Warm-Up Questions

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• Which course(s) failed the most number of students?
• Which department had the most significant improvement in instructor ratings in year 2013 (compared to 2012)?
• Which year saw the largest drop (from the previous year) in total students taught among all the CS courses?
• Which department had seen the biggest reduction in the number of courses taught since 2010 (i.e., the majors are shrinking)?
• How does the university’s average GPA change over the years, rise, steady, or fall?
• Who (instructors) had the largest change in instructor rating between any two years?
• Who (instructors) had taught the most number of courses?
• Who (instructors) had taught the most number of students?
• Who (instructors), with at least 100 students taught, are most generous in giving out good grades (most students receiving A’s)?
• Who (instructors) had the highest instructor ratings when teaching a large couse (n>100) for the first time?
• Who (instructors) had shown the most consistent pattern in making a course (previously taught by someone else) better in terms of course rating?
• Which department is more aggressive in failing students?
• Which department relies on lecturers the most (highest ratio of students taught across instructor types)?
• Is teaching generally worse or better in Spring compared to Fall semesters, in terms of instructor rating and in terms of course rating?
• What is the relationship between class size and course rating, positive or negative correlation? Is this correlation becoming stronger or weaker over the years?
• Are there more or fewer “grad part-time instructors” over the years?
• Does the average teaching load (# of students taught) for a typical lecturer increase or decrease over the years?
• Which course saw the largest increase in workload in any given year?
• What is the average change in instructor rating pre and post tenure (assistant professor → associate professor)?
• What is the average change in course size pre and post tenure?

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• Which classes have the largest number of students withdraw throughout the semester?
• Which classes show strong signs of “weed out” behaviour? ((TotalDropped+TotalIncomplete+Total C- or below)/total enrolled)
• Which instructors with class size n>30 have the best rating across all classes taught?
• Which classes with a size n>30 were most impacted by the instructor? (diff between InsturctorAvg and CourseAvg)
• Which classes had the highest loyalty (low drop and withdrawal rates).