Student Evaluation on Year 11 Earth Materials and Mid Course Examintion

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. 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 The living and non-living components of the Earth contain mixtures
    I think my understanding of most key concepts would be:
    Complete and well detailed
    Usually good
    Vague
    incomplete


  1. Focus 2 Although most elements are found in combinations on Earth, some elements are found uncombined
    I think my understanding of most key concepts would be:
    Complete and well detailed
    Usually good
    Vague
    incomplete


  1. Focus 3 Elements in Earth materials are present mostly as compounds because of interactions at the atomic level
    I think my understanding of most key concepts would be:
    Complete and well detailed
    Usually good
    Vague
    incomplete


  1. Focus 4 Energy is required to extract elements from their naturally occurring sources
    I think my understanding of most key concepts would be:
    Complete and well detailed
    Usually good
    Vague
    incomplete


  1. Focus 5 The properties of elements and compounds are determined by their bonding and structure
    I think my understanding of most 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.
    Tests for Chemicals
    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.
    Assessing validity of experiments
    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.
    Assessing reliability of experiments
    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. What was the assessment for this module?
    (Theory Exam, research work, OEI, Pratical test)



  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. The next five questions relate to the Mid Course exam you just completed. How did you go when you self marked the exam


  1. Were you happy or unhappy with your result, explain your answer


  1. Outline how you prepared for this examination stating what you did and how long you spent on your preparation. Also mention over how long your prep was for eg 1 month before by first writing summary notes then spending a week every night to learn these notes and in the last week doing 2 past papers


  1. What have you learnt from this exam that you can do better next time. In other words do you have some improvement plan for next time. Are there any barriers to putting in place this improvement plan.


  1. Do you enjoy Chemistry as it has been taught so far. Explain your answer and give some ideas as how it can be improved if you are unhappy.


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


  1. Is the level of HW Ok, explain your answer.


  1. How did you like self marking your exam as soon as you did it, was this helpful, what did you learn from this, explain?





Mr H
Senior Chemistry Teacher
St. Catherines
Sydney