ISMT101 Final Score
By ET
I have finished grading my first course: ISMT 101. This course is called “Introduction to Information Systems and E-Commerce”, offered to all first year undergraduate students in the business school. It was a very intensive semester for me, as it is the first time to teach, not to mention the size of the two sections of 240 students.
I think the semester went well. I proved that I am a great professor. Student not only liked my classes, they also respected me for broadening their horizon. I wish this course could be offered to second year students, that way, I can probably teach more quantitative materials to them.
Just to see how my students did, I plotted some figures below:
The following one is a scatter plot of mid-term score versus final score, they obviously have a positive relationship, especially in the range of high scores. What I learn here is that good students tend to be good students consistently.
The next figure gives the distribution pie chart of the scores, I have roughly 20% A’s, 40% B’s, 35% C’s, then roughly 3.5% D’s, there are 2 F’s, they got the lowest score in midterm and final exam, and missed all my classes, and the labs.
I rank order the scores and plot a nice cumulative figure below:
Finally, I have the histogram to show the score distribution. The curve is nice, as anyone with score above the mean gets at least B-.
The top 5 percentile people get A+. People within one standard deviation below mean get from C+ to C, and people within one standard deviation above mean get from B- to A-.
