There will be four major exams during the semester. Each exam will be cumulative in nature, i.e., each exam will contain multiple-choice test items on material from previous sections of the course. The first exam will be worth 75 points, the second 100 points, the third 125 points, and 150 points for the final exam.  Since this is a Writing-Intensive course, these exams will contain a mixture of essay (25%) and multiple-choice (75%) questions.  A list of possible essay questions can be found in the class notes in the Study Guide section accompanying each chapter. Use the Study Guide questions to focus your study and to assist in integrating materials.
 

Your first exam will be taken in the comfort of your own home or office.  It is designed as a learning opportunity and is to be taken as an open book exam, that is, you can refer to the textual materials while taking the exam.  You will also have as much time as you need.

Your second exam will also be taken on line.  However, you will have a time limitation of one hour and fifteen minutes before the computer system locks you out.  This is to prevent you f rom referring to your copies of the textual materials since you simply will not have time to read the textual materials and answer the questions.

Your third exam will also be taken online like the second exam except that you will have one hour and forty-five minutes to complete the exam before the computer system locks you out.

Your final exam will also be taken online. You will have two and one-hours to complete the exam before the computer system locks you out.

The multiple choice you will encounter on the exams have been carefully (deviously) designed to require analytic or critical reasoning skills.  They generally do not require simple memorization and regurgitation of facts.

Once you have read and studied the first three chapters, reflect for a moment on the construction of each chapter.  Each time a new  concept was introduced we proceeded to do the following:
          (1) We identified the concept.  This usually involved identifying a label word for the concept.
          (2)  We carefully defined the concept.
          (3)  We provided examples or illustrations of the concept.
          (4)  We indicated the application of the concept.
          (5)  We synthesized  or linked the new concept to other concepts.
          (6)  Lastly, we can also evaluate or assess the concept.

Identification, definition, illustratiion, application, synthesis, evaluation.  These are great ways to formulate test items.  I could give you several examples and ask you to identify what is being illustrated. I could offer several definitions and ask you identify the one which fits a label word, etc.