Exit Questionnaire for Microbiology Students from Philadelphia University

General Personal Information

1. Major _________________________________

2. Current Employment _________________________________

3. Graduation date (if still a student, please indicate expected date) _______________

4. Please place a check mark next to the semester and year you took Microbiology

Semester Fall ____ Spring ______

Year 1996 ____ 1997 ____ 1998 ____ 1999 ____ 2000 ____ 2001 ____

5. Please indicate whether you were a Sophomore, Junior or Senior when you took the course _____________

General Information about the Microbiology Course

1. Was Microbiology a required or recommended course for your major? _______________

2. On a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 = little use and 10 = very useful, please indicate how you important you think Microbiology has been to your major/chosen career ______________________

3. On a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 = unchallenging and 10 = very challenging, please indicate the level of intellectual challenge provided by this course ______________________

4. Do you think taking this course affected your performance in any later courses/subjects? If so indicate how and what these courses were _____________________________________________________

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Information about the specific problem-based learning and resources associated with the Microbiology course

Course note packet/study guide (available from fall 1998 onwards)

Were course note packets available when you took the course? Handouts? _______
If you answered no to question 1, please indicate any benefits a study guide available at the beginning of the course would have been to you ___________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________
Please respond to the following statements by putting a checkmark in the box that best describes your evaluation of the note packet/study guide

	Poor	Average	Good	Excellent
Intellectual content of guide
Ease of reading
Usefulness in studying for exams
Interest level of guide�s subject matter

Do you think that the formal note packet/study guide restricted your exploration of the subject of Microbiology or encouraged you to examine the subject further? __________________________

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Written assignments (introduced fall 1996, modified spring 1998 and fall 1998)

1. Please place a check mark next to the written assignments you completed during the course

____ Design of a novel antimicrobial agent

____ Description of a bacterial species that has proven beneficial to man

____ Description of how transgenic organisms are created and the legislation governing their use

____ Health director in a developing nation dealing with a protozoal outbreak

____ Discussion of the historical impact of plague and modern methods of treatment

____ Discussion of the possible origins of viruses

2. Please respond to the following statements by assigning them a number score that best describes your experience of the written assignments and add any additional comments you may have about the assignment in the space below the table. Select a number between 1 and 10 where 1 = poor and 10 = excellent: -

Intellectual content of assignments ____

Appropriateness of topics selected for the course ____

Creativity involved in the assignments� completion ____

Interest level in the assignments� subject matter ____

3. If you did not have the option of any of the current two writing assignment options shown above please go back to the Microbiology main page of this website and click on the "Assignment" page to access them on the Website. Provide any comments you have on these assignments and on whether you would have preferred any of the alternative assignments in the space below:

Class debate (introduced fall 1999)

1. Were you involved in a class debate, constituting a third Microbiology assignment, when you took this course? _____

2. If you answered no to question 1, please go back to the Microbiology main page and click on "Assignments" to access the description of the oral assignment currently being used in the course. Scroll down to the bottom of the assignment page to view details of this, oral assignment. Please provide comments in the space below as to your opinion of the usefulness of such an assignment to understanding the field of Microbiology:

3. For those who were involved in the class debate, please respond to the following statements by assigning them a number score that best describes your experience of this assignment and add any additional comments you may have about the assignment in the space below the table. Select a number between 1 and 10 where 1 = poor and 10 = excellent: -

Intellectual content of assignment ____

Appropriateness of debate for the course ____

Creativity involved in the assignment�s completion ____

Interest level in the assignment�s subject matter ____

Case histories (introduced spring 1998, formalized component produced in fall 1998) http://www.microbelibrary.org/curriculum/Toolbox/toolbox7a1.htm

1. Were you given case histories as exam components or during laboratory periods, when you took this course? _____

2. If you answered no to question 1, please click go back to the main Microbiology links page and click on the "assignment" page to access the bacterial case histories currently being used in the course. Please provide comments in the space below as to your opinion of the usefulness of such a learning tool to understanding the field of Microbiology:

3. For those who completed case histories as a component of the course, please respond to the following statements by assigning them a number score that best describes your experience of this learning tool and add any additional comments you may have in the space below the table. Select a number between 1 and 10 where 1 = poor and 10 = excellent: -

Intellectual content of case history ____

Appropriateness of using case histories for this course ____

Interest level in the case history�s subject matter ____

Creativity of the case histories� design ____

Microbiology Links on the Professor�s personal website (introduced fall 2000)

1. Did you have access to this created personal website, when you took the course? _____

2. If you answered no to question 1, please click back to the main Microbiology page of this website and go to links to access the Microbiology links page, which contains 70 links to other websites and other subjects. Please examine place a check mark next to the links you find interesting or useful on this page next to the list below:

Epidemics ____

Famous microbiologists ____

Antibiotic resistance ____

Important bacteria (Lyme disease, diphtheria, TB) ____

Case histories and mystery bugs ____

Antimicrobial activity of spices ____

Bioremediation and environmental microbiology ____

Protozoal diseases (malaria, sleeping sickness, chagas disease, leishmaniasis) ____

3. For those who had access to this Website during your course, please respond to the following statements in the space provided and add any additional comments you may have in the space below the table.

Approximate number of times you accessed the links section ____

Which types of links did you access or which do you now find

interesting? Place a check mark next to all that apply: -