Student Evaluation of Instructor Fall Semester 2009
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Student Evaluation of Instructor
Course:	81460 ECON 2106 PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS
Instructor:	Shelby D. Frost
Distribution:	Online
Enrollment:	189
Respondents:	166
Percentage:	87.8%

	5 - Strongly Agree
	1 - Strongly Disagree
	0 - N/A
		5	4	3	2	1	0	Inst	Sect	Crse	Dept	Coll	StdD
1.	The instructor followed the plan for the course as established in the syllabus.	65	26	17	2	10	0	4.1	4.1	4.2	4.3	4.3	1.2
2.	The instructor gave assignments relevant to the goals of this course.	64	23	16	2	11	2	4.1	4.1	4.2	4.2	4.3	1.3
3.	The instructor explained the course grading system clearly.	65	24	15	6	9	0	4.1	4.1	4.2	4.2	4.2	1.2
4.	The instructor was willing and able to answer students' questions.	62	24	14	5	12	2	4	4	4.2	4.2	4.3	1.3
5.	The instructor was receptive to students' and others' opinions.	56	21	20	7	13	2	3.9	3.9	4.1	4.2	4.2	1.4
6.	I learned a lot in this course.	40	28	21	9	21	0	3.5	3.5	3.8	3.9	4	1.5
7.	The overall structuring and sequencing of topics in this course facilitated learning.	46	26	21	10	14	2	3.7	3.7	3.9	4	4	1.4
8.	Tests in this course required creative and original thinking beyond mere memorization of material.	51	18	25	10	12	2	3.7	3.7	3.9	4	4.1	1.4
9.	Test questions clearly related to course content.	53	22	23	7	14	0	3.8	3.8	4.1	4.2	4.2	1.4
10.	The instructor communicates effectively.	54	21	18	9	17	0	3.7	3.7	3.9	3.9	4	1.5
11.	The instructor was well prepared.	65	23	17	5	9	0	4.1	4.1	4.2	4.2	4.3	1.2
12.	The instructor demonstrated extensive knowledge of the subject.	79	12	16	3	9	0	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.4	1.2
13.	The instructor stimulated me to intellectual effort beyond that required by most courses.	50	24	23	8	14	0	3.7	3.7	3.9	3.9	4	1.4
14.	The instructor's teaching methods aid students in understanding the material.	47	19	23	12	16	0	3.6	3.6	3.8	3.8	3.9	1.4
15.	The instructor was accessible to students outside of class.	52	20	20	10	9	8	3.9	3.9	4.1	4.2	4.2	1.3
16.	I am pleased with how much I learned in the course.	38	21	25	14	20	1	3.4	3.4	3.7	3.8	3.9	1.5
17.	I would recommend this instructor to anyone who is planning to take this course.	46	18	19	10	25	1	3.4	3.4	3.8	3.8	3.9	1.6
18.	All things considered, the instructor was very effective.	48	22	21	10	17	1	3.6	3.6	3.9	3.9	4	1.4
19.	Generally, how many hours per week did you spend outside of class preparing for class?	Total	%
	0-2	35	29.4
	3-4	47	39.5
	4-8	30	25.2
	9-14	7	5.9
	15 or more	0	0
20.	What is your expected course grade?	Total	%
	A	13	10.9
	B	49	41.2
	C	47	39.5
	D	6	5.0
	F	4	3.4
21.	What is your grade point average at GSU?	Total	%
	3.75-4.00	15	12.6
	3.50-3.74	15	12.6
	3.00-3.49	54	45.4
	2.5-2.99	22	18.5
	below 2.5	13	10.9
22.	For undergraduates only, which best applies to you?	Total	%
	freshman	4	3.4
	sophomore	45	38.1
	junior	61	51.7
	senior	6	5.1
	other	2	1.7
Course strengths.
1.	lots of extra opportunities to practice for exams.
2.	Great class
3.	Good outside material to study.
4.	The supplemental instruction and graduate assistance was extremely helpful.
5.	Alot of extra credit was offered, which was good. Most of the extra credit was relevant to the content in class
6.	availability of I Tunes U for lecture material, teacher's technology
7.	Great lectures!! Very interesting and informative.
8.	first unit was high school review
9.	I actually learned how economics are applied.
10.	Extremely in-depth.
11.	Very interactive class. It was easy to grasp the concepts immediately.
12.	Classroom demonstrations were very useful.
13.	The instructor would explain things by getting the students involved and showing demonstrations of how the situations we learned about worked.
14.	clicker questions
15.	lots of extra credit
16.	nothing
17.	Th e SI sessions
18.	great extra credit opportunities.
