VI. Форми та методи контролю

Форми і методи контролю включають: письмове та усне опитування; перевірка домашніх завдань; проведення міні-тестів; підготовка доповідей, презентацій,тез; написання плану, есе; поточні та підсумкові контрольні роботи.

МЕТА І ФОРМИ ПОТОЧНОГО КОНТРОЛЮ

Згідно до методики рейтингової оцінки поточний рейтинг студента розраховується як сума балів за всіма видами практичних завдань (плюс показники відвідування лекційних та практичних занять) нарощується протягом семестру.

Студенти, поточні знання яких оцінені на “незадовільно” (0-29 балів), вважаються не атестованими і до екзамену з дисципліни не допускаються. Студенти, які за роботу в семестрі та на екзамені набрали 30-59 балів мають право на перескладання.

МЕТА І ФОРМИ ПІДСУМКОВОГО КОНТРОЛЮ ЗНАНЬ

Підсумковий контроль знань здійснюється наприкінці семестру шляхом складання екзамену (заліку).

До екзамену допускаються студенти, які мають необхідний рівень поточних знань.

Залік проводиться в письмовій або змішаній формі, по завданнях які складені на основі програми курсу та мають однаковий рівень складності.

ПИТАННЯ ДЛЯ ПІДГОТОВКИ ДО ЕКЗАМЕНУ (ЗАЛІКУ)

Topics for exam

1. Educational Attitudes in the USA.

2. Alternative Education / or Diversity in Education.

3. Plagiarism/ cheating: how to avoid/ combat it?

4. Problems that students might face adjusting to educational process.

5. What is intelligence? Is there a difference between being educated and being smart?

6. Is it a good idea to “cram” for an exam, i.e. to try and learn a lot in short time just before the Big Day?

7. How do you feel schoolchildren can best be introduced to nature and the natural sciences?

8. Aims of education.

9. Is talk of genius elitist? Are not all children equally important?

10. What kind of education can provide successful scientists?

11. Work Values in the USA.

12.What factors influence success at work?

13. The profession I’d like to have and the qualities essential for it.

14. If you could choose, would you work at home? Substantiate your choice.

15. How do you handle everyday stress?

16. Should there be more women in engineering? Why(not)?

17. What factors can make young people good inventors/

18. Ideal workplace for scientists.

19. What would you most like scientists to discover in the near future?

20. How scientists may suffer to make their discoveries?

21. What inventions have changed our lifestyle in important ways?

22 Technology: always force for good? Living without technology?

23. Does technological progress work backwards?

24. What role does the computer play in your life?

25. “Computers breed laziness and discontent” (Bel Mooney). How true is this of modern technological innovations in general?

26. Science: is it a menace to civilization?

27. Which scientific or technological breakthroughs do you consider to be particularly important? Why?

28. To what extent has technology made out life easier?

29. Is science an answer to the world’s problems?

30. Should there be any restrictions to scientific research?

31. Categories of non-verbal communication.

32. Cultural conflicts.

33. Body language speaks louder than words.

34. What is the difference between having pride in one’s identity and being ethnocentric?

35. Adjusting to a new culture.

36. Causes and consequences of urbanization.

37. Positive and negative aspects of globalization.

38. The world would be a better place if everyone spoke the same language.

39. What specific “challenges” will we face as world population grows? Consider economic, political and personal challenges.

40. What are the main problems associated with the tourist industry in the world?

41. What scientific explanations of the universe do you know?

42. Do animals have rights? Should animals work for people?

43. What makes a decent society?

44. Why do people commit crimes?.

45. Zoos are cruel and unnecessary. They should be closed down and the animals should be returned to the wild.

46. Hunting animals is a crime. How should poachers be punished?

47. Are you for or against the practice of euthanasia? Explain.

48. Give some of the reasons why scientists do experiments on animals

49. Legislation of soft drugs.

50. Virtues that you most appreciate in people.

51. New fertilization techniques make it possible for women to have babies in their fifties, or even sixties. Should they be allowed to have children at this age?

52.Should people be allowed to have cosmetic surgery before the age of eighteen?

53. Genetically engineered food. Pros and cons.

54. What consequences do you think cloning humans could have?

55. How can people be encouraged to become organ donors?

56. What possible alternatives do you think there are to using animals transplants?

57. Designer babies will lead to a healthier and happier population.

58. What opportunities of immortality are given to us? What are the best and the worst aspects of being immortal?

59. How might the world be different a hundred years from now?

60. Do you think research in nano-food should be banned? Why?/Why not?

61."Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children". Ecologist Leo Talbot.

62. Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

63. People and nature both lose when the tropical forest is clumsily invaded.

64. What can you as an individual do to help solve the environmental problems.

65. What is being done to save endangered plants and animals? How successful are these efforts on your country?

66.Which of the environmental problems facing earth today may, in fact, саше a warmer
world as a long-term result?

67.Why is the term "greenhouse effect" used in a discussion of global warming?

68.Do you feel people are overreacting to the problem of acid rains? Why or why not?

69.Nuclear power stations: for or against?

70. Alternative sources of energy. Is the really the answer to our energy problems in the
future?

71. Why is it important to preserve our natural and cultural heritage?

72. Books, art and music all contribute to the development of individual members of society.

73. An up-to-date fairy story. /Fairy- tale 2050

74. Reading is to mind what exercise is to the body.

75. e-books will eventually make traditional book obsolete.

76. What book(s) would you recommend reading? Substantiate your choice.

77. Music is the most universal kind of the arts.

78. “Building space hotels is a waste of time and money.” To what extent do you agree with?

79. How does environment affect culture?

80. Is TV force for good or evil?

КРИТЕРІЇ ОЦІНЮВАННЯ ЗНАНЬ І ВМІНЬ СТУДЕНТІВ, умови визначення навчального рейтингу