The course schedule was reviewed and at least one faculty member was selected to review a room in which they were teaching. An ad was placed in the Daily Cougar urging students and faculty to review our classrooms. By October 9, 95% of the general purpose classrooms had been reviewed by at least one faculty member or student. A total of 242 independent evaluations were received. When two or more evaluations were reported for the same room the evaluations were averaged.
All UH students, staff and faculty were encouraged to review the evaluation of General Purpose Classrooms and to participate in a survey.
Assigned classrooms are literally assigned to an academic unit. The dean of each unit with assigned classrooms was contacted and asked to complete a brief survey. By October 14, 1999 approximately 75% of the 207 assigned classrooms and class laboratories had been evaluated by the departments that control the use of these areas.
All UH students, staff and faculty are encouraged to review the self-evaluation of these assigned classrooms and class laboratories.
The median grade is a B and the average is a 3.05 (B)
In addition to questions about the amount of off-campus work they were engaged in and their "ideal" academic schedules, each student was asked to grade the classroom in which they were completing the brief survey. A Preliminary Analysis of the student evaluations of their classroom is now available.
Therefore, the average student (890 respondents) works an average of 16 hours per week -- remember that 32% report no hours worked. The average student is enrolled in about 11 semester hours this semester. If, as many of us believe, students should spend 2 to 3 hours per week studying for every hour spent in class then these students should be spending at least 20 to 30 hours per week studying, 11 hours per week in class, 16 hours per week working, and some 6 hours per week moving from home to school to job. This amounts to some 50 to 60 hours per week. A difficult schedule made even more difficult when you factor in all of the other things that people do.