Unit 1: How do we Know Things?
4 Would you like to write your own exam questions?
Speaking of exams: Want the chance to know exactly what’s on your next exam? We’re giving you the chance to submit potential exam questions. In order to be eligible, your question(s) must be fully conceptualized (i.e., not half-baked), have viable incorrect answers (Listen, I’m all for the funny, obviously not true answer option. But they can’t ALL be like that.), and must be related to the content described in the chapter OR in the video lecture.
Please note that if we don’t get questions submitted in “part 1”, we will not continue this exercise during parts 2 & 3. I’m not throwing shade or anything, no valence to this policy, but it takes extra time and it’s silly for us to spend it setting up the various google docs and links if it’s not valuable to students.
Learning Objectives
Figuring out the content enough to write exam questions is a mechanism for helping you learn the content. FOR REALZ.
Each chapter will have it’s own google doc link for suggestions. It will have a table like this, but without the explanatory examples.
| T/F, Multiple Choice, or Choose All Exam Q submitted for consideration: | Brief rationale for correct answer: |
| Viable multiple choice question suggestion directly related to what is covered in the text and/or in the video lecture.
a. Correct answer b. Incorrect answer but not obviously so c. Incorrect answer but not obviously so d. Incorrect answer but not obviously so e. If you so choose, incorrect answer that might lighten the mood with humor. |
In the text/lecture video it say XXX. The answer is correct because XXX. Incorrect answer would appear to be correct if the student did not read/pay attention to XXX. Incorrect answer 2 is a viable, related concept that is discussed, but is not the right example. Incorrect answer 3 (etc.). |
| True or False: Can students write and submit true false questions directly related to what is covered in the text and/or in the video lecture? | True. Doc said so in Unit 7 https://pressbooks.uiowa.edu/ssresearchmethodscommunicationonline/part/unit-4-xxx/
(Yes, the link might not say the same thing as the unit. That’s because we’re covering so much less content in the pandemic version of the course. Yes, we would have been all the way up to here in a normal semester week 4. No, we weren’t making it up. Ask your mentors. Or maybe don’t, they’re probably salty about it.) |
| What is correct about the process for submitting an exam question?
a. you have to do it via the table in the google doc that is linked in the chapter. b. it has to be a fully conceptualized, viable question. c. you have to pull something cogent in the box to the right about WHY answers are right and wrong. d. if you submit a question it will definitely be on the next exam. e. doc and the course team are only doing this to punish us! It’s required and it’s way too much work! f. The university of Iowa is located in Iowa City, IA. g. The can relate to anything about that topic. |
a, b, and c, are correct as per the information shared here in text (https://pressbooks.uiowa.edu/ssresearchmethodscommunicationonline/part/unit-4-xxx/) that says: “In order to be eligible, your question(s) must be fully conceptualized (i.e., not half-baked), have viable incorrect answers (Listen, I’m all for the funny, obviously not true answer option. But they can’t ALL be like that.), and must be related to the content described in the chapter OR in the video lecture. “
d is wrong because it has to be a GOOD question. We might edit your question to make it such. It’s likely to be a good question if you complete both sides of this suggestion grid, or at least we’ll be able to figure out how to edit it to make it better. e. Uhm, so, this is totally voluntary. No one is requiring you to do this. No, you can’t have extra credit. The “extra credit” is knowing what you’ll be asked on the exam and how to answer it. (so, ps, this is wrong) f. Although this information is CORRECT as stand alone information, it doesn’t actually have anything to do with the question stem so therefore it is INCORRECT. g. You would think maybe correct BUT it’s got to be covered in the book (via text or video). You might have the Best Video Ever that you found on the interwebs but we can’t test on something included in that without content having come up in the book. |
| what you’ll actually see is | that header above and, eventually, a blank space where you can write your own questions and answers! If you don’t see a blank space, put your curser in the last box on the right and TAB. When you tab in one of these tables in creates a new row. |
Unit 1: How do we Know Things?
2. Problems with Common Ways of Knowing