Frequency/difficulty for each course component

[danasilver]

For each component selected for the question "What were the primary components of this course?" two additional fields would appear to rank the frequency and difficulty of that component.

Additional discussion is needed to decide how the answers to these questions should be phrased. A 1 to 5 rating system is simple, but doesn't seem concrete enough. For frequency, quantized answers like "Every class", "Weekly", etc. could work. A numerical response indicating the number of times this component took place throughout the course would also give these answers more concreteness.

Difficulty is a harder question to answer in terms of subjectivity. Quantized answers might be best to generalize the responses. People tend to think of work as "easy", "moderate", and "hard". Responses like these might also be easier to remember weeks after completion of an assignment rather than questions about how many hours a particular assignment took.

This feature was brought up by the Middlebury SGA Student Educational Affairs Committee on October 12, 2015.

[danasilver]

Feedback from SGA discussion:

• Bias because not many reviews.
• Difficulty is too subjective.
• Too much effort to answer.
• Don't publish until at 10 reviews.
• Mark courses without many reviews.
• "What did other people think?"
• Faculty answer questions about courses.
• Add frequency, not difficulty.