John Huerta

Teaching Evaluations

Email: jhuerta at math dot tecnico dot ulisboa dot pt

I have a long history of teaching evaluations, having been a teaching assistant for most of time as a PhD student from 2005-2011, and a primary lecturer at UC Riverside in 2007 and again at Australian National University in 2012. In the following graph, you can see the trend in my average evaluations for each year I have taught:

In case you are wondering, here is how I made this graph. Of
the three types of evaluations I have had (teaching assistant at
Riverside, lecturer at Riverside, and lecturer in Australia), I
selected the question that seemed most comparable among the surveys:
questions 19, 19 and 7, respectively. I then normalized all scores to
be out of 5, and took the simple average of these scores for each year
of teaching. Note the graph omits the academic years 2008-2009 and
2011-2012, when I was not teaching.

I would like to point out that after my first year, my average evaluation score has almost always been 4.5/5. The average over all terms is 4.2, and neglecting that rocky first year this rises to 4.4, narrowly peaked with a standard deviation of 0.3. Hiding inside the year 2006-2007 is a nearly perfect score of 4.9/5 for the first course I ever lectured.

All of my teaching evaluations are below:

As Lecturer

Linear Algebra, 2nd Semester 2012, the Australian National University.
- Student comments and evaluations.
- Selected student comment:
  John was able to convey concepts to us in the simplest way he saw fit, which meant that the concepts learned were always clearer and described in normal english. Drawings and visualisations help a heap with linear algebra. John's concern for a quiet class and for individual student concerns was great.
Honours Linear Algebra, 2nd Semester 2012, the Australian National University.
- Student comments and evaluations.
- Selected student comment:
  Although last semester I didn't quite enjoy Linear Algebra because I thought that it wasn't very abstract and only consisted of row reduction, this semester I realised how wrong I was and how interesting Linear Algebra is, and this was thanks to the lecturer who taught the subject with a very different perspective to the way in which it was taught in MATH1115.
First-Year Calculus, Summer 2007, University of California, Riverside:
- Student comments and evaluations.
- Selected student comment:
  Great class, John. I understood every bit of the material, and that's more than I could say for my last 9C professor. Your examples were clear and easy to follow. Thanks for everything.

As Teaching Assistant

University of California, Riverside, 2005 - 2011

I have assembled my TA evaluations into a single file. The courses I taught were:

Math 4 - Precalculus
Math 5 - Precalculus
Math 8B - Introductory Calculus
Math 9ABC - Introductory Calculus
Math 10AB - Vector Calculus
Math 11/CS 11 - Discrete Math
Math 22 - Business Calculus
Math 46 - Differential Equations
Math 131 - Linear Algebra
Math 132 - Linear Algebra
Math 144 - Set Theory
Math 151C - Advanced Calculus
Math 165AB - Complex Analysis
Math 171 - Abstract Algebra