- What is something you feel you are doing well at and/or are proud of in this course? Which skills do you think you have developed the most?
This semester, I am proud of my ability to stay up to date and earn decent grades in this course. So far, throughout the semester, I have been challenged to work on my comprehension of kinematic word problems and scenarios. In the past, word problems (in general) were my weakest area of critical thinking. This semester, I have further developed my skills in understanding word problems and implementing them into physics equations and calculating multiple answers. Although I am still learning and strengthening my skills when it comes to word problems, I have been able to receive my goal of an average of developing to proficient grades for my tests and quizzes.
2. What is something you feel you still have to work on? What goal do you have for the second half of the course?
Moving forward in this course, I feel that I still have to work on completing as many practice questions as possible to prepare myself for upcoming quizzes/tests. Currently, I have been doing some practice questions prior to assessments, however, I could definitely improve on this and complete more that are provided on TEAMS.
3. What is working well for you in this class? what do you find is helping you learn?
Something that is working well for me in this class is the various occasions when there is group work or partner work. For instance, this involves doing group practice questions on white boards or partner work for labs. I appreciate this style of learning because I tend to learn the most when I can work with peers. I enjoy communicating with class mates to figure out a problem, as well as the dynamic of everyone helping each other out if one person doesn’t understand but another person is able to explain the scenario to them in order to answer the question. I find that using my resources from class peers has helped me better understand this physics course better.
4. what is missing? what additional supports would you like/do you need to achieve your goals?
There aren’t too many ideas that come to mind when it comes to any “missing” or “additional” supports that I’d need to achieve my goals. As of right now, if I do find myself in a situation where I need some extra support, I will sign up for FLEX or contact any peers that could help support me achieving my goals.
What grade or grade range would you assess yourself to be achieving right now? are you happy with this or do you have plans to work to improve further? NOTE: feel free to either just get an “overall” mark or break it up into the two areas of content and competencies (which includes skills like evaluating, questioning, predicting, analyzing, communicating etc)
As of right now, I would assess myself to be achieving a B level grade in this course. I am happy with this letter grade, however, I do believe that I can do better, so I plan to work on improving my test scores in the future. In order to do this, I can work on improving my consistency in completing practice problems prior to quizzes and tests so that I am more prepared.
