Evaluation

End of quarter (and end of year) activities

The last 2 weeks in fall and winter are dedicated to voluntary presentation of reports by students who plan to leave the program in fall or winter, or by students who are staying in the program but just would like to report their learning. If you are not leaving the program in fall or winter, it has been helpful for some to voluntarily present a report on your project as it is, as a work in progress. In spring, final learning summary seminars for everyone start in week five.

Spring quarter:
- Week 5 to week 8 from 1 pm to 2 pm every Tuesday and Thursday: presentations by learners who choose to make a presentation even if your project is to be finished only at the end of the year and learning summary seminars (required for everyone).
- Weeks 9 and 10 from 1 pm to 2 pm every Tuesday and Thursday: learning summary seminars. From 2 pm: presentations organized by learners.

Ending your participation in the  program:

If you choose to make a presentation, set up a presentation date (check the link syllabus in our program site, decide on a date and email to everyone in the program using the moodle site’s mass mailing function and to Bill.) You can invite your co-learners, family and friends to your project presentation.

Your participation in a learning summary seminar is required at the end of the year (or at the end of the quarter you are leaving the program). Participants in the Saturday Theory to Praxis workshops will have the last Saturday workshop in the spring available for learning summary seminar and presentations.

Before participating in a learning summary seminar, email your faculty team (each one of us):
- your academic essay in the third person (one page per quarter max.) about your own work.  This essay will address the credits you have worked for and describe the work you did.  This is your masterpiece in writing.

- If you choose to write a self evaluation (which is different from your academic essay) please set up a conference with one of us and, only after this final conference, hand in two signed hard copies of your formal self evaluation to Registration

Conferences and group conferences continue through out the academic year until evaluation week in spring. You either make an appointment or come to class and talk with one of us or with all of us.  Please bring with you the work you want to share with us.

Evaluation of Students by the Faculty

(From The Evergreen State College Faculty Handbook)

“Each evaluation should include not only text but also a list of ‘suggested course equivalencies’—setting out the equivalent work in quarter-hour credits as it might be described by a conventional institution.  A well-written evaluation of student work covers as many of the following elements as possible:

1.  command of information covered in the program or course;

2.  understanding of central ideas;

3.  imaginative and creative us of subject matter;

4.  ability to think, verbalize ideas and plan strategies for problem solving;

5.  writing ability;

6.  class contribution (preparation, attendance, participation);

7.  growth over the quarter (or year); and

8.  diligence and effort.

So far as possible, the text of the evaluation should relate clearly to the course equivalencies at the end.  That is, some comment should be included in the text to indicate what the level of the student’s performance was for each area of equivalency.”

The academic essay is one page per quarter.  All else being equal, shorter is better.

The academic essay is mailed to all three faculty members before the end of week 10.

The academic essay is NOT your self evaluation.

The academic essay should provide concrete information to be included in our evaluation of your work.

Your Team