Final course evaluations Sociology 739 December 2003

With the exception of the last question, scores range from 1 = Instructor is below average to 5 = Instructor is superior. On the last question, the range is 1 = YES, 0 = NO.

Note that students were asked to provide an overall rating of this team-taught course.

	Mean
Instructor demonstrates enthusiasm for the subject	4.83
Instructor is effective in stimulating interest in the subject	4.33
Instructor communicates a genuine desire to help students learn	4.50
Instructor is willing to help students outside the classroom	4.33
Instructor is always present in class and arranges a substitute presentation	4.00
Instructor is prepared for each class meeting	4.50
Instructor explains the material clearly and understandably	4.33
Instructor's lectures are well organized	4.00
Instructor gives directions for assignments that are clearly understood	4.00
Instructor fully explains his or her grading standards and implements them accordingly	4.17
Overall, how would you grade this instructor as an effective teacher	4.50
Would you want to take another course from this instructor	0.83

N = 6

Evaluation of lecturing performance

• For all lectures: knows subject well, but things could have been made more interesting
• Very enthusiastic about topics
• Great, very dynamic
• There are a variety of professors (with a variety of styles) who are guest lecturers. However, Dr. Kemmelmeier’s lecturing performance is excellent—I have greatly enjoyed listening to and participating in his lectures.
• Lecturing performance was excellent

Evaluation of reading materials

• Although the materials were a little dry at times, they were very informative and easily read. The amount of reading each week was very stable and predictable, that was good.
• ???? sometimes overwhelming and not specific of session’s contents
• relevant to topics
• Some interesting, some very abstract
• Often too much reading that doesn’t really help me learn the material – just pages and pages of unhelpful babble. I prefer concise, structured articles.

Level of teaching sophistication

• Overall, no problems with communication of topic. I just wish the presentations could have been more interesting—this is a long class to sit through.
• Teaches on sophisticated level, however sometimes expects a little too much from students in their first year of graduate school
• Interesting style – enough class discussion and “real world” examples and applications
• Dr. Kemmelmeier -- excellent
• The level of teaching sophistication was good. Each lecture typically built on (+ not so much repetitive of) the readings that we had each week. We also had lots of discussion

Rapport with students

• I felt the instructor had excellent rapport with the students. We felt comfortable expressing our concerns, like, dislikes, etc. with him
• Dr. K. -- excellent
• Great communication via email. Professor always available and willing to help students
• Generally good
• Decent, but needs to be a little more open-minded about conflicting opinions + topics he is not so knowledgeable in
• Had rapport with class,but I found some instructors extremely irritating, and I had some conflicts

Overall evaluation of instructor

• Good (2)
• excellent – he explained the requirements thoroughly, was available outside of class for help, and give interesting lectures
• excellent, seems to have a passion for what he does
• Dr. K -- excellent

Overall evaluation of class

• Dr. Kemmelmeier is a very enthusiastic and motivating professor
• Really enjoyed the class. Some instructors/guest speakers were excellent, some were more “traditional lecturer” type. Overall, good class.
• Mostly good, but varied by instructor à this statement could apply to all categories
• Good
• I felt this was an excellent intro course. We learned about a wide variety of topics and received lots of feedback/help on our assignments.
• Overall, class was OK—thank god there’ no in-class exams