Link to the 5 Questions in the Good Habits for Evidence- Check Your Knowledge Quiz

 

What’s on This Webpage:

Why Is the Check Your Knowledge Quiz on Good Habits for Evidence in Your Interest?

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More and more students seem not know these basic Good Habits for Evidence. For example, over 65% of my students surveyed since 2011 did not know they needed to be factually accurate or use only a reliable source when writing an essay about something that is real (such as history, biology, or business). These Good Habits for Evidence apply everywhere, including on a job, and they have been standards for evidence in style guides for research (such as MLA and the Chicago Manual of Style) consistently.

 

I do not think it is fair to hurt students’ current grades (or their future success) because they do not know what professors and bosses will expect. My student surveys from last term suggested that this quiz and the resources with it might help. I am also providing resources on how I do things: If you already are succeeding with evidence, then keeping doing that; if you are not, then how I do things may help choose the habits you want for your future. What I learned a long time ago is that being smart is not enough—it is how you do your work that determines your success.

 

One last thing. You may be surprised to have criteria for grading explained as a job issue. Talking about evidence and jobs causes students to think about the real world. To summarize this thought, if a company could not survive financially if it paid people for the kind of work shown in the student examples in the quiz, then perhaps you do not want to have habits that result in this kind of work. Choose the work habits for the person you want to be and the life you want to have.

 

What Are You Going to Do?

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Here’s what is going to happen and what you are to do:

1.     You use this link to decide your answers for the Check Your Knowledge quiz for Good Habits for Evidence.

2.     Once you have decided your answers, click the Review button below this link to display the actual quiz.

Blackboard displays the quiz.

3.     After you submit the quiz but before you do anything else, look at the results of the quiz so you know a) what you missed and b) what you need to use next.
For example, you might see these words in the feedback section of a question: If you missed this question, look for the heading Reliable Sources Only in the link that Blackboard displays below this quiz.

After you leave the quiz, Blackboard displays the link If You Missed One of the Questions.

4.     After you have used the link If You Missed One of the Questions, click the Review button below it.

Blackboard then displays two things: a link and an acknowledgement quiz.

5.     Look over the link so you know the kinds of resources that are available to help students with different needs. – You will want to come back to these resources when you start your preparation for your Unit 1 Essays.

6.     Click on the Good Habits for Evidence Acknowledgement Quiz and answer True.

What I will do after that: If you answer True, then I will later enter 20 points extra credit in Good Habits for Evidence_ec. Keeping that 20 points is conditional on your doing what is explained in the Syllabus in the section on extra credit. (It is before the Course Schedule.)

Background Information about the Student Examples and the Multiple Choice Answers

What Were the Instructions to the 5 Students?

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All 5 students in the group below were supposed:

·         To answer the same question: Using content from the required reading, what do Grant’s “Peace Policy” and Dawes Severalty Act reveal about what happens to Native Americans from about 1868 to about 1890?

FYI:  This question is typical of all of the questions asked in this course.

·         To use the same source: Click on the links for what our textbook says about Grant’s “Peace Policy” and about the Dawes Severalty Act. – You must look at the source (at the evidence for the essay) as you make your decision about each student example. (I will look at the source when I make my decision about your grade on your essay.)

What Are the 5 Possible Multiple Choice Answers? (One for Each Student Example)

The 5 possible multiple choice answers are the same for each student example, and you use each only one time. Each student example and each multiple choice answer covers one of the 5 Good Habits for Evidence that:

·         You will use in this course in writing your essays.

·         I will use in grading your essays.

Making Your Decision about Which Multiple Choice Item Applies to Each Student’s Essay

Compare the source on Grant’s “Peace Policy” and Dawes Severalty Act with each of the student’s answers. Decide which of the 5 basic good habits for evidence each student did not do. Click on the links for what our textbook says about Grant’s “Peace Policy” and about the Dawes Severalty Act. You must look at the source (at the evidence for the essay) as you make your decision.

 

Student 1 wrote this answer: With Grant’s “Peace Policy,” reservations were created for Native Americans. If they accepted the church, the Native Americans would be left alone. If resistance came up, the army would be sent to stay on the reservations. “To whites, the peace policy was humane. For native Americans, it was another in the long series of white efforts to undermine their way of life.” The Dawes Severalty Act was passed in 1887. It “authorized the president to survey Native American reservations and divide them into 160-acre farms.” Reformers and westerners viewed the law differently. “For the reformers, this law pushed Native Americans toward white civilization; for the western settlers, it made Indian land available.” The law actually “undermined the tribal culture” and “helped allow whites to start mining and cattle ranching.”

