The Idea Note/Marx and Berheide

 

Idea Notebook: Evaluation Form

 

 

The Idea Notebook

 

  1. The final section of your Idea Notebook is due in class on Wednesday, 10 December.   Please submit a hard copy of this section of your Idea Notebook.

 

  1. In addition to the last section, please complete the assessment on the back of this page, reflecting on your experience with the Idea Notebook.   You may write this as answers to individual questions or as a coherent essay.   Like the Idea Notebook, this assessment should be prepared on Microsoft Word and saved with your other Idea Notebook files.

 

  1. On Monday, 8 December, I will give each of you a blank 3.5-inch PC disk on which to transfer ALL of your Idea Notebook files.   Please copy your files to this disk and hand in your disk along with the other materials on Wednesday, 10 December.

 

 

Assessment

 

PART I

  1. How appropriate now is the taxonomy you created at mid-term of the kinds of thinking your writings demonstrate?  Are there any new categories you would like to add?   Are there any you would remove?   Which approach (es) did you follow most frequently?
  2. As a part of your Mid-Term assessment, you gave yourself recommendations for strengthening the critical thinking component of our Idea Notebook. What effect did these recommendations have on how you approached this final section of your Idea Notebook?  What is your assessment of the quality of critical thinking reflected in your last section of your Idea Notebook?

 

PART II

  1. How did keeping an Idea Notebook differ for you from keeping a journal or diary in other academic classes?
  2. What did you learn about your own thought processes, patterns, and critical thinking from keeping an Idea Notebook?
  3. How valuable was the metacognitive task of thinking about your thinking?  What did you gain from this experience?
  4. What contribution did the Idea Notebook make to your experience with the new LS 1 curriculum?
  5. In the original assignment (http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/ls1tutors/ideanotebook.html), I explained that the Idea Notebook

·      Is a tool for intellectual engagement

·      Emphasizes your ideas and the thinking embodied in them

·      Provides a place for you to respond to LS 1 materials and then to reflect    on the thinking--your thought patterns and thought processes--embodied in your responses

            How well did the Idea Notebook fulfill these purposes?

 

PART III

  1. Would you use the dual column approach of the Idea Notebook (or adaptations of it) for other courses?  Why or why not?
  2. Do you think first-year students should keep an Idea Notebook as part of LS 1?  How might keeping the Idea Notebook enhance the LS 1 experience?  How might it detract from the experience of the course?
  3. What changes in the Idea Notebook would you recommend for next yearıs ID 201H class or for use in sections of LS 1?
  4. Do you recommend that I retain the Idea Notebook as a part of ID 201H next fall?  Why or why not?