MCCA-MCGE
Title VI-A
Entry/Exit (Pre/Post) Classroom Assessment
Note to Faculty
The final four questions are optional (as the assessment was originally designed for a World Religions course) and other questions may be substituted for these four. Remember that Africa is the focus of this grant so the questions may be altered to reflect that focus specifically.
Any additional/substituted questions must be tested for validity. This assessment must be given at the beginning and end of a course modified or created for the Title VI-A project. Student data must be gathered in a way that protects students’ privacy and must be submitted to the grant co-Directors in such a way that individual student identities are not revealed. Nonetheless, the responses must be available for each question by the student in order to improve the analysis of the data. Data must be submitted to the grant co-Directors through Summer 2011.
Lisa Hollander Lisa Spaulding
Title VIA Grant
Classroom Assessment
Entry ______ Exit______
(please tick the appropriate time- beginning or end of semester )
Faculty Name______Date______
Course______College______
For each of the following, indicate whether you agree strongly, agree, are indifferent, disagree or strongly disagree with each statement.
1) I am interested in international events and acquire information about international developments when I can.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
2) It is important for Americans to learn foreign languages.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
3) When I hear that thousands of people are starving in an African country, I feel very frustrated.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
4) I feel a strong kinship with the worldwide human family.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
5) Learning a foreign language is unnecessary because English is spoken almost everywhere.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
6) If a student wears certain clothing for religious or cultural reasons, s/he should not be required to dress differently because of school or community rules.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
7) I am most comfortable with people from my own culture.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
8) The news media spends too much time on international news and issues and not enough on local and national news.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
9) I find the customs of foreigners difficult to understand.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
10) I make an effort to meet people from other nations.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
11) I rarely read news articles about international events.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
12) If I do read about international events, I rarely am interested in anything happening in Africa.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
13) I would enjoy staying in a foreign country for an extended period of time.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
14) I would enjoy staying in an African country for an extended period of time.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
15) I wish I had taken more advantage of the opportunity to learn another language.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
16) I have almost nothing in common with people in underdeveloped countries.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
17) We would be better off if our society didn't have so many different cultures as part of it.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
18) I would feel comfortable with a member of my family marrying someone from another culture.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
19) I personally would not go to Africa in the next year because I fear getting AIDS or some other disease.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
20) I would never visit Africa because I fear I would be physically attacked.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
Last four questions:
Some suggestions for new ones might include
All Africans speak the same language
All Africans are the same religion
I am tired of hearing about Africa’s problems of corrupt governments, constant warfare and genocide and millions of orphans
I don’t understand why the people of Africa are so poor and backward
21)A Christian prayer at a public meeting should be allowed if the majority of those attending are Christian, even if a sizable minority is not.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
22) Religious freedom is a basic human right and no government should be permitted to abridge it in any way.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
23) People in other religions would be likely to change if they heard the truth.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
24) Every person should have the right to worship as s/he pleases as long as it doesn't hurt others.
Strongly Agree
Agree
Indifferent
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
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