Student Comments (2009/2010 Sem 1)


The good:

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1) She is good at helping us rephrasing the sentences.
2) Her explanation to any issues that come out is very good. She explained it clearly, and she also gives some example that very easy to understand, because most of her example did really happen in our daily life.
3) She knows how to ask questions so that we could understand the problem statement.
4) She was good at using the different life examples to help us understand the problems.
5) The facilitator was good at evaluating and analysing.She prefered to use the worksheet to guide students,so that the module is more interesting and easy to understand. Most classmates would like to study this module.
6) communication with us as she knows how to make us understand about the topics that we are going to learn today. Another thing that she is good is that she can make jokes.
7) givng us food for thought.
8) NIL
9) bascially lisa was a good faciliator, she would turn up to make things easier for us, so my team members and i would understand.
10) the facilitator is good at explaining her point. When we dont understand she is able to phrase in a simpler way for us to understand. she did well in prompting us question which helps in answering the problem statement breaking down the question during class discussion which help us have better understanding in the problem. she is friendly.
11) facilitating . she does not teach , she facilitates . she guided us towards understanding and not outrightly give us the answers or tell us how it is done .
12) Asking probing questions so that further thinking is involved for the students.
13) The facilitator was good at making us understand today"s problem and also made sure we could do the worksheet and what the worksheet was actually trying to put to us.
14) Good at communicate with us, easy going with her, no stress at all.
15) making us to really understand the problem. she goes through every question makig us know what is going on.
16) Using her knowledge to help the students to understand and also the idea behind the problem
17) Explaining and her performance is fantastic. As she was able to push us think further.
18) helping us out with the understanding of the problem statement and also, good at helping us on what we need to present for the presentation.
19) She knows how to lead us back to the topic when we get out of points/drift away during our study periods and when we are doing the worksheet.
20) facilitating and doing her best to help us improve on problem solving skills.
21) Explaining the problems
22) mixing fun and work together so that we can understand more which made learning less stressful.
23) N/A
24) trying to make us understand the problem easier and she would also praise us whenever we improve.
25) the faci was very good at explaining the problem to us. she made a complicated problem more easier for us to understand. presentation wiese, she will tell us what we could have done to make it beter and why the presentation was not up to standard. she also dicuss about the worksheet. i also think that the way she discuss with us the worksheet is a good methid. she can then telll us what we are good at and what we arent and this will make the team more aware of waht their weaknesses are and therefore the team can work on it.
26) Explaining clearly and important points.
27) explaining things and presenting her presentation.
28) The facilitator is very good at asking us questions to facilitate our thought process and phrasing questions that we do not understand in another situation, allowing us to obtain the answers that we want ourselves without a direct answer given from her. She is also very pleasant to talk to and holds high expectations of us. Generally i find her well and i hope she can continue to help me.
29) the facilitator is good at asking questions that poses the students to think more and deeper. She is really FACILITATING. Totally doing her job!
30) her communication with the students. She understands her students and ensure that her students uses their brains to think deeper. She always encourages us to think deeper and futhrer our thoughts. That"s actual a good practice for us to uses our minds to go on thinking deeper and cracking our heads to explore our ideas in developing our contribution to the powerpoint.
31) Being serious at work and ask useful questions which make us realise many facts.
32) telling us things that we dont know and ask us to improve on it. and she was also able to identify our mistake on the spot.
33) she was good at making us understand the thoery behind each action. how we should back up our resources and etc.
34) breaking complex things down to let us have a clearer understanding of what the problem is.
35) The facilitator was good at giving a clearer message on encourage student to well in overall performance, example voice out any ideas whenever there is a discussion, have a clear presentation and a good RJ.
36) She is a good and straight forward facilitator.
37) In meeting 2, her descriptions help us to analyse more and she"s good in asking questions that are difficult to explain. Her thinking mindset are ponder that it helps us to think deeper and we able to explain to other when they asked questions.

The not so good:

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1) She didn"t really try to attract student attention. Sometimes she just talked along and I don"t know whether she noticed it or not that we weren"t give any attention while she was talking.
2) She is somehow strict in giving grades. Has high expectations
3) I think the facilitator is so serious during the meeting 3 that the whole atmosphere in the whole class was stressful. if she can make a fun environment and talk more with classmates, i am sure all of us will prefer to study this module.
4) sometimes she does not tell us what exactly we have to do especially for the meeting 3, hence make me and my team confused on what we should do.
5) making us laugh
6) NIL
7) actually nothing there is about her.
8) there nothing not good about her so far i think she is one of the best facilitators we have out of the 5 facilitators.
9) instructions , sometimes . we get confused .
10) None
11) No comments
12) nothing.
13) nothing
14) N/A
15) pst, she would tell the team to think deeply. i think she can give an example then ask us to continue fron there
16) She is demanding at times as shes asks too many questions.
17) helping us further to understand a certain module that causes my class to be unsure of what we are supposed to do.
18) she is a good faci! generally good of her!
19) Too serious and not open enough to blend in the class.
20) she sometime push us too far till it is abit hard to digest the information
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22) The facilitor was good at giving out more clearer information when the facilitor had gone in the topic deeper as is not easy to understand at times.
23) When presenting she gives a comment "Im dissapointed with your presentation" It shows that she discouraged the team and also she have to tell us on what we need to improve on if the team"s presentation are not what she"s looking for.


What amuses me is how there are comments that contradict one another.  For example, there are comments that class is not stressful, and I "make jokes".  And yet, there is a comment that I could create a more fun and less serious/stressful environment.  Similarly for some of the other comments.  But I can kinda guess which class made the contrary comments.  It is what I consider my least responsive class. It is my final class of the week, and by then, I have actually refined my jokes and know which ones work and which do not, but they generally have no reaction at all.  So generally, if a few jokes fall flat in class, I tend not to go through the rest.  It's like talking to brick walls. 

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