19.	Extra credit opportunities, no surprises, everything planned out.
20.	I learned a lot of valuable information about Microecon.
21.	Use of technology, use of classtime for most important subject matter.
22.	You learn a lot about the business world and making decisions.
23.	this is a great course for a business major.
Instructor strengths.
1.	Great professor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
2.	Well prepared. Great Orator
3.	knows her subject very well. good at providing everyday examples so the class can understand concepts better.
4.	Very enthusiastic. Dr Frost made the classes interesting and she always used relevant and recent examples. Lots of opportunities to interact in class and examples were educational and entertaining.
5.	The instructor was enthusiastic.
6.	ability to navigate and use GSU technology available to teach course
7.	funny and easy to relate too...
8.	Easy to understand when it comes to difficult subjects Explains things very well Easy to communicate with if a problem arises
9.	- i liked the use of technology, especially itunes u lectures.
10.	clickers, extra credit
11.	Great for extra credit.
12.	Great Professor!!
13.	Smart, funny and keeps things simple. Great examples.
14.	The professor welcomed questions and occasionally had us participate in experiments in order to teach us about economics.
15.	knowledgeable
16.	She used modern examples for us to understand material.
17.	Well prepared for every lecture.
18.	she was the worst teacher i have ever had at UGA and Georgia state
19.	knowledge of subject matter
20.	she was there
21.	Dr. Frost is the greatest college instructor I have ever soon. She truly understand the material she is presenting, and know how to deliver it effectively.
22.	very learned
23.	Well prepared for class lectures
24.	It was a tough course but Professor Frost did a great job teaching to such a large classroom environment.
25.	can relate well to students. listens well to students. has great examples. is passionate about her career and very enthusiasm, and is very welcoming to students.
26.	Very clear and understandable and humorous.
27.	Dr. Frost certainly knows economics well.
28.	Sense of humor, ability to convey concepts.
29.	She enjoys what she teaches, so it makes her class enjoyable.
30.	Dr Frost is awesome and I recommend anyone to take her because she is organized and follows a clear process.
Course weaknesses.
1.	Too much material in one semester.
2.	big classes are always harder to focus on and they dont provide that 'one-on-one' teaching style student seem to benefit from.
3.	I felt like we did not have a lot of time to go over questions in class and the instructor threw us to a grad student or SI instructor to teach us the rest of the material that was clearly needed for the exam.
4.	Requirement of I Tunes U to cover material, when there was plenty of class time.
5.	None.
6.	- i did not like how all of the test questions came from a test bank.
7.	Some parts did not flow well. There is way too much material to absorb well. Since there is so much material to cover, I think the Final exam should not be comprehensive.
8.	book didn't explain much
9.	Too much material for the semester
10.	I am on the Presidents list and will no longe be because of this course.
11.	Very confusing.
12.	After the mid-point of the semester, the material wasn't really taught in a creative way.
13.	too much techonolgy (online lessons)
14.	tests were hard, because they had random questions.
15.	nothing
16.	the book
17.	is sometimes hard, need better examples or something else to help students because is sometimes confusing, and also need improved SI instructors,
18.	Not well prepared for tests. At times the course moved too fast.
19.	I feel that the test matial went far beyond anything we learned. The practice tests were misleading because the actual tests were far more in-depth. I believe economics is best reserved for smaller class sizes of up to 30 students. 200 students is completely impractical for this type of material.
20.	Even though those chairs are new and improved, I was still uncomfortable with the lack of space.
21.	There is a lot of information to cover in this course, but not enough class time.
Instructor weaknesses.
1.	she is all over the place in class..she knows too much about the subject so sometimes she might forget who her audience is. too much investment in the graphs i wish the teaching style would change a little because you can only look at so many graghs before they start looking the same
2.	Used a bit too much technology at times.
3.	The instructor tried to adapt to everyone's learning styles, but never really adapted to mine. We would do exercises that took up a whole class and the relevance of the exercise was worth one question on the exam. I would have rather gone over what the prof would put on the exam. Also, the prof went over something very basic and elementary then put sometime much harder on the exams. Especially looking at many of the averages and seeing that they were in the 60's, sometimes 50's for the class I would have expected a different approach to teaching th material.
4.	Teacher would spend days compeltely diverted from topic or on examples that were meant to help or supplement that would not be included on tests, when I felt we needed to stay on topic with test material. Some chapters' coverage was so vague (in class) or would only cover the first 2 or 3 topics of a chapter (the easy stuff) that it REQUIRED you to utilize I Tunes U, suplementary lectures to get the "meat" out of the material.
