SBS 3033                                                                             Spring 2007

Perspectives                                                                         Dr. David Tait

Advance Instructions for Second  Exam

Posted March 5 at 10:20 A.M.

Exam Date 

The second exam in our class will take place on Monday March 12.  As a general rule, make-up exams are not available in this class: missed tests can mean no credit.

Structure and Basis of the Exam

There is no take-home essay this time.   The exam is based on the course materials, i.e., assigned reading and class presentations.  You should know this material well, but do not need to consult any other sources of information.

IN-CLASS TEST

To prepare for the test, pay close attention to the Dye chapter guidelines posted on the professor’s website.  The test will cover chapters 10-14 and related material introduced in class. Notice that the guidelines for chapters 13 and 14 stress the importance of lecture material given in class.  This material will be presented on March 5 and March 7.

You will not be able to master every single term or piece of information in the book and the lectures.  The professor knows that.  The test will attempt to reward you for what you know more than it will try to ferret out what you do not know.

You may bring with you to the test a single 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper with all the notes you want, front and back.  No books and no other memory assist devices of any kind whatsoever!

Please bring with you a #2 pencil suitable for marking a Scantron.  You may also bring a pen to use in responding to writing questions.  Only black ink and blue ink may be used.

The test will include some or all of the following kinds of questions:

• Multiple-choice
• True-False
• Fill in the Blanks
• Matching
• Identifications
• Brief writing assignments

An identification is a short answer, usually one to three paragraphs, in which you define a term and provide key information about it.  This information may include many things, for example, the importance of a theory, major criticisms of a theory, experiment, method or technique, etc.

A brief writing assignment would ask for a short written response (two to four paragraphs or so) to a question. For example: What are some of the problems a social scientist faces when “applying the scientific method to social problems” (Dye 39)?