NUS Student Feedback - TEACHER REPORT for 1630(CS1010X-PROGRAMMING METHODOLOGY (LECTURE)) (Leong Wing Lup, Ben 018864)

Raters	Student
Responded	56
Invited	67
Response Ratio	84%

	Response Count
I would like to nominate Leong Wing Lup, Ben for teaching awards	36

Comment
-Skilled and caring professor
-He is good
-His kindness and sincerity is an inspiration to all.
-Prof Ben follows an interesting and unique teaching pedagogy that encourages students' transition into mature, independent learners. He is also very passionate about the subject and goes the extra mile to add more value to the class and also offer us valuable advice on our future!
-Deserves recognition for his contributions and capabilities as a teacher
-He is encouraging and cares more about us learning rather than us doing well in the exams.
-He encourages students to develop themselves, and at the same time does his best for his students.
-Prof Ben made me have greater interest and learned more about programming
-Engaging
-He motivates students frequently while teaching.
-He is truly passionate about what he teaches and always tries to make his lessons interesting and fun for his students. He also cares a lot about his students' progress and development outside academics
-I'm sure every other students would have already given really good reasons
-Student-centric teaching with a strong passion for teaching.
-Fostering interest in subject
-Extremely passionate about teaching and his students.
-Passionate
-His dedication to his students is excellent.
-He is a very dedicated teacher and tries to always get the best out of his students.
-Very clear, makes lessons interesting, genuinely cares for students
-Dedication to teaching
-good explanation
-Enjoys torturing the students with his questions
-An engaging professor that inspires student to do better
-cool professor
-cares for student development
-smart and sexy
-He is great
-Engage students
-its just the way he motivates the students to think of coding as something interesting
-Uses creative teaching methods and cares for his students
-Interesting professor.
-His teaching is entertaining.
-Teaches in a way that allows us to stretch ourselves
-Every reason stated under his strengths
-Cos he is awesome and does not give up on the most horrendous of students. Takes the effort to send emails every too often.
-Passionate

C. SUMMARY OF TEACHING SCORES
(i) Teaching Rating Score Analysis

Question	Average Score (TEACHER)		Department Average (COMPUTER SCIENCE)		Faculty Average (SCHOOL OF COMPUTING)
Question	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation
Overall, the teacher is effective.	4.7	0.5	4.7	0.6	4.7	0.6

Question	Average Score (TEACHER)	Dept Average by Activity & Level (COMPUTER SCIENCE-LECTURE (Level 1000))	Fac Average by Activity & Level (SCHOOL OF COMPUTING-LECTURE (Level 1000))	Dept Average by Activity (COMPUTER SCIENCE-LECTURE)	Fac Average by Activity (SCHOOL OF COMPUTING-LECTURE)
Question	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean
Overall, the teacher is effective.	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.7

Overall, the teacher is effective

Graphs illustrating the information in the accessible table that should immediately follow it.

Question	Average Score (TEACHER)		Department Average (COMPUTER SCIENCE)		Faculty Average (SCHOOL OF COMPUTING)
Question	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation
The teacher has enhanced my thinking ability.	4.7	0.6	4.6	0.6	4.6	0.6
The teacher provided timely and useful feedback.	4.5	0.6	4.5	0.6	4.5	0.6
The teacher has increased my interest in the subject.	4.6	0.8	4.5	0.8	4.5	0.8
Average of Q1-Q3	4.6	0.7	4.5	-	4.5	-

Question	Average Score (TEACHER)	Dept Average by Activity & Level (COMPUTER SCIENCE-LECTURE (Level 1000))	Fac Average by Activity & Level (SCHOOL OF COMPUTING-LECTURE (Level 1000))	Dept Average by Activity (COMPUTER SCIENCE-LECTURE)	Fac Average by Activity (SCHOOL OF COMPUTING-LECTURE)
Question	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean
The teacher has enhanced my thinking ability.	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.7
The teacher provided timely and useful feedback.	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5
The teacher has increased my interest in the subject.	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6
Average of Q1-Q3	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6

Department Specific Questions

Question	Average Score (TEACHER)		Department Average (COMPUTER SCIENCE)
Question	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation
The teacher has enhanced my ability to communicate the subject material.	4.6	0.6	4.5	0.6

Question	Average Score (TEACHER)		Department Average (COMPUTER SCIENCE)
Question	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation
The teacher's attitude and approach encouraged me to think and work in a creative and independent way.	4.6	0.6	4.6	0.6

Question	Average Score (TEACHER)		Department Average (COMPUTER SCIENCE)
Question	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation
The teacher cares about student development and learning.	4.7	0.5	4.6	0.6

(ii) Teacher Rating Analysis Based on Scale Distribution

The teacher has enhanced my ability to communicate the subject material.

The teacher's attitude and approach encouraged me to think and work in a creative and independent way.

The teacher cares about student development and learning.

