Student Evaluation on Year 11 - Evolution of Australian Biota

Please make comments as you feel appropriate, by answering the statement closest to your experience of the unit, or by adding your own statements where they are requested. This information will be used to help us with the presentation of the module next year.
Name: 


  1. Theory
    My record of the information covered is
    complete
    Missing one bit
    Missing around half
    Missing most of the information


  1. State which parts are missing


  1. 2. My record of the information covered is
    Clear and easy to understand
    Generally clear but some parts are hard to follow
    Disorganised and hard to understand
    incomplete


  1. Focus 1: Evidence for the rearrangement of crustal plates and continental drift indicates that Australia was once part of an ancient super continent.
    I think my understanding of some key concepts would be:
    Complete and well detailed
    Usually good
    Vague
    incomplete


  1. Focus 2: The changes in Australian flora and fauna over millions of years have happened through evolution.
    I think my understanding of some key concepts would be:
    Complete and well detailed
    Usually good
    Vague
    incomplete


  1. Focus 3: Continuation of species has resulted, in part, from the reproductive adaptations that have evolved in Australian plants and animals.
    I think my understanding of some key concepts would be:
    Complete and well detailed
    Usually good
    Vague
    incomplete


  1. Focus 4: A study of palaeontology and past environments increases our understanding of the possible future range of plants and animals.
    I think my understanding of some key concepts would be:
    Complete and well detailed
    Usually good
    Vague
    incomplete


  1. B. Experiments
    I found the experiments for this section to be:
    informative
    Usually related to the theory but occassionally not
    Only occassionally related to the theory
    Impossible to understand


  1. I found the experiments for this section to be:
    enjoyable
    Generally good
    Generally bad
    boring


  1. Rate your understanding of the techniques which you used during this module.
    Observing plant and animal fossils
    confident
    Ok, with a little advice
    Need lots of help
    Didn’t use


  1. Rate your understanding of the techniques which you used during this module.
    Using dichotomous keys
    confident
    Ok, with a little advice
    Need lots of help
    Didn’t use


  1. Rate your understanding of the techniques which you used during this module.
    Constructing dichotomous keys
    confident
    Ok, with a little advice
    Need lots of help
    Didn’t use


  1. Assessments
    Do you feel the assessments of this module allowed you to show your true understanding of the outcomes?
    yes
    Generally yes
    Generally no
    no


  1. References
    During this module you used many references to find information. How easy was it to find the information you required?
    easy
    Took some time, but the information was found
    Took a long time and only some of the information was good
    Took ages and I couldn’t get any decent information


  1. How reliable and accurate was the information you found?
    Relaible and accurate
    Generally OK, but some sources were less reliable than others
    Usually wrong, but occassionally some information was correct
    unrelaible and inaccurate


  1. Where did you find reliable information. Tick the sources.
    Textbooks
    newspapers
    internet
    portal
    library
    home
    talking with scientists or other people,
    TV
    CD Rom
    DVD
    other


  1. Teaching techniques
    There was a variety of methods used to help you to learn the information for this module. Tick the strategies that were most effective for you
    Experiments
    group work
    individual work
    teacher explanation
    teacher.class discussion
    one on one help
    revision classes
    videos
    audio
    animations
    smartbaord
    laptops
    worksheets
    research work
    questions from text book
    demonstrations
    Internet sites
    reading the text
    private study
    videos


  1. Your Comments.
    Please include any information you think would be helpful for us to know about your impression of the course.





Nikki Zimmerman