March 13, 2009
On our last day of class before spring break, the instructor first reviewed the readings and what we would be doing after the break. See "next class," below. She also went over attendance through midterm.
We talked about the chapter on group assessment. We answerd the first assessment about grouphate and Scott took the numbers and put them in pie chart form in Excel. The class could then see how the segments broke out for each question. The instructor interpreted the first pie chart and students interpreted the others.
The consensus was that no one in the class hated groups. As a matter of fact, the largest segments were that people liked working in groups or they were undecided about working in groups. Brendan suggested that the "neither" could mean that people could be undecided based on who else was in the group.
Next class:
Read Chapter 9. On Tuesday after spring break, we will go into small groups and the instructor will provide a set of questions for the group to answer. Who answered the question will be filled in and the questions will go in the notebook as a class exercise.
On the following Friday, we will do a written (anonymous) evaluation of the class. We will also do personality profiles.
March 10, 2009
Today we broke into small groups and worked on defining concepts from Chapter 6. The instructor showed a term on the screen and students defined the term. At the end, we totalled up the points.
After this classroom exercise, the instructor put a self-monitoring assessment tool on the doc cam and students answered it. We learned there were quite a few high self-monitors in the class.
Next class:
Review Chapter 7 on assessment tools for small groups. Read the chapter indicated on the reading schedule, too.
