This is a nice website <https://kenya.notinmycountry.org> though there are very valid concerns that some people - students, public, colleagues, etc may abuse the system That said, and without endorsing the stats from the site, it's sad that the worst performing lecturer is in the IT field, KU https://kenya.notinmycountry.org/individual/njoroge-harrison-department-comp...
I think they should add a field for mastery of topic. Njoroge Harrison has had a not-so-flattering Facebook group named after him 6 years ago. He also famously described a round rip as the distance the sun takes to go round the earth. I remember him a lot for making me retake my a class he taught in his last semester, which I barely attended. I had to take an extra semester, but thankfully, it was taught by Thakur. If i weren't for this, I would know almost nothing about HCI. On 22 April 2013 15:54, Tech List Kenya <techlistkenya@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a nice website <https://kenya.notinmycountry.org> though there are very valid concerns that some people - students, public, colleagues, etc may abuse the system
That said, and without endorsing the stats from the site, it's sad that the worst performing lecturer is in the IT field, KU
https://kenya.notinmycountry.org/individual/njoroge-harrison-department-comp...
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The system is awesome only that i wonder whether its a scheme to get traffic. How immune is the system to abuse? How do u filter good and bad intentions on the part of the user to rank individuals? On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
I think they should add a field for mastery of topic.
Njoroge Harrison has had a not-so-flattering Facebook group named after him 6 years ago.
He also famously described a round rip as the distance the sun takes to go round the earth.
I remember him a lot for making me retake my a class he taught in his last semester, which I barely attended. I had to take an extra semester, but thankfully, it was taught by Thakur. If i weren't for this, I would know almost nothing about HCI.
On 22 April 2013 15:54, Tech List Kenya <techlistkenya@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a nice website <https://kenya.notinmycountry.org> though there are very valid concerns that some people - students, public, colleagues, etc may abuse the system
That said, and without endorsing the stats from the site, it's sad that the worst performing lecturer is in the IT field, KU
https://kenya.notinmycountry.org/individual/njoroge-harrison-department-comp...
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I had the same queries which i have submitted to them and as well registered and graded people i did not know, as well as commenting the same. It is a good attempt but with feedback, they can perfect it over time On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Henry Kamabi <hkamabi@gmail.com> wrote:
The system is awesome only that i wonder whether its a scheme to get traffic. How immune is the system to abuse? How do u filter good and bad intentions on the part of the user to rank individuals?
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
I think they should add a field for mastery of topic.
Njoroge Harrison has had a not-so-flattering Facebook group named after him 6 years ago.
He also famously described a round rip as the distance the sun takes to go round the earth.
I remember him a lot for making me retake my a class he taught in his last semester, which I barely attended. I had to take an extra semester, but thankfully, it was taught by Thakur. If i weren't for this, I would know almost nothing about HCI.
On 22 April 2013 15:54, Tech List Kenya <techlistkenya@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a nice website <https://kenya.notinmycountry.org> though there are very valid concerns that some people - students, public, colleagues, etc may abuse the system
That said, and without endorsing the stats from the site, it's sad that the worst performing lecturer is in the IT field, KU
https://kenya.notinmycountry.org/individual/njoroge-harrison-department-comp...
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I saw that website last week - it seems no one has rated any lecturer - they all have default value of 3.. On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Patrick Karanja <wabethi@gmail.com> wrote:
I had the same queries which i have submitted to them and as well registered and graded people i did not know, as well as commenting the same.
It is a good attempt but with feedback, they can perfect it over time
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Henry Kamabi <hkamabi@gmail.com> wrote:
The system is awesome only that i wonder whether its a scheme to get traffic. How immune is the system to abuse? How do u filter good and bad intentions on the part of the user to rank individuals?
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
I think they should add a field for mastery of topic.
Njoroge Harrison has had a not-so-flattering Facebook group named after him 6 years ago.
He also famously described a round rip as the distance the sun takes to go round the earth.
I remember him a lot for making me retake my a class he taught in his last semester, which I barely attended. I had to take an extra semester, but thankfully, it was taught by Thakur. If i weren't for this, I would know almost nothing about HCI.
