Monday, May 20, 2013

Grades In

The grades are in for CS 124.  Hooray!

Interesting trend : freshmen, who make up a small fraction of the class, are highly over-represented in the A and A- grades.  This has been happening for some years now. 
Extension of the interesting trend : women freshmen*, who make up a smaller fraction of the class, are even more highly over-represented in the A and A- grades.

I'd be very excited if I were teaching the class again next year -- finding undergraduates who have the potential to be TAs for multiple years is golden -- but I'll be sure to pass the names on to the new guy.**

Other side of the trend :  2nd semester seniors performed substantially below average this year.
But on the positive side :  nobody did so badly they won't graduate.  (At least, not in my class.)  

Getting grades in really makes the class feel over.  Onto summer work!  (Research and writing...)

* Freshwomen if you prefer.
** And any freshman or sophomore in the class who got an A and is interested in TAing should let me know next November or so.




2 comments:

Jelani Nelson said...

I'd be very excited if I were teaching the class again next year

The new guy is very excited!

Unknown said...

Not surprised second semester seniors don't try as hard. There is no more incentive :)