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= Official evaluation of the course "Information Retrieval, WS 2017/2018" =

Lecturer: [[https://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/bast|Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast]]; Assistant: [[https://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/korzen|Claudius Korzen]]; Tutors: [[https://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/brosi|Patrick Brosi]], Johannes Kalmbach, Natalie Prange, Simon Selg, Danny Stoll and Daniel Tischner. Number of participants in the evaluation: '''78'''. Number of registrations for the exam: '''76''' (49 for the written exam + 27 for the oral exam). Ratio of these two numbers: '''97%'''.

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 Saturday, January 13.
A reminder was sent on Friday, January 19.
The evaluation was closed on the evening of Saturday, January 27.
In total, 9 students reported that they didn't received neither the first mail nor the reminder mail from the !EvaSys system, although all of them were registered for the course in !HisInOne. 
After a request to Martina Nopper (by mail), a mail was sent to these 9 students manually by the !EvaSys team (on January 24) 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/ws1718/InformationRetrieval/svn/public/slides/lecture-11.pdf#page=6|Lecture 11, slide 6]].
Participation was also asked for as part of [[https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ws1718/InformationRetrieval/svn/public/exercises/sheet-11.pdf|Exercise Sheet 11]].
20 points were awarded, which were announced to be used to replace the points of the worst exercise sheet (there were 13 exercise sheets overall, for each of which a maximum of 20 points could be achieved).
This year (as for the last year), 50% out of the maximum number of points from the exercise sheets (that is, 130 out of 260 points) were required to be admitted to the exam.
Participation in the evaluation was 97% this year (number of submitted evaluation forms / number of exam registrations) vs. 95% last year (vs. 71% is WS15/16 where everyone was admitted to the exam, regardless of the number of points achieved in the exercises).
In previous years, where also 50% of the points from the exercise sheets was 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/InformationRetrievalWS1718/evaluation-report.pdf|EvaSys report (PDF)]].