Debriefing on Exam

William J. Frey

Final exam

• May 7: last class– Assessment of Frey and course modules

• May 11: 9:45 Trouble Shooting meeting

• May 17: Turn in Group materials/final exam from 7:30 to 4:30

Scale

• 200 – 180

• 179 – 160

• 159 – 140

• A-/B+ B+/A-

Nota Bene

• I am required to keep exams on file for a semester. You can have access to them at any time.

• The rubrics are out of order. The rubric listed third is for question two while that listed second is for question three.

• Comments were generally reserved for how well you stayed focused on the question.

Things you did well• Good answers on second half of question three: good

arguments looking at the responsibilities of Saia and LaRue

• Good at working around difficulty of understanding “chivo expiatorio”

• At least one person in each group answered all of the questions well—this will allow for some more cooperative learning

• Almost all tests were focused and did not contain extraneous discussions (Issue of focus or intelligibility)

• This was a difficult test. You successfully faced a challenge!– Difficult content and skills– Time constraint (You know that you can make arguments under time

limitations)– Interpreting and answering the questions (You went through fact rich

cases and structured data)

Areas for attention and improvement

• Right claim framework: essential, vulnerable, and feasible. (Connect to autonomy)

• Reversibility: Project yourself into the shoes of another (=stakeholder)– How does the action look from the receiving end?– Avoid extremes of too much (getting lost) and too little (no

sympathy)

• Keep working on values/virtues– Each virtue can be specified into mean between extremes of too

much and too little– Build virtues into ethics bowl debate. Our solution realizes X

values/virtues for Y and Z reasons.

What you need to focus on now• In depth case study analysis (Using STA to

formulate problems, brainstorming lists, SEM, and Feasibility)– Execute the software development cycle

• Respond to the feedback from the ethics bowl (and tell me in your self-evaluations)

• Review m13759 (Practical and Professional Ethics Bowl Activity: Follow-Up In-Depth Case Analysis)– Include the charts + verbal explanations– Process is as important as product. (Brainstorming

lists, refined lists, explanation of process)

What you need to focus on now

• Return to Ethics of Team Work Module (m13760) and carry out exercise three (final group self-evaluation)

• Review preliminary report– What did you change?– What did you learn?– What were your obstacles and how did you overcome them?

• Individual member evaluation forms– Each team member fills one out anonymously – Evaluate yourself and your team members

What you need to focus on now

• Case Summaries

• Look at example I brought into classroom

• Concentrate on simple problem statement and solution evaluation matrix. Provide a short justification of your solution.

What is important now

• Closing out the ethics bowl– Debating and reflecting on the challenges of

ethics advocacy– Peer Reviewing and how to instantiate the

virtue of reasonableness (active/critical listening)

• Building reactions into self-evaluation