5/15/01

    COSC 330 PROFICIENCY EVALUATION
    A "PUBLIC" FINAL (EXIT) EXAM
    (An Final OPPORTUNITY to detect and correct IMPORTANT CONCEPTS you don't fully understand!)

     One of the things that upsets me most about "Formal Education" is the fact that students are not allowed to see the mistakes they make on their final exam much less have the opportunity to learn form those mistakes (a central feature of my learning philosophy).  As a compromise, I have devised a mechanism that allows me to give final exam feedback to students completing the course.  It is a "public final exam" represented by this Proficiency Evaluation.  This will evolve into the "best" final exam I can write, an optimal collection of the most important questions in the subject.  {expand explanation .....}  This evaluation covers essential knowledge that passing COSC 330 requires. ....

To consider yourself proficient in knowledge and understanding of Cyberspace concepts, you should be able to answer all of the following questions. You should also be familiar with all the other answers that are associated with Cyberspace and be able to recognize the few answers that have noting to do with the subject ("nonsense answers").  (Since this evaluation is to provide you, individually, with information on your proficiency in the subject, you should NOT prejudice your feedback.  Therefore, DO NOT GUESS on questions whose answers you do not know;  leave them blank; they will be listed as "undefined" when you check the evaluation.  Select the button corresponding to the most appropriate answer to each of the following multiple-choice questions.  Note that it is also important to realize that knowing (and understanding) the answers to these question may be enough for "proficiency" but it is not enough for "mastery"; for mastery you should (1) understand the other possible question answers (that are not the correct answer to the particular question) as well as (2) recognize those answers which are "nonsense answers", i.e. that have nothing to do with the course subject matter.

NOTE: In addition to the following questions, important questions on the PreAssessments include:

  • PreAssessment 1: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, 37, and 40.
  • PreAssessment 2:  1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 13, 17, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34, and 36.
  • PreAssessment 3:  2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 21, 23, 26, 30, 33, 37, 38, and 40.
These PreAssessment questions (as well a important questions on the assessments; see the debriefs) are of the same importance as those below, so make sure you are comfortable with the answers to all of them.
 

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