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The Department of Computer Science Faculty Course Questionnaire (FCQ) pages
provide a concise and easy-to-search summary of FCQ results for courses taught
in the department. Detailed results for all courses (including Computer Science
courses) offered throughout the University for recent years can be found on the
CU Faculty Course Questionnaires website.
A guide to understanding the Computer Science summary results is provided below.
These summary results cover several key categories of questions related to the
following topics: Course, Instructor, Access,
Workload and Treatment. The range of possible results for
each category is divided into three equal tiers representing the upper third,
the middle third, and the lower third of the range. The tier in which each
result falls is then represented by one of the symbols below. A perfect score
is also further distinguished from other top tier results.
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perfect
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highest
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mid-range
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lowest
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insufficient
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A significant change was made to FCQs beginning with the Fall 2006
questionnaires. The questions changed to some degree, but still cover
essentially the same key categories, as shown below. The scales used by
students to rate each question also changed, as did the actual values of
the results in each category. The specific questions used in each of the
two forms of the FCQs for these key categories are shown below.
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Summer 2006 and Earlier
FCQ Questions |
Fall 2006 and Later
FCQ Questions |
Course |
Rate this course compared to all your other university courses.
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Rate the course overall.
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Instructor |
Rate this instructor compared to all your other university
instructors.
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Rate the instructor overall.
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Access |
Rate accessibility of instructor.
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Rate the instructor's availability for course-related assistance
such as email, office hours, individual appointments, phone
contact, etc.
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Workload |
Rate workload relative to the credit given.
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Estimate the average number of hours per week you have spent on
this course for all course-related work including attending
classes, labs, recitations, readings, reviewing notes, writing
papers, etc.
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Treatment |
Rate instructor's treatment of ethnic minority and female
students.
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Rate this instructor's respect for and professional treatment of
all students regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age,
disability, creed, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran
status.
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The FCQ program allows students to rate their instructors and courses at the
end of each term. It provides information to instructors for teaching
improvement, to students for course selection, and to deans and chairs for
management. Students evaluate each course-section in three ways:
multiple-choice "core" questions printed on all FCQ forms, multiple-choice
optional questions selected and/or written by the instructor and/or the
department, and several open-ended items which request student comments.
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