Now that it is time to switch partners, we want you to evaluate your experience with your current partner.
Answer each of the questions below and send those answers in an email to your TA. Although each question is phrased to elicit a yes/no response, also include comments to elaborate on your yes/no answer; the goal is to paint us a picture of the nature of your partner’s participation in the pair, and what you think about pair programming (so far). Include your name, your ID number, and your partner's name, each clearly indicated.
You can respond to each question separately, write us a mini-eaasy that adresses all the points the questions raise, or use a format somewhere in-between (e.g., combine answers to some questions, but not others).
If you were given approval to work alone, complete this evaluation about yourself as best as you can, revised as needed to make sense in that context. For example, the first question could be addressed as “Did you come to lab on time and ready to work.”
The evaluation is due at the date and time given on the Course Schedule.
Answer each of the questions below and send your answers in an email to your TA. An easy way to do this is to copy the quesiotnnaire into the body of an email message and then complete it. You can indicate your choice from various options by deleteing all the options for the question except the one you want to pick.
Although the open response questions are phrased to elicit a yes or no response, you are encouraged to include comments to elaborate on your answer; the goal is to paint us a picture of the nature of your partner's participation in paired work, and what you think about pair programming.
If you were given approval to work alone instead of in a pair, complete this evaluation about yourself as best as you can, revising as necessary to make sense in that context. For example, the first question could be interpreted as ÒDid you come to lab on time and ready to work?Ó
Your Name:
Your Partner's Name:
My partner's technical competency is (choose one):
Much better than mine Somewhat better than mine About the same as mine Somewhat less than mine Much less than mine
My partner and I were _______ compatible (choose one option to fill the blank):
Very Reasonably Not at all
Open response questions
Did your partner come to the scheduled meetings on time and ready to work? Did you partner notify you if she or he would not be able to attend a meeting or fulfill a responsibility?
Did your partner read the assignment and preparatory materials before coming to the scheduled meetings, showing up either with specific questions or ready to contribute?
Did your partner cooperatively follow the pair programming model (rotating roles of driver and navigator, questioning and making observations as the navigator)?
Did your partner contribute fully, fairly, and actively, to the best of his or her ability, to the completion of the lab assignment?
Was your partner's participation professional and cooperative overall?
Have you found pair programming helpful in completing the programming work and learning about programming in general? If you have previous experience programming alone, do you now prefer working in pairs?
Overall rating of your partner (choose one):
| Excellent | Consistently went above and beyond-tutored me, carried more than her or his fair share of the load |
| Very good | Consistently did what she or he was supposed to do, was well prepared and cooperative |
| Satisfactory | Usually did what she or he was supposed to do, was acceptably prepared and cooperative |
| Ordinary | Often did what she or he was supposed to do, was minimally prepared and cooperative |
| Marginal | Sometimes failed to show up, usually showed up but was rarely prepared |
| Deficient | Often failed to show up, was unprepared when she or he did show up |
| Unsatisfactory | Consistently failed to show up, was consistently unprepared |
| Superficial | Practically no participation |
| No Show | No participation at all |
Other comments:
For the next two assignments, you will work with a new partner; your new partner cannot be your current partner. As before, “we prefer you and your partner chose each other. If you prefer not to choose your own partner, or cannot find a partner, let your TA know this; we will find a partner for you.” You and your partner report the partnership to your TA no later than the date given in the Course Schedule.
Learning to work with different individuals is an important skill in general, and in the computer science workplace in particular; virtually all projects are accomplished by teams where membership changes ocassionally (and sometimes often).
Sometimes one of a pair will drop the course, or stop participating in it, leaving the other person of the pair without a partner. Reforming pairs lets us correct this situation.
Switching gives you an opportunity to pair up with another who has passed (and not passed) the same, or close to the same, lab exams; we strongly recommend you take advantage of this opportunity. Such a pairing puts together students who have (close to) the same tasks to complete, maximizing the benefit to both partners.