09-10+Optics+Lab+Survey

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= Reflection on Survey = This survey was administered about three quarters through the class. I have asked for informal feedback from students at several points, but this was a more formal survey. I compared these results to the data from last year in the summary below.

Highlights:
In general, most responses to this survey are positive. Some new suggestions for my teaching came out through this survey such as using warm-up problems more frequently or doing more review for tests. The feedback on the optics lab itself was more positive, which I can partially attribute to us doing the optics lab after the conceptually simpler speed of sound lab.

Areas of need and Next steps:
Areas of need that show up in this survey are a need to improve how I prepare students for unit tests. They are not as successful as I would like on those cumulative assessments. When Mike and I talked about it, one idea that came up was to give more new practice questions before a test, rather than just asking students to revisit old questions. I think that makes sense. I think that it would be good to have a more guided review in the fall for geology next year and scale that back in the spring. Mike and I discussed keeping the order of sound and light as we did this year. I have made even more notes on changes I'd like to see for the optics lab next year to improve some of the questions and to give students more concrete questions to answer within their lab.

Summary with specific reflections
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Data
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