MidPoint Evaluation

1. What year are you?
1. Freshmen – 9
2. Sophomore – 3
3. Junior – 2
4. Senior – 2
2. Do you think the keyboarding practice this term has been helpful?
1. Yes – 9
2. Somewhat – 6
3. No – 1
3. Which skill in Microsoft Word was the most beneficial to learn this term? (multiple answers are allowed)
1. Font formatting – 0
2. Tables – 12
3. Borders – 7
4. Styles – 4
5. Indents – 7
6. Numbering – 4
7. Format Painter – 9
8. Paragraph spacing – 1
9. Other: Track Changes – 2
4. Which statement(s) best describe your opinion about conducting research for the career project (multiple answers allowed).
1. I learned a lot about career choices through my research – 11
2. I did not enjoy the career research – 1
3. The career research was easy – 5
4. Researching the career information was too difficult and the information was hard to understand – 0
5. I like using the pathfinders provided by the Librarian – 10
6. I would prefer to do my own research on careers and not use the pathfinders. – 2
7. I shared the information I researched during the Career Fair – 13
8. I did not share the information I researched during the Career Fair.
9. Other – 4:Learned some what about our careers, Didn’t help my decision in finding a job, It made me think about what I want to do with my careers in my future, The career research wasn’t too hard, or too easy

5. Evaluation how well your group worked together on the career project

This statement is …	False	Partly true	True
Everyone contributed to the research	0	2	14
Everyone contributed to the poster board or interactive project	2	0	14
Everyone contributed during the presentation at the Career Fair	2	5	9

6. Please rate your understanding of the following Excel Skills

	I still have difficulty with this skill	I need some help with this skill	I am comfortable with this skill	I could teach another student this skill
Formatting the spreadsheet	0	2	10	4
Writing a formula	0	1	10	5
Creating a graph	0	2	7	7

7. On a scale of 1-5 rate your teach on the following items:

	1 Poor	2 Just Ok	3 Good	4 Very Good	5 Excellent
Knowledge of technical skills	0	0	2	4	10
Availability for help	0	0	3	6	7
Feedback give to you about your progress	0	2	1	10	3
Ability to teach new skills	0	1	1	4	10
Friendliness	0	0	2	4	10
Motivates me to learn	0	0	5	6	5

8. What suggestions do you have for how this entire career project could be improved in the future?

1. Nothing
2. More time to do research and maybe more to the point topics... The topics assigned for this recent project were broad
3. The presentation seemed chaotic during lunch
4. I think that more sites should be available on the library thing
5. I think that it was done really well, but it could be better if we could choose somewhat what careers we wanted to research.
6. This could be improved by giving time for more research. if you have more information, then there would be more to put on the project and the presentation.
7. Maybe more interactive. Find other things for different groups to do.
8. No presentation to school. Most people didn't really care. Instead, present to classmates.
9. Research more careers than two. Get different information about each career. That’s about it. It was good.
10. Maybe have the groups have a little bit more time to actually put together the poster board. like you could have a "poster board day"
11. I think that we could have the same thing happen, basically, but spend more time on the report, the speech/ presenting part.
12. I thought it all worked out fairly well. Its not gonna be perfect as thats impossible for any ideas in school but you basically did it the best way we could and we all worked together and learned plenty of things and then were able to share those with the school (while giving out candy as well).
13. I think that maybe next year or whenever it is done again, that more research should be done on the different jobs. The that my group provided was not very exhaustive
14. It was pretty good.
15. It could be improved if the students gave more creative ideas. Everybody else are almost same; doing PowerPoint, poster board. But, there were some creative ones, like playing guitar, bring cookie, and tickets.

9. What recommendation do you have the teacher of how she could tech this unit differently in the future?

1. No, none what so ever
2. For me i did not need the Microsoft office help but maybe for some people, we could have touched on word, excel, and power point a little bit more.
3. Focus more on teaching the skills rather than so much emphasis on the project.
4. more progress reports
5. I don't really have any recommendations. The teacher did well.
6. This would be better if we had time to practice the presentation before and make a script or something so that we know what we should say to people who come to look at our project
7. You’re doing great, lots of vocal energy. Maybe a few field trips (educational) to learn about computers.
8. No detailed research on a couple specific topics, but instead, several more general topics, so we can discover more jobs without having to research a job we find out we don't like.
9. I think it was very well taught.
10. i don't have really any recommendations for you.
11. I think she taught it well, but could explain the project more accurately in the beginning.
12. About the same answer as #8. It wasn't "perfect" but I can't really think of another way it could have been done so good job!
13. Stress that more research should be done on the specific careers that a group chooses to cover.
14. I would like to learn the skills in a more linear format.
15. I think project was a good one. Maybe doing other project in the future will be good.

10. If students had the CHOICE to help the teacher choose a topic for future projects in Computer Applications, which of the following topics interests you the most? (multiple answers and suggestions encouraged)

1. Teen Issues (drinking, smoking, dating, etc.) - 12
2. Athletic topics (team stats, steroid use, sports promotions) - 7
3. Discovering new technologies (podcasting, video, blogs, Web 2.0 tools, IM, Free software, Lego Programming) - 4
4. Famous People (historical, political, music, etc..) - 4
5. Pop Culture of the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s - 4
6. The History of … (music topic: Rock-n-Roll, historical event: famous war, Invention: TV, etc) - 8
7. Everyone gets to choose their own topics - 11