5.	None.
6.	- it was hard to listen to her as she screamed through most of the lectures. in a class as huge as ours was, she needs to be using a microphone. - it would have been helpful to me if she focused more on the broader picture & how the things in the chapter related to one another.
7.	Things we learned in class were not on tests, so class time was useless
8.	None noted
9.	bad attitude, made the students feel like they do not amount up to the instucter because we are not Econ majors, talked negatively about Accountants (which is my major). She did not teach all that we should know for the exams and she rambled a lot in class which was very disrupting.
10.	Its hard to understand her method of teaching. I didnt really learn anything.
11.	Final Exam was nothing that we had ever seen before. Its baffling how I made a study guide that was very detailed and I still did not know most of the questions. Final should not be comprehensive
12.	test format
13.	She was an awful teacher, she would talk about nothing for hours and she would use in classexamples with the students that would last all class time, her tests were on nothing she went over and the class is set up as if i don't have 5 other classes.
14.	Lectures were pointless I could learn everything from reading.
15.	nothing
16.	N/A
17.	more hands on examples
18.	I would be remiss in not stating my true opinions, regardless of whatever grade I received in this class. Frost leans far too heavily on outside classroom teaching. She barely taught any real content inside of the classroom and leaned too heavily on SI sessions (which not everybody can realistically attend) and iTunes U. I threw a LOT of my own time and effort into this class, learning almost everything on my own. This class far exceeded the syllabus requirements which means we covered far more material, very thinly spread throughout the semester, and yet tested in great detail. I am very upset and very disappointed with this class.
19.	Much of her teaching material was available online, but not effectively communicated within the classroom.
Course suggestions for improvement.
1.	less graphs
2.	N/A
3.	Overall the course was okay. I had to work much harder for this class and Econ is not even my major. I considered Econ as a minor but after this class I definitely reconsidered.
4.	We should have taken the online quizzes after she taught the material instead of before.
5.	More details when it comes to some harder subjects to grasp
6.	Make the tests more like the practice tests given online.
7.	Make a study guide or at least lecture the harder things instead of the very basics.
8.	nothing
9.	more hands on examples, and better SI leaders, more help with the course because is difficult to understand.
10.	Study guide for tests and slowing down a little.
11.	Keep class sizes smaller. Make sure instructors are actually teaching valuable material INSIDE of class. Doing more than the syllabus suggests is nice, but don't expect a great amount of detailed knowledge using this method.
12.	I think it would better suit the tests if the questions with graph answers had number-labeled graphs as opposed to lettered graphs so that people could not confuse the letters when copying their answers to the scantron.
13.	Graphs should be the main focus in this class. Many students had a hard time with the graphs.
Instructor suggestions for improvement.
1.	spend more time in class lecturing instead of posting lectures to itunes u and less "activities" in class.
2.	N?A
3.	Go over more of the difficult stuff that you will put on the test and not just the terms and formulas. The terms are in the book and can be read, but the harder material is what needs to be gone over in class.
4.	Great instuctor- made economics very interesting!
5.	When teaching, focus on things you're going to put on the test
6.	Ms. Frost should have a better attitude towards her students and not be so concerned that we are "blue collar workers" as she refered to us in class. She should not relay private mattes to the Teaching Assistant, Evana, without consent of the student. This really upset me that she coppied Evana on to all of the emails she sent me. She was rude in her emails and should work on her skills when communicating with students.
7.	Give homework for a grade.
8.	less stuff on study guides
9.	nothing
10.	more examples
11.	Heed school policies - you are not above them. Teach relevant and valuable material inside of class. Your activities may be considered fun by some, but they don't offer much in the way of information. I leaned on my own self-teaching for this class, Dr. Frost did not add much more enlightenment beyond this.
12.	Slower more thorough explanation of course materials in class.
13.	When clicker questions are done, they should be the harder questions. They were almost always easy.
Comments on classroom environment (for example: temperature, audio/visual equipment, visibility, etc.).
1.	good.
2.	i like how the professor made it a point to walk around the auditorium instead of just standing at the front.
3.	I liked that big classroom and the technology that the prof used to do class.
4.	Everything was great!
5.	a lot of students talked during class. i liked the clickers & technology she used
6.	The classroom environment was awesome. I like the technology that the professor was able to utilize.
7.	liked the clicker interaction
8.	The temperature was usually very cold.
9.	nothing
10.	sometimes had equipment problems, clickers didn't work, and could get audio on several ties especially one time when dr frost was doing the class via Visual classroom I forgot what it was called but we couldn't get the audio working and we missed like 20 minutes of the lecture and other projector problems.
11.	I'm really more concerned with my learning environment, not the classroom itself.