In class yesterday I passed out a sheet with what I call an assessment self-quiz. Solutions are now posted in the Solutions page here on the site.

They’re not quizzes for a grade, so what is the role of these? Two things:

1. As I lecture, you can see some questions on basic or core things that come up in the lecture. Often the answers are given on the slides or in words. So it’s not supposed to be hard. Hopefully you get a better idea of what I think you should understand from the lecture.
2. Afterwards, I can look over these quickly to try to see how you all did as a group in understanding things. I don’t expect perfect answers or even all questions answered. But if I see everyone misses something or leaves something blank, then I can correct for that in the next class. Also, if one of you leaves all or many problems blank, or they’re all very wrong, then that’s a flag that someone may be struggling or may be completely tuned out in class. (And I may check up on such students!)

The goal of these is to have some way of better engaging your brains in class! If you have comments or suggestions on the use of these, let me know!