- Answer the following questions by clicking the button in front of the answer. Mark the most appropriate answer to the multiple-choice questions. (There may be more than one "correct" answer to the question!) After you have completed the Evaluation, click on the link, "Correct Assessment", at the end of the questions. You will get an immediate response informing you of the percentage of your answers that were correct. You will also see the answers that were incorrect; questions that you left blank will be marked "undefined". If you do not make 100% on this Evaluation, you should note your mistakes, study the Learning Modules and discover the origin of those mistakes, and retake the Evaluation -- do this until you receive 100%
- LEARNING EXERCISES USING MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: Play "CYBER JEOPARDY " with the three incorrect answers for each question, i.e. think up a question to which each is the correct answer. This way you should have sufficient questions that require you to "think" and thus prepare yourself for the coming test! (Besides, you will be doing exactly what I will be doing when I create Assessment 1!)
- Note that the following questions are more difficult than typical "test questions". This is by design because this is NOT A TEST; it is an exercised designed TO PREPARE YOU FOR AN ASSESSMENT! Because many of the multiple choice answers are (by design) similar to one another, selecting the correct answer requires that you know the DIFFERENCE between the four choices, i.e. IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO KNOW THE DEFINITIONS of the words; you must UNDERSTAND what they represent. You probably will not be able to answer all (or even most!) of the following questions without rereading the text and my notes. Don't feel bad; that is the purpose of a "PREassessment! It is designed to help you GO BEYOND KNOWLEDGE to UNDERSTANDING!
- TPQ: Eliminate the "best answer" and see if other answers apply.
2/10/07 
ONLINE PREASSESSMENT 120-1
(An OPPORTUNITY to detect and correct things you don't understand!)
Assessment 1 in COSC 120 will cover Learning
Modules I and II. The assessment will be derived directly
from the following preassessment questions. I will take 10
questions directly from the preassessment questions or proficiency
evaluation questions and place them as questions 41 - 50 on Assessment
1. Then I will rewrite questions 1 - 40; I may change some
answers, but the correct answer to the question will remain, e.g. the
correct answer to question 1 on Assessment 1 will be one of the four
you see below. So, you have the answers; you just don't know
the questions. (However, DO NOT
assume that this will be "easy"; it will be a challenging learning
exercise!) In order to prepare for the Assessment, do
the following (as we cover the relevant material....NOT the
night before it is due!).
Note that, since these questions are online and self checking, you do
NOT have to turn them in - they are simply a way to help you "learn
from your mistakes" and prepare for the subequesnt assessment.)