Below are some questions that ask you about how you learn and what activities you find valuable to do in class. It should only take a few minutes to complete this survey. We would appreciate honest answers about your valuations -- not what you think an instructor would want to hear. Your answers to these questions may help us improve instruction. Your answers on these questions will not affect your grade in any way in this or any other class, except that you will receive credit for completing the survey. For each item please select one of the following responses. The possible responses are: Agree Agree Somewhat Can't Decide Disagree Somewhat Disagree or you can choose Irrelevant to me Don't know About Learning: Question 1 Agree 2 Agree Somewhat 3 Can't Decide 4 Disagree Somewhat 5 Disagree Irrelevant to me Don't know 1) When I am reading the textbook I stop from time to time to think about ideas. 2) It's more useful for me to study a (correctly) worked example than to try to do a problem by myself. 3) It is valuable for me to memorize solutions to sample problems. 4) When studying, I often just go through the motions without seeing where I am going. 5) Talking with other students helps me develop my understanding. 6) When learning a subject, it is enough to acquire facts and information. 7) Looking at a solution helps me understand concepts. 8) In learning about a subject, it is important to get a sense of what goes on "behind the scenes". 9) I usually set out to understand for myself the meaning of what I am learning. 10) Getting feedback on my work helps me improve my ways of learning and studying. 11) A good set of notes is a record of what the instructor said. 12) It is important for me to be able to describe what it is I don't understand. About class meetings/lectures: Question 1 Agree 2 Agree Somewhat 3 Can't Decide 4 Disagree Somewhat 5 Disagree Irrelevant to me Don't know 12) It's useful to discuss problems or concepts brought up during class with others after class. 14) During class, it is important to be prompted to think about how well I am learning and how I might improve. 15) It's useful to spend class time listening to the instructor work sample problems. 16) Reviewing the work of other students outside of class is of little value. 17) This question just exists to find people who are filling in the questions without reading them. Please select 4/Disagree Somewhat to have your answers to the survey counted. 18) It's useful to spend class time listening to what other students say. 19) When students participate or ask questions during class, it helps me learn. 20) I rarely develop an understanding in class -- understanding happens outside of class. 21) An important reason to come to class is to have a good set of notes. 22) During class, it is important for me to follow the argument, or to see the reasons behind things. 23) It's useful to spend class time listening to the instructor explain material in the textbook. 24) It's useful to spend class time having students work problems. 25) It's useful to spend class time listening to the instructor discuss student work. 26) It's useful when the instructor utilizes student input during class. 27) During class, it is important that students support each other and try to give help when it is needed.
Your answers on these questions will not affect your grade in any way in this or any other class, except that you will receive credit for completing the survey.
For each item please select one of the following responses. The possible responses are:
About Learning:
About class meetings/lectures: