The senior seminar portfolio self-assessment is your opportunity to reflect upon your progress as an academic speaker and writer. To provide some guidance and structure for this reflection, IAS is providing you with a questionnaire, which I am distributing in class on Tuesday, October 5.
I would like to elaborate on some of the questionnaire items:
The senior seminar portfolio self-assessment will not be graded, but must show an adequate amount of completeness and depth. Although "adequate" is difficult to define, I will look for serious, candid reflection and carefully prepared responses in your self-assessment, and I expect carefully written, edited, and proofread reflections in line with "Tips for Better Prose," available at <http://faculty.washington.edu/davidgs/Prose.html>. As a rough guideline, the work needs to be worthy of a C or better to be acceptable. Portfolio self-assessments that do not reach this standard will require revision, which I shall discuss individually with students who fall into this category. Students who do not submit a satisfactory senior seminar portfolio self-assessment by the last class meeting will receive a grade 0.5 grade points below what they otherwise would have earned for the course.
The senior seminar portfolio self-assessment is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, October 19. Senior seminar portfolio self-assessments submitted by this deadline will be evaluated within one week, at which time I will send brief comments to you via your official UW e-mail address. Senior seminar portfolio self-assessments submitted after class begins on October 19 will be evaluated and returned when I have time to read them.
I will submit your portfolio self-assessment
(if it is
adequate and requires no revision) to the IAS office for the
Program's files. This is a
requirement for graduation.
This page last updated September 27, 2004.
