Although you will have to enter your Name so we can give you credit, we will not be looking at your answers until all the grades are submitted. Your answers will have no impact on your grade for this course.
To receive the 3 participation points you must complete the entire evaluation.
Please answer these questions honestly. We will be using the results of this assessment to modify the course for future classes.
0. What is your gender? (select one) Male Female
1. In what UIC College are you enrolled? (select one) Applied Health Sciences Architecture & the Arts Business Administration Dentistry Education Engineering Graduate College Honors College Liberal Arts & Sciences Medicine Nursing Pharmacy Public Health Social Work Urban Planning & Public Affairs Other
2. What is your major? (select one) Declared psychology major Declared other major Undeclared but considering psychology Undeclared but not considering psychology Non-degree seeking Other
3. What is your current year in school? (select one) 1st undergrad 2nd undergrad 3rd undergrad 4th undergrad 5 + undergrad Graduate school Other
4. What is your cumulative GPA? (select a range) 3.5 - 4 3.0 - 3.49 2.5 - 2.99 2.0 - 2.49 0 - 1.99
5. What are your plans for future education? (select a range) Graduate School in Cognitive Psychology Graduate School in Psychology Other Graduate School Professional School (Med, MBA, Law, etc.) No more school, I am getting a job
6. Are you a full time Student? No Yes
7. How many credit hours did you take this term? (select one) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 other
8. Did you have a job this term?No Yes
9. If you had a job or other major commitment (besides being a student), what was it?
10. How many hours a week did your job or other major commitment take up? (select one) 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-35 36-40 41-45 46-50
16. Briefly, what are your long-term career goals?
18. How many psychology courses have you taken? (select one) 0 1 2 3 4 5 or more
19. How many other science (non-psychology) courses have you taken? (select one) 0 1 2 3 4 5 or more
20. Before this class, have you ever taken a course on cognition or memory? Yes No
21. Have you ever taken a study skills course? Yes No
23. Where did you complete most of the assignments? Home School Computer Lab Friend's House Library Internet Cafe or other Store (e.g. Kinkos)
Expectations 24. Based on the grades you have received so far in this class, what do you think your final grade for this course will be? (select one) A (4.0) B (3.0) C (2.0) D (1.0) E (0.0) 11. Is the grade you think you will be getting now different than the grade you thought you were going to get at the beginning of the term? No Yes
12. If it is, why is that the case?
13. Did anything happen this term that prevented you from doing better in this course? No Yes
14. If so, what happened and how did it prevent you from doing better in this course?
210. How easy was it for you to access the internet to access the course website? (select one) Very Difficult Difficult Neutral Easy Very easy
29. How frequently did you use the main course web site each week? (select one) 0 times 1 - 2 times 3 - 4 times 5 - 6 times 7 - 8 times 9 - 10 times
30. Do you have any comments about the syllabus including things you liked and/or suggestions for improvement?
31. Do you have any comments about the course website including things you liked and/or suggestions for improvement?
32. Please rate the pace with which topics were covered during lecture: (select one) very slow slow appropriate fast very fast
36. How many class lectures did you miss during the term? (select an option) 0 1 - 2 3 - 4 5 - 6 7 - 8 9 - 10 11 or more
Which 3 lecture/class topics did you like the most (Check 3): 37. Introduction including history and neuroscience basics 38. Perception including sensory memory
39. Attention and automaticity
40. STM & WM
211. Episodic LTM
42. Semantic LTM
43. Interactions in LTM (schema, flashbulbs, false memories)
212. Language basics
45. Dyslexia
46. Language 2: reading, comprehension, conceptual combination
47. Memory and cognitive aging
48. Reasoning & decision making
49. Problem solving & insight
50. Expertise & creativity
51. Skill acquisition, learning, & intelligence
Which 3 lecture/class topics did you like the least (Check 3): 52. Introduction including history and neuroscience basics 53. Perception including sensory memory
54. Attention and automaticity
55. STM & WM
56. Episodic LTM
57. Semantic LTM
58. Interactions in LTM (schema, flashbulbs, false memories)
59. Language basics
60. Dyslexia
61. Language 2: reading, comprehension, & conceptual combination
62. Memory and cognitive aging
63. Reasoning & decision making
64. Problem solving & insight
65. Expertise & creativity
66. Skill acquisition, learning, & intelligence
67. Please offer any other comments you have about the best or worst aspects of the lecture topics including any suggestions for improving them for future classes (also please comment on the use of outlines of class notes posted on the website):
The Readings
Please rate how interesting you found of each reading.
