Please complete the following questions. Please take time to reflect upon each of these questions before answering them. This is worth thirty (30) points to you, so the more energy you put into it the more points you will be awarded. A paragraph for each would be warranted.
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1. As a reader, what strengths have you gained? What weaknesses do you still
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2. What were the three most important items you learned about yourself as a student in English 96? | |
3. Where have you improved the most? Where do you still need to improve? | |
4. What do you feel best about (or proudest of) when you look back on your time in English 96? | |
5. If you were to give yourself some words of advice as a reader and as a reader/writer, what would they be? | |
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1. What do you feel you contributed to the class? | |
2. If you were to evaluate your overall performance in English 96, would you give yourself a grade of A, B, or C. Why? |
(1 is a low level of difficulty and 5 is a high level of difficulty.)
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(1 means, "No, not at all," and 5 means, "Yes, definitely.")
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(1 indicates complete disagreement; 5 indicates complete agreement.)
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(1 indicates 1.0+, 2=2+, 3=3+, 4=4.0+, 5=I'm not sure.)
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Rate the following learning tools for their overall effectiveness in helping you achieve the goal of reading more efficiently and more effectively. Your answers here will help me determine which tools are working and which are not, so please think carefully and be honest.
(The tools are not being compared to one another; I am just determining what works and what doesn't.)
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helpful; 5 indicates very
helpful.)
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How do you rate group created tests?
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How do you rate web-enhanced learning?
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How do you rate lectures
about various topics, such fiction elements?
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How do you rate eliminating prepositions to find the key idea in a sentence?
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How do you rate the process of reading as a method of understanding how a reader learns?
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Dear Students, I want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to those of you who were patient and kind to me during my times of duress this quarter. I know my human frailties were very apparent to everyone this quarter, and around mid-term, I had to make a command decision about whether it would be better to have a substitute for the rest of the quarter when another tooth became abscessed, my mother went back into the hospital, and I was involved in a car wreck. However, only one teacher on the campus teaches reading as I do, and she already had a class at the 10:30 hour, so any teacher who have taken over for me would have had to change absolutely everything about the class, which research tells us, is very traumatic to students. Moreover, I was very plain at the beginning of the quarter that this would be a web-based class, so I assumed everyone who stayed in the class was using the computer lab to access grades, check assignments, etc. Thus, I decided to stay.
I know some of you were sorry that I did, yet those of you who continued on despite the adversity learned quite a lot. I can see it in the last tests we took the other day, in the exercises you've turned in, and in the questions I am being asked. Those who chose to focus on my failings instead of on the material being offered have not gained as much, I'm sorry to say. Yet, all of us are getting ready to call it quits for this quarter, and I want to say thank you. I have never in my entire teaching career been as scattered, depressed, and ill -- I feel very sad that you had to have me as a teacher during my time of mini-crisis; however, I know there is a power in this universe who is in charge of the whole shebang...you, me, the class, the school...the I had to trust that this power was taking care of all of us. Did you suffer because I wasn't on my game at all times...I don't think so? You may have become confused. You may have had to deal with ambiguity. However, I know those things happen even at the best of times.
I guess what I am trying to say here in a rather long-winded fashion is thank you for standing by me when the going got tough. If I can help you as you become more accustomed to college and the academic classroom, let me know, and I will do my best. Good luck to you and may you experience this world in all its glory, despite confusion and order.
Good luck to you as you trudge the wondrous life of academia,
Dr. Jan