On 22 April 2013 15:54, Tech List Kenya <techlistkenya@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a nice website <https://kenya.notinmycountry.org> though there are very valid concerns that some people - students, public, colleagues, etc may abuse the system
That said, and without endorsing the stats from the site, it's sad that the worst performing lecturer is in the IT field, KU
https://kenya.notinmycountry.org/individual/njoroge-harrison-department-comp...
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I saw that website last week - it seems no one has rated any lecturer - they all have default value of 3..
The all have default value of 3 because they have not being ranked. When you start ranking them, each lecturer with either rise above 3, or fall below...
Really sad that KU has still maintained such individuals as Njoroge.. Again something I noted, the Photo associated with Njoroge is Felix Musau's(Musau has since left KU). May be the administrator should check on that. Hopefully, the info gives some feedback to the authorities concerned. Regards, Patrick Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> Sender: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:24:15 To: Skunkworks Mailing List<skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Reply-To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Lecturer Rating _______________________________________________ skunkworks mailing list skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
I actually got feedback regarding potential abuse, https://kenya.notinmycountry.org/blog/2012/06/fraudulent-submissions-notinmy... regards Patrick On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Patrick Mathenge <kabiroz@yahoo.com> wrote:
Really sad that KU has still maintained such individuals as Njoroge.. Again something I noted, the Photo associated with Njoroge is Felix Musau's(Musau has since left KU). May be the administrator should check on that. Hopefully, the info gives some feedback to the authorities concerned. Regards, Patrick Sent from my BlackBerry®
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But their ranking algorithm is a bit flawed since in cases where the lecturers have not been rated they are ranking by lecturer name. Hence lecturers with names starting from around letter S end up being ranked as least (or worst) performing. Case in point, https://kenya.notinmycountry.org/individual/oyamo-reuben-o-department-inform... Either they rank all of them as no 1 or not rank at all. And why is it that all lecturers seem to have 3.00/5 points from 10 votes? On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Patrick Karanja <wabethi@gmail.com> wrote:
I actually got feedback regarding potential abuse,
https://kenya.notinmycountry.org/blog/2012/06/fraudulent-submissions-notinmy...
regards
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Really sad that KU has still maintained such individuals as Njoroge.. Again something I noted, the Photo associated with Njoroge is Felix Musau's(Musau has since left KU). May be the administrator should check on that. Hopefully, the info gives some feedback to the authorities concerned. Regards, Patrick Sent from my BlackBerry®
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We had a similar system in college even though it was manual, paper-based. I think it might be neat for the creators of the site to mimic that kind of behaviour, in that they verify that those taking the survey are real students of the said lecturer from a particular campus. This is easier said than done unless you can create accounts for different universities and register the classes taken plus the students. Ours used to be based on the courses delivered by the teacher, say HCI, Computer graphics, data structures & algorithms, Ethics, Finance, distributed systems, Principles of Macro-Economics, etc. That way, you are less likely to have people abuse the system (good lecturers are liked and get good rankings, the weaker ones get lower points). Also the scores should be based on the number of samples taken, perhaps expressed as a percentage of the total to show relative opinion of the survey takers. For example report that "20% think that the lecturer is Exceptional, 70% very good, 5% Good, 3% Satisfactory, 2% poor" and so on. Martin. On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Bwana Lawi <mail2lawi@gmail.com> wrote:
But their ranking algorithm is a bit flawed since in cases where the lecturers have not been rated they are ranking by lecturer name.
Hence lecturers with names starting from around letter S end up being ranked as least (or worst) performing.
Case in point, https://kenya.notinmycountry.org/individual/oyamo-reuben-o-department-inform...
Either they rank all of them as no 1 or not rank at all.
And why is it that all lecturers seem to have 3.00/5 points from 10 votes?
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Patrick Karanja <wabethi@gmail.com>wrote:
I actually got feedback regarding potential abuse,
https://kenya.notinmycountry.org/blog/2012/06/fraudulent-submissions-notinmy...
regards
Patrick
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Really sad that KU has still maintained such individuals as Njoroge.. Again something I noted, the Photo associated with Njoroge is Felix Musau's(Musau has since left KU). May be the administrator should check on that. Hopefully, the info gives some feedback to the authorities concerned. Regards, Patrick Sent from my BlackBerry®
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