15. Which reading was your LEAST favorite?
(select one) McCarley et al. (2004) airport screening Strayer and Johnston (2001) cell phone Beilock and Carr (2005) WM and chocking under pressure Ogden and Corkin (1991) HM Tulving et al. (1988) KC Lewandowsky et al. (2005) Memory for Iraq war Ryan et al. (2002) caffeine Shaywitz (1996) dyslexia Roberts and Kreuz (1994) figurative language Klein (1999) firefighters German and Barrett (2005) functional fixedness Hecht and Proffitt (1995) expertise with liquids
212. Which readings was your 2nd LEAST favorite?
Please rate the effectiveness of the readings, reading worksheets and class discussions of them in terms their contribution to:
206. your understanding of course content (select one) Very little Less than average Average More than average A great deal
207. your understanding of the nature of scientific evidence (select one) Very little Less than average Average More than average A great deal
208. your ability to critically read and evaluate scientific journal articles (select one) Very little Less than average Average More than average A great deal
92. Please offer any other comments about the best and worst aspects of the reading assignments and reading worksheets, such as using them instead of a textbook to learn the content. Do you think you benefited from completing the worksheets prior to class and discussing them in class? What else might we have done to maximize the benefit of reading original articles? Anything about our approach that you might change? If so, why?
205. Did you like having a suggestion for a textbook to supplement the readings? If you used a supplemental text, which text did you use, how often did you use it, and was it helpful? How? Please explain.
In-class Demonstrations
93. Personal FB memory: first kiss
108. Please offer any other comments about the best and worst aspects of the demonstrations, including any that really stuck out as interesting or useful:
The Quizzes
114. Please offer any other comments about the best and worst aspects of the quizzes:
Assignments
Which assignments did you do (check all that apply): 115. Mandatory Online assignment 116. Dr. P. and Mrs. S. 117. Memento 118. Memory Diary 119. Sex differences in conversation 120. Participate in cognitive psychology research
128. Please offer any other comments about the best and worst aspects of the assignments including suggestions for changes:
77. What did you think of the option to choose 3 of the 5 assignments to complete?
General Stuff About the Course
17. Please define "scientific evidence" in a sentence or two.
41. What did you learn about the scientific process and the nature of evidence through the reading worksheets and discussions, assignments, and other other class activities? Which of these contributed most to your learning and how?
44. What was your favorite aspect of this course and why? Please explain?
Why did you take this course? (check all that apply) 129. It was a requirement 130. It was an elective 131. A suggestion from a friend 132. A suggestion from a TA or professor 133. Interest in a particular cognitive issue (What?) 134. General curiosity about the course 135. To improve your own memory and thinking 136. To understand the problems you or others have with memory and thinking 137. Other (Why?)
148. Please rate the work expectations of students in this course: (select one) Very low Less than average Average More than average Very high
How much work was required per week outside of class for each of the following activities? 149. Reading the articles: (select one) 30 min or less 30 min to 1 hr 1 to 2 hrs 2 to 3 hours 3 to 4 hours 4 to 5 hrs 5 hrs or more 150. Reading worksheets: (select one) 30 min or less 30 min to 1 hr 1 to 2 hrs 2 to 3 hours 3 to 4 hours 4 to 5 hrs 5 hrs or more 151. Reviewing Notes: (select one) 30 min or less 30 min to 1 hr 1 to 2 hrs 2 to 3 hours 3 to 4 hours 4 to 5 hrs 5 hrs or more
How much time over the course of the semester did you spend on the following activities: 152. Assignments: (select one) 30 min or less 30 min to 1 hr 1 to 2 hrs 2 to 3 hours 3 to 4 hours 4 to 5 hrs 5 hrs or more 153. Studying for quizzes: (select one) 30 min or less 30 min to 1 hr 1 to 2 hrs 2 to 3 hours 3 to 4 hours 4 to 5 hrs 5 to 6 hrs 6 to 7 hrs 7 to 8 hrs 8 to 9 hrs 9 to 10 hrs 10 or more hours
154. Please rate the overall speed of grading turn around: (select one) very slow slow moderate fast very fast
155. Please rate the overall quality of feedback on graded items: (select one) very poor poor moderate good very good
109. What did you think about the policies of no late reading worksheets or make-up quizzes and dropping of the lowest quiz and reading worksheet grade?
209. What did you think about the extra-credit participation points?
156. Please share any other comments about grading:
157. Please rate the amount of information that you learned in this course: (select one) Very little Less than average Average More than average A great deal
159. Would you recommend this course to other students? Yes No
160. Why or why not?
161. What is the most important thing you learned in this course?
162. Were the syllabus objectives met?: (select one) strong no mild no neutral mild yes strong yes
163. How would you design this course differently, based on what we have learned over the course of the term?
164. Did you improve your study skills over the course of the term? If so, did anything we do help you in that process?
The Professor
173. Would you recommend her courses to other students? (select one) Very unlikely unlikely neutral likely very likely
145. What were Trina's strengths and weaknesses as a lecturer?
Greg (the TA)
186. Would you recommend his courses to other students? (select one) Very unlikely unlikely neutral likely very likely
187. Do you have any other comments about having Greg as a TA?
Jordan (the other TA)
201. Would you recommend his courses to other students? (select one) Very unlikely unlikely neutral likely very likely
202. Do you have any other comments about having Jordan as a TA?
203. What were Jordan's strengths and weaknesses as a lecturer?
204. Do you have any other comments about the course you want to share with us?
205. Enter your NAME: