Math 256 - Mech 221

Title

Description

People involved

Scheduled dates for work

Status (2011.08.08)

Documents

Mech221.1 Learning Goals

Write down learning goals for the labs and the course.

BW, CP, PO

Fall 08 (labs), Fall 09 (course)

Completed (2008)
Completed (2010)

Course and Lab Goals

Compilation of lab learning goals from lab documents

Mech221.3 Student Survey

Survey students at the end of the course to help determine attitudes toward computer labs.

CP, PO, WC

Fall 08, Fall 09, Fall 10

Completed (2008)
Completed (2009)
Report needed (2010)

2008 Results, 2009 Results, 2009 Results by Lab section

Mech221.4 Lab Observations

Attend labs and observe students as they work through each of the labs to provide feedback on student difficulties.

PO

Fall 09

Completed

 

Mech221.5 Rewrite/Review computer labs

Phase I: Rewrite computer labs to tie in more closely with the course material. Upload material to database. Phase II: Review labs based on data collected in 2009.

BW, WT, CP, PO

Fall 08 (Phase I),
Fall 09 (Phase II)

Completed (Phase I)
Completed (Phase II)

Material is available on the SEI Course Material Archive

Mech221.5 Student Data Analysis

Analysed student performance on final exam on questions involving Matlab.

CP, MB

Spring 10

Completed

Results

Mech221.6 Session Logging Trial

For Lab 5, students asked to submit a MATLAB "diary" file which records their commands, output, errors, and a timestamp for each activity.

WC

Fall 10

Data collected; session summaries plotted for the whole cohort and included in the CWSEI End-of-Year poster on Matlab Session Logging.

Poster viewable at CWSEI End-of-Year Event site for April, 2011 under "How do Novices Spend Time Programming with MATLAB?".