(iii) Teacher Rating Frequency Analysis

1. The teacher has enhanced my thinking ability.

Statistics	Value
Response Count	56
Mean	4.7
80th Percentile	5.0
Standard Deviation	0.6
Positive Feedback	95%

2. The teacher provided timely and useful feedback.

Statistics	Value
Response Count	56
Mean	4.5
80th Percentile	5.0
Standard Deviation	0.6
Positive Feedback	95%

3. The teacher has increased my interest in the subject.

Statistics	Value
Response Count	56
Mean	4.6
80th Percentile	5.0
Standard Deviation	0.8
Positive Feedback	93%

The teacher has enhanced my ability to communicate the subject material.

Statistics	Value
Response Count	56
Mean	4.6
80th Percentile	5.0
Standard Deviation	0.6
Positive Feedback	96%

The teacher's attitude and approach encouraged me to think and work in a creative and independent way.

Statistics	Value
Response Count	56
Mean	4.6
80th Percentile	5.0
Standard Deviation	0.6
Positive Feedback	95%

The teacher cares about student development and learning.

Statistics	Value
Response Count	56
Mean	4.7
80th Percentile	5.0
Standard Deviation	0.5
Positive Feedback	98%

(iv) Teacher Rating Scores vs. Gender

Question	M	F	Overall
The teacher has enhanced my thinking ability.	4.8	3.7	4.7
The teacher provided timely and useful feedback.	4.5	4.7	4.5
The teacher has increased my interest in the subject.	4.6	4.0	4.6

D. STRENGTHS

What are Leong Wing Lup, Ben's strengths?

Comments
Approachable professor, easy to communicate with, gives good advice.
His lessons are interesting
Excellent at challenging students to think analytically. Also has a great sense of humour.
Ability to effective codes to show how to shorten answers effectively
Prof Ben honestly and sincerely cares about teaching and whether we understand the subject matter. I think that is very commendable. Furthermore, his style of teaching (integrating RPG-like mechanics) really helps to inspire me to go the extra mile and do that extra side quest for that sweet sweet exp.
– Designing the coursework in a way that encourages independent learning and self-exploration
Consistent and caring for students
helping us focus on concepts building up the chain of thought
Prof Ben's strengths are that his questions for tests and exams are interesting, difficult and are able to make us smarter after doing the questions.
He encourages students to develop themselves, and at the same time does his best for his students.
Prof Ben's teachings are straightforward and clear. I was able to catch on his explanations and ideas as he was clear in his presentations and sharings. He also engages the class actively which makes learning fun and enjoyable.
Ability to interact with students on a personal level. One of his other strong points is the ability to incite a strong passion for the subject.
His speech is encouraging.
Exciting classes, fast, effective, basically any good adjective
As per Recitation comments.
– online lectures are structured in small 10 min + sections that helps us to learn section by section and makes it easy for us to review parts that we are weaker in
The examples provided showcase various nuances in the material that would otherwise be unappreciated
Attentive to each students' needs
Good teacher
I think the whole course is the best course that I have taken in my life. My professor is able to simplify lecture concepts very well during recitation. Best example would be on memoization.
Lectures always provide good examples of the topic that are complex enough to challenge us to understand it, yet not too challenging so that we can understand it after some work on the topic.
Engaging and interesting. He also explains concepts clearly and comprehensively.
Prof Ben is extremely dedicated. He helps students who are in need and he is very prompt to give us feedback.
He is a very experienced teacher and conveys the subject material of the course to his students very effectively. At the same time, he also addresses his students' concerns promptly and ensures a smooth learning process.
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Explaining and teaching ideas clearly
Interesting, Class in Relaxing Atmosphere,
Engaging and motivates you to think and work our brains
He's able to see things from various perspectives including ours and nobody is left out in his class. He tries to make the class engaging and I appreciate that. He provides wisdom from outside of the class too.
Very sharp, knowledgable and really cares for his student's interests
He is very familiar with the subject. His teaching of the subject is good.
Entertaining
Prof Ben is very encouraging. His passion in programming inspires students like me to enjoy and appreciate coding. It has truly been an honor to be Prof Ben's student
Very creative questions asked
Understands lecture material well enough to ensure that all questions from any angle could be answered.
The questions stretches the mind :/
Prof Ben is very good at setting exam questions.
Straight to the point, understandable, highly effective
Prof Ben is caring, charismatic, and introduces new perspective in ways of thinking when solving questions, and his lessons are always intense and forces us to think out of the box. Can't imagine any teacher that can be better than him.
–Living up to the name of being Prof Ben :)
able to explain complex concepts with clairty cares for his students alot

E. AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT

What improvements would you suggest to Leong Wing Lup, Ben?

