Design Warmup 2: Make my visualizations: Grading Information

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This page explains the feedback for Design Warmup 2: Make my visualizations. Your feedback is a comment on your Canvas submission. For each item it gives the assessment, any codes, and comments, then an overall comment, the score, and the grade.

The biggest comment: this assignment was difficult to excel at - the grades were clustered in a very narrow range. Most students did well, but it was almost impossible to do “notably well” to score more than a borderline A. If you really succeeded at this assignment, you learned enough that you will be able to excel at DE2.

The goal of this assignment wasn’t to assess your visualization knowledge: it was to make sure you are ready for DE2.

GenAI Disclosure:

Most of this file was created by a script written by Claude based on the grading data.

Items

Some items cover several questions in the Canvas quiz; they are numbered Item 1, Item 2, and so on.

Item 1: Two Visualizations, Two Tools

  • Question 1: Upload Visualization 1
  • Question 2: Describe the tool you used for visualization 1 and how you did it. (a few sentences)
  • Question 3: Upload Visualization 2
  • Question 4: Describe the tool you used for visualization 2 and how you did it. (a few sentences)
  • Question 5: Compare the two. Did you hit roadblocks with one or the other? Looking ahead, how might y…

Item 2: Multi-Line Chart (Q6-8)

  • Question 6: upload your image (multi-line chart)
  • Question 7: Explain why a multi-line line chart is a reasonable choice. What tasks is the visualizati…
  • Question 8: Explain how you made the visualization. (a sentence or two - please be specific about lib…

Item 3: Milestone (Q9-11)

  • Question 9: Upload your visualization (milestone)
  • Question 10: Explain your choices for the visual designs. What does your visualization make easy to se…
  • Question 11: Explain how you made your visualization.

Item 4: Data Set Questions

  • Question 12: Give a question about the Life Expectancy data set for which the data is insufficient to …
  • Question 13: Give a question about the Life Expectancy data set that is likely to be sufficiently answ…
  • Question 14: Give a reason why a (good) visualization may still be worthwhile to create (e.g. it adds …

Item 5: Summary Questions

  • Question 15: How did you use AI tools in completing the assignment? Please be specific. If you didn’t …
  • Question 16: Provide the prompts that you used. If it’s too hard to put it into the type-in box, say t…
  • Question 17: What did you do to prevent AI from getting in the way of your learning? What did you do t…

Assessment scale

Each item is given one of these levels:

  • -2: Empty
  • -1: Incomplete
  • 0: Zero
  • 1: Poor
  • 2: Adequate
  • 3: Good
  • 4: Excellent
  • 5: Superlative

Codes

Codes are short labels for things we noticed, so the same observation gets the same name for everyone. A code is written like G:ADDDET: the letter before the colon is its valence (B = Bad, U = Ugly, N = Neutral, G = Good, S = Superlative). The letter shows how the code applies to your answer, which can differ from the code’s usual valence listed here. A code written without a letter, like :ADDDET, has its usual valence.

Ugly

  • NOPARTC No valid answer for Part C (Milestone Q9-11)
  • NOQ12 Insufficient answer for Q12
  • NOQ13 Insufficient answer for Q13
  • PARTCQ Insufficient answers for Part C (Milestone Q9-11) questions
  • SIMTOOLS Similar tools: The tools aren’t sufficiently different.

Good

  • ADDDET Added Details: Added details beyond the basic form
  • DESIGN Quality of the design
  • NOTEB Notable answer for Part B (Multi-Line)
  • NOTEC Notable answer for Part C (Milestone Q9-11)