Feedback Survey for CIS 421/521

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Feedback Survey for CIS 421/521 - Fall 2021

Did you enjoy the class?

Yes, and it was one of my favorite classes at Penn!

Yes, I enjoyed it

No, I didn't (your feedback is especially valuable - thanks for taking the time to fill out this survey)

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What is your major / graduate degree?

Homework assignments

What did you think about the level of difficulty of the programing assignments?

Easy

Just about right

Difficult

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Prior to joining the class, how strong were your Python skills?

Novice / No prior experience

Expert

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Now that the class is over, how would you rate your Python skills?

Novice

Expert

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Did you attend any of the optional Python recitations?

Yes, I attended live

I watched some of the recordings

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Please rate the homework assignments

Leave a line blank if you skipped the assignment.

Terrible, definitely replace it next year

Needs improvement

Good assignment

One of my favorites

HW1: Python Skills

HW2: Uninformed Search

HW3: Informed Search

HW4: Games and Adversarial Search

HW5: Sudoku

HW6: MDPs and Gridworld

HW7: Reinforcement Learning

HW8: Language Models

HW9: Perceptrons

HW10: Neural Networks

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Did you attend any of the optional homework recitations?

Yes, I attended live

I watched the recordings

No, I didn't attend or watch the recitations

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Did you do the programming assignments with a partner when it was allowed?

Yes, all of them

No, none of them

Some of them

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Did working with a partner improve your learning experience?

Yes

Not applicable

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What is your opinion about randomly assigned partners?

We randomly assigned partners for two reasons: (1) To make it easier for students who started at Penn during the pandemic and who hadn't yet built a network to find a partner, and (2) to reduce "trading off" assignments where partners take turns doing the work instead of working together on each assignment.

Randomly assigned partners are fine

I strongly prefer picking my own partner

I wouldn't opt to work with a partner in either case

Should there be hidden test cases in the autograder for the HWs next year?

Yes

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Should we prioritize making autograder error message clearer?

Yes - this should be a high priority

Yes - this would be somewhat helpful

No - I rarely had problems interpreting the autograder's output

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Do you have any feedback on the assignments?

Were there any assignments where the instructions were not clear enough? Which ones? Do you have suggestions on how to improve any of the assignments for next year?

Lectures

How did you watch the lectures?

Check all that apply

I watched the pre-recorded lectures (http://artificial-intelligence-class.org/modules.html)

I attended lectures in-person

I watched the lectures live via Zoom

I watched the recordings of the live lectures

Please give your feedback on these modules

Drop this module next year

Needs substantial improvement

Fine as is

One of my favorite modules

Intro to Python

Search Algorithms

Logical Agents

MDPs and Reinforcement Learning

Bayes' Nets

Probabilities and N-Gram LMs

Naive Bayes and Perceptrons

Logistic Regression and Neural Nets

NLP and Vector Semantics

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Are there any topics that I didn't cover that you would like to see added?

Midterm exams

Did you feel that the midterm exams were a fair assessment of your knowledge of the course materials?

Yes

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Do you feel that writing notes in the colab notebook helped you prepare for the exam?

Yes

Not applicable - I didn't use it

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How did you take the midterms?

In person during the normally scheduled time

During the make-up time slot

At Weingarten for an SDS accommodation

Online

Any comments on the midterms?

Textbook

Did you do the required reading?

All of it

Most of it

Some of it

None of it

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When did you do the reading?

Each week before watching the lecture

Each week after watching the lecture

Before the exam

Never

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We used two textbooks - AI a Modern Approach and Speech and Language Processing. Should we keep using two, or switch to one?

Drop Speech and Language Processing

Keep using both

No opinion

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Quizzes versus remember.school

We developed a new platform for the course called remember.school, and used it rather assigning weekly reading quizzes. Next year, what should we use to encourage students to do the reading?

Use remember.school

Switch back to quizzes

Do both

Use neither

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Any comments on remember.school?

Extra Credit assignments

Did extra credit assignments improve your learning experience?

I didn't do this extra credit

I did it, and it improved my learning experience

I did it, but didn't get anything valuable out of it

R2D2 assignments

Attending seminars by famous AI researchers

Helping CCB's PhD students with their research

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Would you like to volunteer to help with more research projects?

Yes - please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWgXblpIkADdO_K3PQIgm4LAGz0o-XEByPIVJg6_ObxZVAPQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

No thanks

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Did you try out your access to the OpenAI API?

You can access it here: https://openai.com

Yes, and it got me excited about the future of AI!

Yes

Not yet, but I'm planning to over break

No, I'm not interested

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Any comments on the extra credit?

Teaching Staff

Did your professor have any unconscious ticks that were distracting?

For example: talked too quietly, said um too much, weird fashion sense.

Any feedback on how to be a better teacher?

Teaching Awards

Would you like to nominate any of the TAs for a teaching award?

If so, please write which TA and 1 or 2 sentences saying why they are awesome. I'll submit your nomination to the department.

Would you like to nominate any of your professors for a teaching award?

Doesn't have to be me! The deadline for nominations for Penn's "Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching" is Friday, January 7, 2022 at 5 PM. Here's the nomination link https://vpe.wufoo.com/forms/w1u4wrua0zefbx3/

Yes

Maybe

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Large Scale of the Class

This semester I allowed over 600 students to enroll in the class to accommodate the high interest in AI. This made it the largest class that I have ever taught, and one of the largest courses ever offered at Penn. Please check all that apply.

When were you granted a permit?

Before the term began

After CCB expanded the enrollment

I don't know

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How do you feel that the large scale class affect your learning experience?

My learning experience was surprisingly good given the size of the class

The scale didn't affect my learning experience

The scale somewhat negatively affected my learning experience

The scale very negatively affected my learning experience

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We recruited a total of 30 TAs. Was this enough?

Yes, the number of TAs was ample

It was reasonable but could be slightly increased

No, there were far to few TAs

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Was the wait in OHQ acceptable?

It was acceptable

It was too long

Not applicable, I didn't attend the TAs' office hours.

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Was the response time on Piazza reasonable?

My questions were always addressed in a timely fashion

My questions were typically addressed in a timely fashion

It frequently took a long time for my questions to be answered

My questions were rarely addressed in a timely fashion

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Next year, should I keep offering a large class, or should we revert to a smaller sized class?

Keep providing the large class so that everyone can take it

Limit the enrollment to keep the class small

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Any feedback on how to improve the class?

Apply to be a TA

Lastly, would you like to apply to be a TA?

Have you got a great idea about how to improve the class? Or did you have so much fun that you'd like to return as a TA? I'd love to work with you! You can apply to be a TA for the Spring Online MCIT course here (Harry Smith will be teaching): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPuYy0xaYW3PWasQwRRhAf_WF-NkP8YS_Q58jikK7CyABrBw/viewform If you'd like to apply to be a TA with CCB in Summer or Fall, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGM7uegYNxf0pY6T2lOhMpUosnVnH3c1woZ10IcFJ18IKN-A/viewform?usp=sf_link

Yes! I will apply!

I would love to but I'm graduating or too busy

No thank you

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