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Evaluations—How We Did
People should be educated so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world, and to keep their part of it going on right: for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence. —Thomas Jefferson
Think about the kind of world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to help build that world? Demand that your teachers teach you that. —Paul Goodman
In general, students loved Campus Ecology and we saw it all the time. We saw it in class, and in conversations that continued in dorm rooms and living rooms and chat rooms. We saw it in chapel, and in the annotations of Earth Day. We saw it in creative reading and writing, and in the creation of a real community out of an aggregation of interesting and interested individuals.
But we also received more formal evaluations. Near the end of the class, we asked each student to list the ten most important things they learned in the class, and we compiled the results. Here is the list. On the last day, we asked students to evaluate the course—here are excerpts from their constructive criticism. Finally, some students used journal entries to evaluate their own learning in the course. Here's one particularly powerful entry.
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