%) (12%)
Programming Languages 13 (39%) (15%) 11 (33%) (12%)
Security 17 (52%) (21%) (24%) (3%)
Service-oriented Computing 19 (58%) 10 (30%) (6%) (6%)
Software Engineering 16 (48%) (21%) (24%) (6%)
Theory of Computation 15 (45%) (18%) (21%) (15%)
5. If there are other topic areas not mentioned above that you feel capable of teaching, please enter them in the box below. Terminate each topic area by a semi-colon.
Question type : Long-answer



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