Instructor Survey:

Colorado Upper-Division Electrostatics (CUE) Administration

Thank you for administering the CUE in your course – we hope the data will be valuable to you as an instructor. We are developing this instrument so that other instructors may use it to assess conceptual understanding in junior-level E&M. Thus, we will be publishing data on CUE performance from multiple universities, to provide baseline data on student performance and as part of the instrument validation and description. We will not be identifying your institution, or you as an instructor, in these publications. It is, however, important that we be able to describe your institution and students for these publications. Please provide us with this information by June 25, so that we may include it in an upcoming paper submission. Thank you for your time.

Institution:

Instructor Name:

Instructor Email:

Course Name and Number:

Administered CUE in not answered Fall Spring (year)

YOUR INSTITUTION:

  1. My institution is a...
    not answered
    2-year college
    4-year college
    University
    Other (please specify):

  2. Typical number of undergraduate degrees awarded per year from your department:
    not answered
    1-5
    6-20
    21-50
    More than 50

  3. Is there anything else we should know about your institution or department?


    YOUR COURSE:

  4. The approximate fraction of students enrolled in this course is:
     
    0-25%
    25-50%
    50-75%
    75-100%
    Not answered
    Junior
    Senior
    Physics Major
    Engineering Major
    Other Major(s):

  5. This is a...
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    one-semester course covering electrostatics (followed by a second semester on electrodynamics)
    one-semester course covering electrostatics and electrodynamics
    Other:

  6. Number of students enrolled in course when you administered the CUE:

  7. Were students required to take the CUE as part of your course?
    not answered
    Yes
    No

  8. This course meets times per week for a total of hours per week.

    Do you have any additional comments about questions 4 through 8?

    THE COURSE:

  9. I have taught this course times (including the semester in which the CUE was administered).

  10. I teach using the textbook...
    not answered
    Griffiths “Introduction to Electrodynamics”
    Other:

  11. Is there anything else we should know about the format and coverage of your E&M I course or how it fits within your departmental program/curriculum?


  12. This course covers the following:

    No
    Yes
    Gauss' Law
    Method of Images
    Dipoles
    Multipole Expansion
    Separation of Variables
    Dielectrics
    Ampere's Law
    Sketching Fields
    Graphing Fields
    Limiting Behavior
    Delta Functions

    13. THE COURSE APPROACH:

  13. Which of the following methods do you use in the course?
     
    Never
    A few times per semester
    At least once every week
    A few times per week
    Every class period
    Not answered
    Instructor lecturing at board
    Classroom response system (i.e.“clickers”)
    Students working in groups in class
    Students solving problems during class
    Students working in groups out of class
    Homework
    Out of class homework help sessions
    Other:

    Other:


  14. Is there anything we should know about your teaching methods (lecture style, course structure, interaction with students, etc).


  15. I feel that the CUE tested skills and content that I taught in my course.
    Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Agree
    not answered


  16. I expected my students to do well on the CUE.
    Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Agree
    not answered


  17. I was pleased with my students’ performance on the CUE (if you have received your scores)
    Strongly Disagree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Agree
    not answered


  18. Do you have any comments on the CUE or on your students’ performance on the CUE?

Thank you very much for your time and effort!

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