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State Your Case!
Student Learning Questionnaire
Stating and supporting an argument or point of view effectively requires many different skills.The purpose of this questionnaire is to discover what you know about these skills and how you learned about them. For the items to which you respond “A moderate amount” or “A great deal,” please indicate the context in which you learned how to practice this skill and describe the learning experience that helped you the most.
Information about you
1.Please indicate your classification:
First-year student
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Other
2.Please indicate your major:
Majoring in the discipline or interdisciplinary field of this course
Majoring in a different disciplinary or interdisciplinary field
Have not yet chosen a major
How much do you know about each of the following? What helped you learn about it?
1.How to evaluate the quality of an argument someone else is making
Nothing
A little
A moderate amount
A great deal
If you selected “a moderate amount” or “a great deal,” please indicate where you learned the most about how to do this:
In this course
In another course or learning environment
Please describewhat promoted this learning – a specific reading, handout, activity, or assignment:
2.How to evaluate and choose evidence that supports your own argument or point of view
Nothing
A little
A moderate amount
A great deal
If you selected “a moderate amount” or “a great deal,” please indicate where you learned the most about how to do this:
In this course
In another course or learning environment
Please describewhat promoted this learning – a specific reading, handout, activity, or assignment:
3.How to identify assumptions or premises in an argument
Nothing
A little
A moderate amount
A great deal
If you selected “a moderate amount” or “a great deal,” please indicate where you learned the most about how to do this:
In this course
In another course or learning environment
Please describewhat promoted this learning – a specific reading, handout, activity, or assignment:
4.How to use numerical or quantitative data to support an argument or point of view
Nothing
A little
A moderate amount
A great deal
If you selected “a moderate amount” or “a great deal,” please indicate where you learned the most about how to do this:
In this course
In another course or learning environment
Please describe what promoted this learning – a specific reading, handout, activity, or assignment:
5.How to develop a clear thesis or central claim
Nothing
A little
A moderate amount
A great deal
If you selected “a moderate amount” or “a great deal,” please indicate where you learned the most about how to do this:
In this course
In another course or learning environment
Please describewhat promoted this learning – a specific reading, handout, activity, or assignment:
6.How to reason logically
Nothing
A little
A moderate amount
A great deal
If you selected “a moderate amount” or “a great deal,” please indicate where you learned the most about how to do this:
In this course
In another course or learning environment
Please describewhat promoted this learning – a specific reading, handout, activity, or assignment:
7.How to locate credible evidence through research
Nothing
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A moderate amount
A great deal
If you selected “a moderate amount” or “a great deal,” please indicate where you learned the most about how to do this:
In this course
In another course or learning environment
Please describe what promoted this learning – a specific reading, handout, activity, or assignment:
8.How to convey an argument or point of view visually (on a poster, in powerpoint slides, etc.)
Nothing
A little
A moderate amount
A great deal
If you selected “a moderate amount” or “a great deal,” please indicate where you learned the most about how to do this:
In this course
In another course or learning environment
Please describe what promoted this learning – a specific reading, handout, activity, or assignment:
9.How to write persuasively
Nothing
A little
A moderate amount
A great deal
If you selected “a moderate amount” or “a great deal,” please indicate where you learned the most about how to do this:
In this course
In another course or learning environment
Please describe what promoted this learning – a specific reading, handout, activity, or assignment:
10.How to speak persuasively
Nothing
A little
A moderate amount
A great deal
If you selected “a moderate amount” or “a great deal,” please indicate where you learned the most about how to do this:
In this course
In another course or learning environment
Please describe what promoted this learning – a specific reading, handout, activity, or assignment:
11.Below is a list of the proficiencies described in the preceding questions. Please mark the appropriate boxes for those proficiencies (if any) about which you learned something in this course and then applied, or plan to apply,that learning in another course(or other learning environment, such as an internship or service-learning experience:
I plan to apply something I learned in this course to another course in the future / I have already applied something I learned in this course to another courseEvaluating someone else’s argument or point of view
Identifying assumptions or premises
Evaluating and choosing evidence to support an argument or point of view
Using numerical or quantitative data to support an argument or point of view
Developing a clear thesis or central claim
Reasoning logically
Locating credible evidence through research
Conveying an argument or point of view visually
Writing persuasively
Speaking persuasively
12.Please add any other thoughts and observations about your knowledge and experience in stating and supporting a point of view.