Environment and Human Rights
Dr Tom 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 I would not normally have any way of verifying (though some of them I can verify). We are operating on an honor code here, and I am 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 book or essay reading assignments so far and the dates due.

  1. Did you do the assignment? What percent of it? b. Did you do it on time?

Book

/ date due / % read by due date / misc

Summary:

Section 3: An exact record of online 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.

  1. Have you done the assignments? b. Have you done them on time?

Study Questions

/ date due / % done by due date / Misc

Summary:

section 6: An accurate record of your completion of online Discussion Question assignments and dicussion of the Case Studies. 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 definition of ethics and morality: 3 posts over four days. Case Study on torture, 5 posts over 3 days, etc.

Discussion Question / number of posts / early in week?

Summary:

section 7: Reading other people's postings.

  1. Did you read everyone else's postings in the classroom? Approximately what percentage of them did you read?
  2. Did you read everyone else's postings in the study questions folder? Approximately what percentage of them did you read?
  3. Did you read everyone else's postings in the research projects folder? Approximately what percentage of them did you read?

a.) % of classroom postings I’ve read / b.) % SQ postings I’ve read / c.) % research project postings I’ve read

Summary:

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 gotten your Research project OKed with the instructor yet? Was it OKed on time (end of the Sunday of the fifth week)? (Don't forget to complete a detailed self-evaluation of your project when it has been turned in. See the page for project SE guidelines.)

Research project Oked? / Oked on time? / Project topic
clickYesNo / clickYesNo

section 10: Quizzes and exams. Show me a record of how you have done so far on each exam & quiz.

quiz or exam / your score

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:

  1. 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
  2. How have you done so far on each of those criteria? Be pretty complete on this one.

Criteria for grading / How I did / Miscellaneous
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section 14: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.

It would be a good idea to consult the grading guidelines on our class website when figuring your course grade.

Grade I probably deserve now / Reasons why I deserve this grade
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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: