Ways of Knowing
Hostetler & Kerns
Midterm Self Evaluation
Your Name: Date:
Please remember: You will need to keep precise records of everything you do related to this course during the quarter, because this is all to be very exact – no estimates or approximations (except for section 1). These materials will be a large determinant in my assigning your grade.
Some of the questions below ask you to report things that we would not normally have any way of verifying (though some of them we can verify). We are operating on an honor code here, and we are simply expecting that you will give completely truthful responses to these questions.
The Questions
section 1: An accurate estimate of the amount of time you've spent online per week.
section 2: An exact record of all text-reading assignments so far and the dates due.
a. Did you do the assignment? What percent of it? b. Did you do it on time?
Text
/ date due / % read by due date / miscSummary:
Section 3: An exact record of online mini-lectures that have been assigned so far and the dates due. a. Did you do the assignment? b. What percent of it? c. Did you do it on time?
Lecture
/ % read? / on time?Summary:
section 4 : A record of any extra reading you've done and whether or not you took notes on that reading, or discussed it at any length with others.
Extra reading
/ took notes on it? / discussed it with others?Summary:
section 5: An exact record of all study question assignments and dates due.
a. Have you done the assignments? b. Have you done them on time?
Study Questions
/ date due / % done by due date / MiscSummary:
section 6: An accurate record of your completion of online discussion assignments. Did you participate early in the week so that others could respond to your comments? Your answers to this question might look like this: Discussion Q on indirect communication: 3 posts over four days. Discussion Qs on Oedipus, 5 posts over 3 days, etc
Discussion Question / number of posts / early in week?Summary:
section 7: Reading other people's postings.
a. Did you read everyone else's postings in your seminar folder? Approximately what percentage of them did you read?
b. Did you read half of everyone else's postings in the study questions folder? Approximately what percentage of them did you read?
c. Did you read everyone else's postings in the other classroom folders? Approximately what percentage of them did you read?
a.) % of seminar group postings I’ve read / b.) % SQ postings I’ve read / c.) % all other postings I’ve readSummary:
section 8: Have you done other related writing this quarter? Journals? Short papers? Personal reflections? Emails to friends/family about philosophical issues?
Other related writings:
section 9: Have you completed your thesis paragraph assignments on time?
thesis #1 completed? / thesis #2 completed? / were they done on time?clickYesNo / clickYesNo
section 10: What would you say you have learned so far on these two writing assignments that could help you in future writing assignments?
section 11: Have you done any other "extras" so far that are related to this course?
Extras:
section 12: Have you taken good notes on your readings, or scribbled marginal notes?
Good notes?
section 13: Now here's where you do a self-evaluation in two parts:
a. What criteria do you think should be used to assess the progress and work of a student in a Coordinated Studies course such as this one, especially one done online? Include all criteria you think are important. And then
b. How have you done so far on each of those criteria? Be pretty complete on this one.
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section 14: Now given all this, what grade do you think you are earning for this twelve credit course so far? (Please figure your grade on the 4.0 scale.) Please give your reasons for this estimate.
Grade I probably deserve now / Reasons why I deserve this grade43210.9876543210
And finally,
section 15: What recommendations would you make to yourself in order to do even better in the remaining weeks of this quarter?
My recommendations to myself: