Take-Home Midterm
The midterm will consist of short essay questions asking you to relate Ballad of the Bullet to the content of lectures and other course readings. You will find these questions on Brightspace on March 27.
Self-Assessment
The midterm will be self-assessed. This means that, after submitting your answers, you will grade your own effort. Here’s how that works:
- We will prepare “model answers” for each of the essay questions on the midterm. Read each of these model answers and the assessment criteria that they are intended to demonstrate. The “model answers” are not the definitive answers, and it is possible that a good answer will differ significantly in its content provided it successfully demonstrates understanding and analytical thinking.
- You will write a brief reflection on your own answers. Think of your reflection as a letter addressed to the instructors in which you explain what you think was successful about your answer, and what, with the benefit of hindsight, you think could have been improved. What did you find challenging about writing your answer? What did you learn as a result of preparing your answer and reviewing it?
- Finally, you will tell us what grade you would give yourself for the exam as a whole. (Ideally, we would give everyone the grade they give themselves, but we reserve the right to raise or lower grades as appropriate.)
You will find the self-assessment as an assignment on Brightspace after you have submitted your attempt and the deadline has passed.