1. Please be sure your instructor has the Senior Assessment document at least 48 hours prior to your scheduled Evaluation Conference.
2. Please type your Senior Assessment document.
3. At the top of the first page, please type the introductory information requested below in the format indicated.
4. Below the introductory information, please reproduce each of the numbered solicitations in order, and supply the information and evaluations requested of you.
5. Copies of this document, as laid out below, are available in a variety of wordprocessor formats. To save some typing, Cheryl Dake, faculty secretary in South Hall, can copy these files to your disk. Alternatively, you can cut and paste from this document to your word processor.

SENIOR ASSESSMENT

prepared by

[YOUR NAME]

Class of [year of expected graduation]

Senior Assessment Class: [number and name of course]

Instructor: [name of instructor of the senior assessment class]

Date of Class: [month and year of the senior assessment class]

Date of This Assessment:

1. Please discuss your expectations as you entered upon a Politics major at Cornell and the degree to which those expectations were fulfilled.



2. Please discuss your expectations regarding your own achievement at Cornell and the degree to which those expectations were fulfilled.



3. The department has identified five critical skills as central to our educational mission. For each of the skills listed below (a) describe your own development, (b) assess your current skill level, and (c) discuss the degree to which your work in the Politics Department facilitated your improvement. Specific examples of help or hindrance would be most helpful.

   effective research:

   critical reading:

   analytical thinking:

   cogent writing:

   articulate speaking:

4. Discuss in some detail any specific class, event, internship, etc. that you regard as a turning point in your education. That turning point might be a change in career plans, a particularly important insight about the world, or a particularly important insight about yourself.



5. Please discuss in some detail the strengths and weaknesses of the Department of Politics in terms of personnel, personality, pedagogy, and curriculum. Ask yourself, "If I were all-powerful, what would I change?"



6. Please comment on anything else you believe is pertinent.