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= Official evaluation of the course "Information Retrieval, WS 2016/2017" =

Lecturer: [[https://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/bast|Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast]]; Assistant: [[https://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/brosi|Patrick Brosi]]; Tutors: [[https://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/buchhold|Björn Buchhold]], [[https://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/korzen|Claudius Korzen]], Raghu Rajan, Natalie Prange, Johanna Götz, Axel Lehmann. Number of participants in the evaluation: 73. Number of registrations for the exam: 72 (as of 30-01-2017).

The evaluation was web-based and run via the University's central evaluation system !EvaSys.
A mail with a personalized link to the online evaluation form was sent by the system on Monday, January 16.
A reminder was sent on Wednesday, January 25.
Due to a bug during the HISinOne export of the e-mail addresses, at first only participants with '''Teilnahme akzeptiert''' were sent an e-mail, while participants with '''Belegwunsch akzeptiert''' were ignored at first.
Luckily, the bug was finished just in time such that eventually all participants received an e-mail with their personalized link.
Participation was anonymous.

The evaluation was also announced to the participants of the course in [[https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ws1617/InformationRetrieval/svn/public/slides/lecture-12.pdf#page=5|Lecture 12, slide 5]].
Participation was also asked for as part of [[https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ws1617/InformationRetrieval/svn/public/exercises/sheet-12.pdf|Exercise Sheet 12]].
This year, the number of points in the exercises were again critical for participation in the exam (50% of the points were required).
Last year, everyone was admitted to the exam, regardless of the number of points in the exercises.
Participation in the evaluation was XX% this year (TODO: up date when number of exam registrations is final) vs. 71% last year.
In previous year, where also 50% of the points from the exercises were required for exam admission, participation was also over 90%.

In the following, all comments given in the free-text fields of the evaluation are provided (in the order in which they appear in the EvaSys report). The comments were copied verbatim, except for a few corrections (wrt orthography, grammar, etc. ... no change of meaning). If you see a comment from yourself which you do not want to appear in this list or if you find a comment that you think was inaccurately transcribed, send an (anonymous, if you prefer) email to Hannah Bast.

A statistic of the quantitative questions can be found in the automatically generated [[http://ad-teaching.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/InformationRetrievalWS1617/evaluation-report.pdf|EvaSys report (PDF)]].

== Nominations for teaching award (55 out of 63) ==