We are at the end of a semester in another couple of days. End semester exams got over today. We finished doing the load distribution, allocation of subjects to be taught next semester. Ever since coming here I have been teaching one course a semester. I possibly could have gotten away not teaching any. But, I do derive some enjoyment from this. Besides, I have some notions about how things should be taught. This exactly was a similar situation when I came out of Govt. service and went to work for a private company. I had similar notions about how to manage a development team. I was fortunate that I got an opportunity to try out those ides and they got me great results. I need to try my ideas about teaching and see where it leads!
So, dear student friends, like the other courses I'll be adding extra notes related to the course at this blog.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
[CS 704D]Assignments and class tests
We went into that frenzy time of end semester activities, of compiling internal marks and other internal work to be done by student,s such as lab, project and seminars etc.There is whole interesting take on the whole exercise but this post is not about that at all.
It is about what I found evaluating the assignments on the study of typical operating systems. What I found was that many missed the point. The purpose of the representative systems was to study how do they exactly handle the main OS functions. The functions such as how tasks are managed, how resources like memory and I/O stuff and so on. However, many just picked up the top level details such as what is the products, how many versions are available and so on. Some did it absolutely on target and focused on the issues a computer scientist would be interested in. How do the others miss it! Is it because they did not even start thinking about it until the last minute! And then they just what was available?
My surprise with the answer sheets of the class tests was that, many spent a lot of effort in answering questions where such effort was not really required! If you are answering a question for 5 marks, there's only so much you should write!
It is about what I found evaluating the assignments on the study of typical operating systems. What I found was that many missed the point. The purpose of the representative systems was to study how do they exactly handle the main OS functions. The functions such as how tasks are managed, how resources like memory and I/O stuff and so on. However, many just picked up the top level details such as what is the products, how many versions are available and so on. Some did it absolutely on target and focused on the issues a computer scientist would be interested in. How do the others miss it! Is it because they did not even start thinking about it until the last minute! And then they just what was available?
My surprise with the answer sheets of the class tests was that, many spent a lot of effort in answering questions where such effort was not really required! If you are answering a question for 5 marks, there's only so much you should write!
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