PNI END-OF-QUARTER EVALUATION GUIDE – write thoughtful answers to the following questions, and put these at the front of your portfolio, which is due 3 days before your evaluation conference.

Your answers to these questions should also help formulate your draft self evaluation; bring your self eval and your faculty evals for both of us to the conference.
 
 

Discuss your class attendance, attention, ability to follow various parts and active participation. Which weeks did you miss class?

About how many hours per week did you put into PNI studies outside of class?

What fraction of your time went into immunology, what into neurobiology, what into integration of the two and psychology/emotions?
 
 

What aspects of the class were most interesting to you? Give some detailed examples.
 
 

What parts were most challenging, and what do you feel about how you handled them?
 
 

Discuss in some detail your work in immunology – use of the book and other sources, what you feel you learned best, integration with past work, what helped most with that learning and with realizing how much you had learned.
 
 

Discuss in some detail your work in neurobiology– use of the coloring book, "Zebras" and other sources, what you feel you learned best, integration with past work, what helped most with that learning and with realizing how much you had learned.
 
 

Discuss in some detail your work on your research project – how you chose your topic, how you approached it, how well your group functioned together, how much you learned, how you felt about your presentation and your paper.
 
 

Discuss your participation in terms of the Web Crossing portion of the class – as contributor and as a benefactor and integrator of the work of others. (Include here your book reading, review and response to others and the Herpes virus discussions.)

Discuss one topic besides "your own" project about which you felt you learned important things, and summarize some of the key aspects and questions as sophisticatedly as possible.

Discuss how your previous academic work and life experience contributed to your ability to deal with the material and how far you have progressed. Where will you take it from here?

What outside factors particularly enhanced or challenged your ability to learn this quarter?