Assessment

Priory Navigation Exercise

1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic?

1. No knowledge at all
2. Very little knowledge
3. Some knowledge
4. A good amount of knowledge 
5. I knew all about this

2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic?

1. I don't really know enough to talk about the topic
2. I know enough to explain what I did
3. I know enough to repeat what I did
4. I know enough to teach someone else
5. I am an expert

3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn?

1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. No real opinion
4. Agree
5. Strongly agree

4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?

Allowing students to pick their own groups. As a female working with two guys on this project, they many times took the lead without considering my input. The old stereotype of men claiming to be the "know-all's" of directions really showed through in this exercise, which made the experience overall somewhat less enjoyable.

Community Garden Surveying and Drone Work

1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic?

1. No knowledge at all
2. Very little knowledge
3. Some knowledge
4. A good amount of knowledge 
5. I knew all about this

2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic?

1. I don't really know enough to talk about the topic
2. I know enough to explain what I did
3. I know enough to repeat what I did
4. I know enough to teach someone else
5. I am an expert

3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn?

1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. No real opinion
4. Agree
5. Strongly agree

4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?

Splitting up and rotating the groups as was done with the distance azimuth survey would have made it easier to get a chance at utilizing all the data collection tools available.  

ArcCollector: Parts 1 and 2

1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic?

1. No knowledge at all
2. Very little knowledge
3. Some knowledge
4. A good amount of knowledge 
5. I knew all about this

2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic?

1. I don't really know enough to talk about the topic
2. I know enough to explain what I did
3. I know enough to repeat what I did
4. I know enough to teach someone else
5. I am an expert

3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn?

1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. No real opinion
4. Agree
5. Strongly agree

4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?

N/A!! Getting to collect data on our own topic of choice was a satisfying endeavor.

Conducting a Distance-Azimuth Survey

1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic?

1. No knowledge at all
2. Very little knowledge
3. Some knowledge
4. A good amount of knowledge 
5. I knew all about this

2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic?

1. I don't really know enough to talk about the topic
2. I know enough to explain what I did
3. I know enough to repeat what I did
4. I know enough to teach someone else
5. I am an expert

3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn?

1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. No real opinion
4. Agree
5. Strongly agree

4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?

N/A!! LOVED THIS lab and the group work involved. 

PIX4D Demo

1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic?

1. No knowledge at all
2. Very little knowledge
3. Some knowledge
4. A good amount of knowledge 
5. I knew all about this

2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic?

1. I don't really know enough to talk about the topic
2. I know enough to explain what I did
3. I know enough to repeat what I did
4. I know enough to teach someone else
5. I am an expert

3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn?

1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. No real opinion
4. Agree
5. Strongly agree

4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?

The tutorial was nice, even necessary. A little further explaining could have been provided in executing the fly overs or what was desired in the maps for Part 3 of the blog post. 

Survey123

1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic?

1. No knowledge at all
2. Very little knowledge
3. Some knowledge
4. A good amount of knowledge 
5. I knew all about this

2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic?

1. I don't really know enough to talk about the topic
2. I know enough to explain what I did
3. I know enough to repeat what I did
4. I know enough to teach someone else
5. I am an expert

3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn?

1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. No real opinion
4. Agree
5. Strongly agree

4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?

N/a. I appreciated all parts of this lab

Navigation Maps:

1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic?

1. No knowledge at all
2. Very little knowledge
3. Some knowledge
4. A good amount of knowledge 
5. I knew all about this

2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic?

1. I don't really know enough to talk about the topic
2. I know enough to explain what I did
3. I know enough to repeat what I did
4. I know enough to teach someone else
5. I am an expert

3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn?

1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. No real opinion
4. Agree
5. Strongly agree

4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?

I was a little confused how to formulate the maps. It was hard to chose what to include without knowing much about the future lab we would use them for. Overall, I feel I grasped the general concepts necessary.

Mapping Fundamentals:

1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic?

1. No knowledge at all
2. Very little knowledge
3. Some knowledge
4. A good amount of knowledge 
5. I knew all about this

2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic?

1. I don't really know enough to talk about the topic
2. I know enough to explain what I did
3. I know enough to repeat what I did
4. I know enough to teach someone else
5. I am an expert

3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn?

1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. No real opinion
4. Agree
5. Strongly agree

4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?

I think this lab may have gone over more effectively if the blogging outline and instructions we were given through d2l were more detailed in what the project was looking for within each section of the blog. The last two blog instructions were extremely detailed in what was to be included in or focused on in the written sections of the blog. This lab, however, lacked some of that context. 

Visualizing and Refining the Terrain Survey:

1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic?

1. No knowledge at all
2. Very little knowledge
3. Some knowledge
4. A good amount of knowledge 
5. I knew all about this

2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic?

1. I don't really know enough to talk about the topic
2. I know enough to explain what I did
3. I know enough to repeat what I did
4. I know enough to teach someone else
5. I am an expert

3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn?

1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. No real opinion
4. Agree
5. Strongly agree

4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?

I think it would be beneficial to explore what each of these methods did while in class in order to gain a better understanding overall of each of the five methods.

Creating a Digital Elevation Surface Model Assessment:

1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic?

1. No knowledge at all
2. Very little knowledge
3. Some knowledge
4. A good amount of knowledge 
5. I knew all about this

2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic?

1. I don't really know enough to talk about the topic
2. I know enough to explain what I did
3. I know enough to repeat what I did
4. I know enough to teach someone else
5. I am an expert

3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn?

1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. No real opinion
4. Agree
5. Strongly agree

4. What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?

While I appreciated the learning curve in the hands-off instruction prior to the execution of the lab, given that I had so little clue as to how to go about executing this, it made for a real challenge. I appreciated having group mates to collaborate with for ideas on the best methods to use, and how to undertake the task at hand.