Physics Lab survey

Your experience in Physics labs is vital to our ongoing efforts to improve the learning outcomes of these courses. Your feedback is instrumental in enhancing the quality of our labs and ensuring they meet your educational needs. By taking a few minutes to complete this survey, you will help create a better learning environment for yourself and your peers. Your responses are completely anonymous and will be used solely to improve our lab sessions. Thank you for your time and valuable input!

Once you fully complete the survey and submit, you will be directed to a different page to get your lab credit.

Select your lab course
Select the day that your lab meets.
Select the starting time of your lab
Select the lab section number. Check with your TA if you are not sure.

On a scale of, 5 to 1 where 5 being “Extremely helpful” and 1 being “not helpful at all”, how would you rate the overall quality of the physics labs on the following categories?

1. Reinforcing and providing valuable hands-on experience with concepts covered in lecture
2. Developing basic measurement methods, error handling, and data analysis
3. Effective notebook-keeping techniques and regular practices of maintaining accurate records

Let us know about your experience with your TA.

4. How satisfied are you with the amount of help provided by the TAs?
5. How satisfied are you with the wait time from the moment you requested help?
6. How prepared do you feel the TA to help with your questions?

Let us know how you manage time during the lab.

7. Do you feel that the allotted time (1 hour 50 minutes) is sufficient to complete the required work?
8. On average, approximately how much time you spent on completing the Title, Purpose, Diagram?
9. On average, approximately how much time you spent on completing the Procedure?
10. How often did you read the lab manual before coming to the lab? (Answering this question truthfully will help us make necessary changes. We are NOT able to connect your identity to any of the answers)

Let us know how you feel about your experience in connecting the lab to the lecture.

11. Do you feel there is a strong connection between the concepts learned from the lecture and the lab?
12. We try to schedule physics labs in a way such that the concepts are covered in the lecture before the lab. How often did you experience that the lab is ahead of the lecture? ( Concepts needed to carry out the lab are not yet covered in the lecture before the lab)

Let us know about your experience related to the following items.

13. Do you feel that the group rotation helps to even out effects of working with the same group every week?
14. Is the group rotation difficult to follow?
15. Which of the following item/s on Brightspace that you found useful? Select all that apply
16. Do you feel that the grading rubric is helpful to understand how the points are allocated to different sections?
17. Do you feel that having grading rubric help with managing time during the lab?

Let us know if you have any comments, concerns or suggestions

Please do not include any personal information (names, email addresses etc.) in your responses.