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) |
Course and Lab Goals |
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) |
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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 |
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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), |
Completed (Phase I) |
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 |
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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?". |