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LBSC 671 - Creating Information Infrastructures
Spring 2014 - Section 0101
Assignment P15 - Suggesting Exam Questions


This homework is due before the start of the class session indicated on the syllabus. This assignment will be graded pass/fail.

The goal of this assignment is to help you reflect on what you have (and should have!) learned in this course. Look back over the schedule, and for sessions that you don't remember well flip through the slide deck. You may also find it useful to selectively replay parts of the class video and to review the two textbooks and the list of additional readings. And you will surely find it useful to review the homework assignments, the quiz, and the midterm exam.

The assignment is to write three exam questions that you believe I could reasonably include on the final exam. A good exam question tests a conceptual learning objective (rather than, for example, knowledge of specific vocabulary), it can be completed using only a portion of the time in the exam (so that the entire exam can test several conceptual learning objectives), it is expressed clearly, and the award of partial credit would be possible (questions that call for integrating more than one concept offer some scope for this). In this course, all exams are open book, so it is also important that the answer to the question not be available simply by typing the question into Google! This usually means that the question should call for some new thinking. You should indicate the number of points that each question you write is intended to be worth (as a guideline, a 10 point question is one that a very well prepared student should be able to answer in 6 minutes).

Place your three questions without answers on your wiki page. Your classmates wiki pages will thus be useful to you as a source of practice questions for the exam. You will receive full credit if you post three reasonable questions (i.e., I will not grade the quality of your questions, but I will note their presence, that they reflect a serious effort, and that they were submitted on time). I will review all of your questions before writing the exam, so they may shape my thinking as I do so. If possible, I will include at least one question that someone submits for this assignment on the exam (possibly with some modifications, however!).


Doug Oard
Last modified: Sun Jan 12 13:25:52 2014