PREASSESSMENT 330-3
    (An OPPORTUNITY to detect and correct things you don't understand!)

     Assessment 3 in COSC 330 will cover Learning Modules VI-X.  The assessment will be derived directly from the following preassessment questions.  I will take 10 questions directly from the preassessment and/or proficiency evaluation questions and place them as questions 41 - 50 on Assessment 3.   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 3 will be one of the four or five  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!).  You do not have to submit anything from the preassessment; just study your mistakes and take the preassessment over and over until you are comfortable with all the questions -- just don't cheat yourself by guessing!)
  1. Answer the following questions by clicking on the appropriate button. Choose the most appropriate answer to the multiple-choice questions. (There may be more than one "correct" answer to the question!) 
  2. LEARNING EXERCISES USING MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: Play "WEB JEOPARDY" with the other 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 2!) 
  3. Note that the following questions are more difficult than typical "test questions". This is by design because this is NOT A TEST; it is a diagnostic tool 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! 
  4. TPQ: Eliminate the "best answer" and see if other answers apply. 

Correct PreAssessment