Submitting this case study, with answers to questions 1 and 2, is required. Your answer to question 4 can earn you a point on your course grade. Substantive answers to questions 5-12 will earn you an additional point.

  1. What do you plan to do with your EPID600 course materials?

A. Keep them for a number of years
B. Discard (recycle) them
C. Give them to a student who will be taking EPID600
D. Something else (please describe briefly)
E. I don't know.

  *2. If you will be giving your EPID600 course materials to another student, what will you do with the instructor answers to the case studies and examinations?

A. Keep them.
B. Give them to another student along with the rest of the course materials.
C. Discard (recycle) them.

  3. Are you aware of any EPID600 student's having: a) communicated with someone other than an instructor about an EPID600 exam before instructor answers were posted, b) used instructor answers to case studies or examinations, or c) obtained or given assistance you regard as inappropriate?   NOTE: The purpose of this question is to assess the effectiveness of measures to encourage adherence to the EPID600 Honor Code instructions. Vic will read your answers ONLY AFTER submitting course grades. He undertakes NOT to use information you provide here against you or others. If anonymity is essential please comment in the (anonymous) course evaluation form instead.

The following question is the mechanism for you to receive a case study point for submitting the school's course evaluation.

  4. Have you submitted the course evaluation? (Computer-graded: answer must begin with "yes;" [without quotes] to receive the case study point for submitting the course evaluation.)

This semester EPID600 has introduced or modified several aspects of the course. Please give us some feedback about these items.

  5. About how many hours would you guess you have spent per week on EPID600, including reading/watching lectures, attending, reading the textbook and readings, working the case studies, working in lab, etc. (not counting transportation time). (Please begin your answer with the number of hours followed by a semicolon.)

  6. Did you watch any of the recorded lectures? If so, did you find them helpful?

  7. How helpful to your learning were the weekly quizzes? Do you have any comments about or suggestions for them?

  8. How helpful did you find the small group work? In past semesters groups were 8-10 in size. Would you have preferred a group larger than 4 or 5?

  9. In past semesters, Exams 1 and 2 were open-book, take-home exams based on articles (similar to the case studies on HIV in Zimbabwe, mammography in Asia, in-home water filters, breast cancer and smoking, and erectile dysfunction). Students had one week to submit their answers, and many students spent 12 or more hours on each exam.Grading required nearly two weeks. Do you think you preferred this semester's exam format?

10. What EPID600 component(s) contributed most to your learning?

11. What EPID600 component(s) contributed least to your learning?

12. Do you have any comments about the course schedule, the website, or anything else that you have not already commented on in the course evaluation? (If you do not want your comments to be posted publicly, should Vic wish to do so, include "please do not post" or words to that effect.)