Student Questionnaire Surveys

1. Effectiveness in teaching AI (0=ineffective, 10=very effective):
2. Usefulness as a reference book (0=useless, 10=very useful):
3. Overall readability (0=unreadable, 10=very readable):
4. Overall level of interest (0=boring, 10=fascinating):
5. Overall level of technical difficulty (0=easy, 10=impenetrable):
6. Your overall impression of the book:

Here are the the median scores on the questions, by school:

School	Effectiveness	Reference	Readability	Interest	Difficulty	Impressions	When
Berkeley	8	8	8	8	5	Impressions	Spr 95
Columbia	8	8	9	8	5	Impressions	Spr 95
Harvard	8	-	-	-	"right"	Comments	Spr 95
Oregon St.	9	8	8	8	5	Impressions	Fall 95
Pittsburgh	9	8	8	8	7	Impressions	Fall 95
Columbia	8	7	8	8	5	Impressions	Fall 95
Michigan	7	7	7	6	6	Impressions	Fall 95
Online Q.	8	8	9	8	4	Impressions	Fall 95
Totals	8	8	8	8	5	Impressions	1995

For Harvard, the book got an overall 4 on a 5 point scale, which we translate as 8 of 10.

Some other schools did student questionnaires that did not ask for numerical ratings, but did provide subjective student impressions.