Dr Tom Kerns
North Seattle Community College

Guidelines
for

Your Mid-quarter Self-Evaluation

self-evaluation homepage

 

General grading policy


  
Two or three midterm self-evaluations
  of your work in this class will be required. Two or three weeks
  into the quarter I will ask you to email me your responses to
  the following questions.

  
Please remember: You will need to keep 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 final 
    grade.

  
You must use this downloadable 
    Form for completing your Midterm Self Evaluation. Please 
    download it here, complete the required information, and turn it in to 
    me by the deadline.

  
 

  
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
  book-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?

  
section 3: 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.

  
section 4: An exact record of all
  study question assignments and dates due.

  a. Have you done the assignments?

  b. Have you done them on time?

  

    
section 5: 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 Socrates' guilt. 3 posts over four days

     Discussion Q on civil disobedience, 5 posts over 3 days

     etc

  
section 6: Have you done other
  related writing this quarter? Journals? Short papers? Personal
  reflections? Emails to friends/family about philosophical issues?

  
section 7: Have you gotten your
  Research project OK'd with the instructor yet? Was it OK'd on
  time (end of the fourth week)? (Don't forget to complete a detailed
  self-evaluation of your project when it has been completed. See
  the page for project SE guidelines.)

  
section 8: Tests and exams. Show
  me a record of how you have done so far on each exam & quiz.

  
section 9: Keep a complete record
  of how you've done on the memorization and recitation of your
  quotes. 

  a. What percent of them have you completed?

  b. What percent of them did you complete on time?

  
section 10: Have you done any other
  "extras" so far that are related to this course?

  
section 11: Have you taken good
  notes on your readings, or scribbled marginal notes?

  
section 12: 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 philosophy 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? A good way to do this might be to to
    have two vertical columns (if your computer allows you to do
    this); in the left column list the criteria, and in the right
    column write how you have done so far against each criterion.
    (Or any other arrangement that works for you.) Be pretty complete
    on this one.

  
 

  
section 13: Now given all this,
  what grade do you think you are earning for this course so far?
  (Please figure your grade on the 4.0 scale.) Please give your
  reasons for this estimate.

  
And finally,

          
section 14: What recommendations would you make 
            to yourself in order to do even better in the remaining weeks of this 
            quarter?