#acl Claudius Korzen:read,write Patrick Brosi:read,write Heike Haegle:read,write All:read

= Official evaluation of the course "Information Retrieval, WS 2019/2020" =

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/korzen|Claudius Korzen]], Daniel Bindemann, Julian Tischner, Andreas Woitzick. Number of participants in the evaluation: '''74'''. Number of registrations for the exam: 90 (64 for the written exam + 26 for the oral exam). Ratio of the number of participants in the evaluation ot the number of registrations for the exam: 82%.

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 20th 2020.
The evaluation was closed on Sunday, palindrome day (02-02-2020).
The participation was anonymous.

The evaluation was also announced to the participants of the course in [[https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ws1920/InformationRetrieval/svn/public/slides/lecture-12.pdf#page=4|Lecture 12, slide 4]].
Participation was also asked for as part of [[https://daphne.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/ws1718/InformationRetrieval/svn/public/exercises/sheet-12.pdf|Exercise Sheet 12]].
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).
As usual, 50% out of the maximum number of points from the exercise sheets (that is, 130 out of 260 points) were required to pass the ``Studienleistung'' associated with this course.

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/InformationRetrievalWS1920/evaluation-report.pdf|EvaSys report (PDF)]].

== Nominations for teaching award (59 out of 69) ==





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== Quality of the work of the tutor ==