Rutgers University Student Instructional Rating Spring 2010
01 640 251 03 65136 Nanda Vidit
ENROLL= 30 RESP= 19 (63%) STRONGLY STRONGLY # OF MEAN MEAN MEAN MEAN
DISAGREE NEUTRAL AGREE NO OF OF OF OF
PART A: UNIVERSITY-WIDE QUESTIONS: 1 2 3 4 5 RESPONSES SECTION COURSE DEPT LEVEL
1. The instructor was prepared for class and
presented the material in an organized manner 0 0 0 5 14 0 4.74 4.39 4.20 4.25
2. The instructor responded effectively to
student comments and questions 0 0 0 3 16 0 4.84 4.36 4.06 4.17
3. The instructor generated interest in the
course material 0 0 1 6 12 0 4.58 4.17 3.91 3.94
4. The instructor had a positive attitude toward
assisting all students in understanding
course material 0 0 0 5 14 0 4.74 4.47 4.21 4.28
5. The instructor assigned grades fairly 0 1 3 2 12 1 4.39 4.17 4.10 4.11
6. The instructional methods encouraged student
learning 0 0 4 5 10 0 4.32 4.12 3.81 3.88
7. I learned a great deal in this course 0 0 3 8 8 0 4.26 4.17 3.83 3.98
8. I had a strong prior interest in the subject
matter and wanted to take this course 2 3 5 4 5 0 3.37 3.90 3.33 3.79
9. I rate the teaching effectiveness of the
instructor as 0 0 0 6 13 0 4.68 4.14 3.86 3.96
10. I rate the overall quality of the course as 0 0 3 7 9 0 4.32 4.06 3.75 3.90What do you like best about this course?:
Vidit Nanda is the ideal TA (Teaching Assistant). He does a good job in clarifying the material covered in lecture. A very nice, entertaining guy, who answers questions from the students very thoroughly.
Vidit is by far one of, if not the, most organized and well spoken TA's I've had during my 3 years at Rutgers. He really made this course a LOT easier to understand and did a terrific job breaking down the material during recitation.
Very good at explaining what we went over to class in a way that we could do homework and exam problems
Vidit - he was a good TA even though i don't think my grades came back fairly
vidit was funny and it was very comfortable and an calm learning environment that encourage learning
Doing examples, explaining the concepts, and the joking around in recitation
Nandas patience
The instructor's teaching style is fun and it is not boring when he lectures.
many examples.
humor
If you were teaching this course, what would you do differently?:
The MAPLE labs didn't teach my anything. I just followed the directions online and handed in my work. I see why we should learn maple, however we used it so little that it didn't make much sense to use at all. Quizzes and Workshops were helpful.
I don't know why, but I feel like during the second half of the course Vidit did a LOT of HW problems, but I think that what the other students wanted so...
no maple labs. Did not improve my understanding of concepts at all.
encourage students to go to office hours and hav either more TAs helping for more office hours
More group discussion
nothing
nothing. you were awesome!
nothing
Nothing
more explanation in concept
donuts
In what ways, if any, has this course or the instructor encouraged your intellectual growth and progress?:
not sure
intellectual growth and progress?! ... well um .... make clac3 slightly more interesting
i know more about math
The workshops were reasonably difficult...
again his patience and the way he taught the students which was really good
The instructor has not encouraged growth and progress.
it was ok
comedy
Mr. Nanda was a very dynamic instructor. While Professor Greenfield presented the course material in an abstract manner, Mr. Nanda presented the material in the way we needed to know it for the class.
Other comments or suggestions::
Best TA ever.
I really want to commend Vidit for doing such a great job TAing this class, and I'd like to recommend him for the TA award. I will be writing a letter to the Math Department about this.
good job! helped my understanding of the material a lot.
More office hours!! i don't care about your other classes!!! =] <3
Vidit is a great TA, hopefully he teaches one day.
he tries hard preparing the recitation worth going to the class.
meh