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Student evaluations fall 2024

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Student evaluations of instructor, course, and course materials provide guidance for the institutions on areas of relative strengths and areas where there may be room for improvement.  The top line summary is perhaps best captured by looking at the top five areas of strength and the bottom five areas of weakness.  Leading strengths include awareness of the student learning outcomes, instructor preparation, and clarity of the syllabi. Trailing weaknesses include the perpetually low score for textbook access, the always anomalous overall effectiveness of the instructor (this score is always significantly lower than the other metrics in this section of the student evaluations), and regularity of student-instructor contact.  This report presumes familiarity with the student evaluations form in use at the institution. The responses were converted to numeric values: Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree Students dominantly mark strongly agree or agree which we...

Ethnobotany field final

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Starting off at the northeast corner where we started with Premna obtusifolia. We headed west through to Palhinhaea cernua From there we made a jog to the south for Ocimum tenuiflorum and Jasminum sambac. Ocimim tenuiflorum  Jasminum sambac  En route Heading past the LRC The long tail trailing behind the mad hatter, the Pied Piper of the college. Centella asiatica Writing box solving the field writing challenge by thinking on the outside of the box. Literally. Kerry "KC" with the box. The final is always an honor system event. Not sure what sense this really makes in an age where Google Gemini and Google Lens can identify plants and pull up uses. That said  the students are generally respectful of the guidelines, seen here keeping their answer sheets to themselves. I headed directly from the Centella asiatica to the Cymbopogon cit...