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Assessment and Setting Goals
Goals - The first step in eQuest is to identify the specific personal issue you wish to explore via the program. If you've written your proposal for your Independent Study, then you've already selected an issue and have outlined the academic questions to research. Any range of topics are possible in eQuest, including issues related to mental and physical health, marital and family relationships, spirituality, school and job performance. Students using eQuest have explored such topics as alcoholism in the family, online crime and cyberstalking, online friendships, and the effects of stress on physical health. In their personal web pages that they create for the eQuest web site at Blackboard (in the Course Documents section), you can read their summary of these projects.
The topic you've chosen is personally meaningful to you, so consider these questions as you begin you project. You will want to discuss these questions in the "Assessment and Setting Goals" section of the paper you will write:
- What motivated you to pick this particular topic? How does it relate to your life?Assessment - For any person who participates in eQuest, it's important to assess one's level of experience, knowledge, and skills in using the internet. Look over these questions and think about how they might be related to your experience in using eQuest. You will want to write about these questions in the "Assessment and Setting Goals" section of the paper you will write:
- What questions does the topic stir up for you?
- What thoughts, feelings, and memories does the topic bring to your mind?
- What do you hope to learn and discover for yourself?
- What specific outcomes do you hope for?- How comfortable do you feel using computers and the internet?
- What kind of access do you have to a computer and the internet?
- What types of things have you done with computers and the internet?
- What are your attitudes and feelings about the internet?
- How would you describe your "life" online?
- Have your experiences been good, bad?
- What do you like and don't like to do online?
- Do you have friends online or belong to online groups?
- How well can you type?
- How do you feel about reading and writing?
- What good or bad experiences have you had with reading and writing?
- Do you feel motivated to learn about new online software and communication tools?
- What do you think about discovering new places online and meeting new people?