Comments
Devote more time to the weaker students.
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Perhaps the online lectures could use a little more explanations and go through new concepts at a slower pace.
Perhaps be less cryptic when giving advice when students pose questions. I know you're not supposed to just give answers because that defeats the purpose of learning something on your own. But sometimes his advice are seemed as unhelpful and would cause some students to give up. It's a balance.
– Questions posed during the lectures could be revisited at some point later on.
slow down just a bit once in awhile
nil
He can give students more detailed notes especially on certain difficult concepts.
Some of the subject material could be simplified a little bit for greater understanding.
Nil
Nothing really. How cool is that.
Sometimes he should not assume students will understand the content easily. he should explain more clearly when going through questions.
Lol none
As per Recitation comments.
Lectures were great, but the final few for C felt rushed
Speaks very fast, tend to not really focus as much on weaker students
I would prefer exam practice to be more similar to the actual exams.
I really think C could have had more in depth coverage, as the lectures left a lot of us confused and we had to rely heavily on online materials, more so than in python.
My only suggestion would be that he should be more patient with the students who are not able to keep up with the pace of the class.
Sometimes explanations are a little unclear.
Could spend less time on admin and other matters before commencing lessons proper
NIL
Can try to speak a bit slower. Just returning from NS and not used to the environment yet
Making the bar to succeed or score even higher.
Prof Ben tends to ramble/sidetrack sometimes
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Set easier questions for exams
Just stay this way
NIL
Some of the lectures were either too fast or too slow; Pacing feels inconsistent at times, but the reasons for the inconsistent pacing were covered in the Recitations and Tutorials.
The section on C programming is unclear to me, had to trial and error a lot, and rely on online tutorial sites (but I still can't get it :( )
NIL.
NIL
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Nah he is perfect just the way he is -Bruno Mars
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Raters	Student
Responded	47
Invited	67
Response Ratio	70%

	Response Count
I would like to nominate Leong Wing Lup, Ben for teaching awards	28

Comment
-Student-centric teaching with a strong passion for teaching.
-Best teacher in my 12 years of education.
-He cares about the students in terms of personal development beyond the classroom, and is an effective teacher in my opinion. Instead of just focusing on the solutions to specific problems, he walks us through the though process and teaches us how to approach programming problems of a similar kind.
-He makes us interested in the subject
-Engaging and fun
-Extremely passionate about teaching and his students.
-Passionate
-Engaging, encouraging, and comprehensive teaching.
-Prof Ben is extremely dedicated to his students and comes up with creative problems for us.
-He is a very dedicated teacher and tries to always get the best out of his students.
-Dedication to teaching
-good explanation
-Cool Teaching Style
-Engaging
-cool professor
-cares for student development
-Uses creative teaching methods and cares for his students
-He's just too awesome
-His teaching is entertaining.
-Recap concepts well, knows common mistakes and how to explain it effectively
-Young and skilled professor.
-He is good
-He encourages students to develop themselves, and at the same time does his best for his students.
-Prof Ben made me interested in the topic as I learned more about it
-Fantastic
-He has been dedicated to ensuring that students get the maximum benefit from the module, and enables students to take charge in their learning with a healthy level of dependence. He is also very passionate in the subject, which is very encouraging for us students hoping to explore deeper into computer science and programming in the future.
-He is encouraging and cares more about us learning rather than us doing well in the exams.
-He is the best.

C. SUMMARY OF TEACHING SCORES
(i) Teaching Rating Score Analysis

Question	Average Score (TEACHER)		Department Average (COMPUTER SCIENCE)		Faculty Average (SCHOOL OF COMPUTING)
Question	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation
Overall, the teacher is effective.	4.7	0.5	4.7	0.6	4.7	0.6

Question	Average Score (TEACHER)	Dept Average by Activity & Level (COMPUTER SCIENCE-TUTORIAL (Level 1000))	Fac Average by Activity & Level (SCHOOL OF COMPUTING-TUTORIAL (Level 1000))	Dept Average by Activity (COMPUTER SCIENCE-TUTORIAL)	Fac Average by Activity (SCHOOL OF COMPUTING-TUTORIAL)
Question	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean
Overall, the teacher is effective.	4.7	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6

Overall, the teacher is effective

Question	Average Score (TEACHER)		Department Average (COMPUTER SCIENCE)		Faculty Average (SCHOOL OF COMPUTING)
Question	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation	Mean	Standard Deviation
The teacher has enhanced my thinking ability.	4.7	0.6	4.6	0.6	4.6	0.6
The teacher provided timely and useful feedback.	4.5	0.6	4.5	0.6	4.5	0.6
The teacher has increased my interest in the subject.	4.6	0.7	4.5	0.8	4.5	0.8
Average of Q1-Q3	4.6	0.6	4.5	-	4.5	-

Question	Average Score (TEACHER)	Dept Average by Activity & Level (COMPUTER SCIENCE-TUTORIAL (Level 1000))	Fac Average by Activity & Level (SCHOOL OF COMPUTING-TUTORIAL (Level 1000))	Dept Average by Activity (COMPUTER SCIENCE-TUTORIAL)	Fac Average by Activity (SCHOOL OF COMPUTING-TUTORIAL)
Question	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean	Mean
The teacher has enhanced my thinking ability.	4.7	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6
The teacher provided timely and useful feedback.	4.5	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.4
The teacher has increased my interest in the subject.	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5
Average of Q1-Q3	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5