A meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Education Committee
CSE Education Committee 24/09)
will be held at noon on Friday, 13 September 2024,
on Teams only, to prevent spread of illness.
Enquiries concerning this agenda should be directed to John Shepherd, jas@cse.unsw.edu.au.
John Shepherd
Committee Chair
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2 mins | 1. Opening of Meeting, recording of those present, and apologies
Apologies: Tina Tuomikoski, Raymond Louie, Michael Thielscher, Gelareh Mohammadi |
John Shepherd | ||||||||||||
2 mins | 2. Confirmation of Minutes of Previous Meeting held on 07 August 2024 | John Shepherd | ||||||||||||
6 mins | 3. Review of Action Sheet | John Shepherd | ||||||||||||
ITEMS FOR DECISION | ||||||||||||||
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15 mins | 5.1 Software Engineering Review Fethi has recently conducted a review of the Software Engineering degree. |
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10 mins | 5.2 Student Requests to Review Exams After results are released we invariably receive emails like "My results do not accurately reflect my understanding of this course. Can I see my exam paper to see where I went wrong?" Different courses have different ways of handling this. Some publish marks for individual questions before final results are released. Some send individual question marks in response to queries like the above. Some simply check the marking and say that all questions were marked according to the marking scheme, or make adjustments (up or down) if not. I'm not sure if anyone actually goes through papers with students. Should we have a school-wide approach to this? |
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10 mins | 5.3 Thesis Presentations and HDR Reviews Many (most?) thesis presentations and HDR reviews are nowadays carried out via Teams. Often this results in students reading from a script, looking down at the script, without practising real presentation skills. Should we require that all such presentations be given in-person? To an audience of more than just supervisor and assessor? |
Sequoiah-Grayson |
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10 mins | 5.4 "Advanced" Courses (again!) Once again, the Faculty has expressed scepticism that some of the courses that we call "advanced" are actually "advanced" by their definition, which I think amounts to AQF8/9. Can we devise a bullet-proof definition of advanced and then apply it to produce a set of courses that neither the Faculty nor the accreditation bodies can argue with? |
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10 mins | 5.5 3778 (Comp Sci) Course Rules The Computer Science program has two rules which seem to be causing consternation outside the School:
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10 mins | 5.6 MyExperience 24T2
Outstanding results:
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10 mins | 5.7 Assessment Review 24T2 Some statistics:
Common feature: in-term assessments scored high; exams (invigilated) scored low. As usual: many thesis results were submitted late; must try to do better. |
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5 mins | 6.1. Report(s) from Committees outside CSE | Anybody | ||||||||||||
5 mins | 6.2. Report on Cyber Security Programs Working Group | Salil Kanhere | ||||||||||||
5 mins | 6.3. Report on UNSW Online | |||||||||||||
5 mins | 6.4. Report on Workload Committee/Formula | |||||||||||||
ANY OTHER BUSINESS | ||||||||||||||
7. Closure |