Message sent out to all customers for grades at Week 15

Request for Customer Feedback, CS4911 Senior Capstone Project
Waters, Robert Lee
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:25 AM
To:
Guzdial, Mark
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First I want to thank you for your participation in serving as a customer for one or more project teams this semester. I would like your perspective on how well the students met your needs and to get your opinion on the quality of the product they delivered.

If you could give us some feedback by noon on Thursday December 11, I will use that information in assigning a final grade to the project.

How should you evaluate the project as a whole? The students were expected to complete all of the following activities:
(1) define what they are doing (specifications/product vision)
(2) design a solution
(3) implement a solution, and
(4) deliver an appropriately tested and documented result

Of particular importance to me is your evaluation of the actual product. You are more familiar with this than I am and are consequently better able to judge its quality with respect to what you actually wanted.

An excellent project will cover all of the above aspects. The team's delivery presentation and accompanying documentation should make their accomplishments in these dimensions apparent.

If you would like to give a grade (A-D) in lieu of comments, here is a simple rubric:

A = exceptional project that demonstrates *all* of the characteristics above. (Basic Competency != A)

B = good project that generally "works" and represents a high level of effort, but isn't impressive or doesn't meet all of the characteristics above. Students met most of your expectations, with failures limited to low priority tasks.

C = group did work the required amount to accomplish set of outcomes, but outcomes were minimal or significantly less than you expected Students failed to meet your expectations on some high-priority tasks.

D = (hope we don't really need to consider this or lower?) project was not successful; group devoted minimal work towards goals.
Students failed to meet your expectations on most high-priority tasks.

Thanks again for your participation as a customer for senior design.
I hope you will look forward to doing it again. If you have any questions on the grading or suggestions on how to improve the course, please send them along. I look forward to receiving your comments by Thursday.

If I don't hear from you by Thursday, then I will assign grades based upon what I have observed over the semester.

Thanks again for your participation,

Bob Waters

Last modified 10 December 2008 at 12:58 pm by Mark Guzdial