ECON 300: Intro to Economic Analysis

COURSE EVALUATION



In order to complete your final exam for this course, you must fill out this course evaluation. Please print a copy of this file, complete it, and turn it in to Dr. Rycroft. Do not put your name on the evaluation, but make sure that Dr. Rycroft knows it is from you. I will not compute your final grade until Dr. Rycroft tells me that you have turned in this course evaluation. (He will not give me the course evaluations until after I turn final grades in.)


1. How did this class compare with your expectations?





2. What was the most useful thing you learned in this class?





3. What did you find to be the most difficult part of the research process?





4. What advice would you give next year's class about how to get the most out of this course?





5a. How much of the reading did you do for this course? (Circle one)

Virtually none

Roughly a quarter

Roughly half

Roughly three quarters

Virtually All

5b.If you did less than half, why didn't you do more?

(If you did half or more, answer NA.)



6a. On a scale of 1 to 5, how useful did you find the Wyrick book? (Please explain your rating.)

6b. Which chapters did you find useful and not useful? Why?



6c. What, in your opinion, would make Wyrick a more useful book for this course?





7. Did you read my lecture notes on Blackboard?  To what extent were they useful?  (Details would be most helpful!)

 

 

 

 

8. Which other readings did you find the most useful? Which would you suggest be omitted next year?





9. How useful did you find the course webpage?





10. What would have made the webpage more useful to you?





11. How useful did you find the Steps in a Research Project webpages?





12. How useful did you find Dr. Rycroft's class on how to use E-Views? (If you didn't attend, write NA)





13 Did you know how to prepare a powerpoint presentation before you took this course?





14. Can you suggest any topics that we didn't cover that we should have?



15. In sum, what were the strengths of the course?





16. What were the weaknesses of the course?







17. What suggestions can you make to improve the course?





18. Do you have any other comments?








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