 

The good habit for evidence that Student 1 did not follow is:

 

 

a.

For your source of facts, use only sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t.

 

b.

You must use reliable sources to verify everything that you write or say. To verify a fact means to confirm that the reliable source specifically states that fact (whether you wrote the words or the author did). — With bosses (or professors), you will be in trouble if you are incorrect, so never guess and instead verify before you write or speak.

 

c.

If a boss (or professor) asks you for the proof of something that you said or wrote, you must be able to state the name of the reliable source and exactly where (a specific page) in that source that each fact came from (whether you wrote the words or the author did). — With bosses (or professors), you cannot just claim that a specific page provides evidence. If a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage on that page would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will your boss (or professor).

 

d.

If you use words (even phrases) created by another person, then follow standards for using quotation marks (“”) to reveal clearly to your reader what words you created and what words the author created. — This is a requirement in courses, and in some jobs failure to do this is a firing offense.

 

e.

If you use quotation marks (“”) to reveal words created by another person but you change those words, then carefully reveal those changes by following standards for using quotation marks (“”), ellipses (…), and/or square brackets ([ ]). This may not be just a punctuation error. — Instead, by your changes, you may be misleading your reader about the evidence, and never mislead a boss (or professor) about the evidence.

 

Student 2 wrote this answer: Grant's Peace Policy helps the Native Americans get on their own feet to work for living and freedom. Also, lets their children get educated. The Grant's Peace Policy was to take justice to its right place. The Dawes Severalty Act lets Native Americans to have land to build a home for them to live in. Also, the act lets Native Americans have the rights to pick where they want to live. This also includes water, electricity. But the Dawes Severalty Act limits how much the Native Americans can have of land, water, and electricity, and get paid. 

 

The requirement that Student 2 did not follow is:

 

 

a.

For your source of facts, use only sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t.

 

 

b.

You must use reliable sources to verify everything that you write or say. To verify a fact means to confirm that the reliable source specifically states that fact (whether you wrote the words or the author did). — With bosses (or professors), you will be in trouble if you are incorrect, so never guess and instead verify before you write or speak.

 

 

c.

If a boss (or professor) asks you for the proof of something that you said or wrote, you must be able to state the name of the reliable source and exactly where (a specific page) in that source that each fact came from (whether you wrote the words or the author did). — With bosses (or professors), you cannot just claim that a specific page provides evidence. If a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage on that page would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will your boss (or professor).

 

 

d.

If you use words (even phrases) created by another person, then follow standards for using quotation marks (“”) to reveal clearly to your reader what words you created and what words the author created. — This is a requirement in courses, and in some jobs failure to do this is a firing offense.

 

 

e.

If you use quotation marks (“”) to reveal words created by another person but you change those words, then carefully reveal those changes by following standards for using quotation marks (“”), ellipses (…), and/or square brackets ([ ]). This may not be just a punctuation error. — Instead, by your changes, you may be misleading your reader about the evidence, and never mislead a boss (or professor) about the evidence.

 

 

 

Student 3 wrote this answer: The Native Americans’ hunting ground grew less and less. President Grant “appointed Ely Parker commissioner of Indian Affairs.” The herds of the buffalo also grew smaller. The Dawes Severalty act “authorized the president to survey the Native American reservation and divide by 60 acres.”

 

The good habit for evidence that Student 3 did not follow is:

 

 

a.

For your source of facts, use only sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t.

 

 

b.

You must use reliable sources to verify everything that you write or say. To verify a fact means to confirm that the reliable source specifically states that fact (whether you wrote the words or the author did). — With bosses (or professors), you will be in trouble if you are incorrect, so never guess and instead verify before you write or speak.

 

 

c.

If a boss (or professor) asks you for the proof of something that you said or wrote, you must be able to state the name of the reliable source and exactly where (a specific page) in that source that each fact came from (whether you wrote the words or the author did). — With bosses (or professors), you cannot just claim that a specific page provides evidence. If a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage on that page would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will your boss (or professor).

 

 

d.

If you use words (even phrases) created by another person, then follow standards for using quotation marks (“”) to reveal clearly to your reader what words you created and what words the author created. — This is a requirement in courses, and in some jobs failure to do this is a firing offense.

 

 

e.

If you use quotation marks (“”) to reveal words created by another person but you change those words, then carefully reveal those changes by following standards for using quotation marks (“”), ellipses (…), and/or square brackets ([ ]). This may not be just a punctuation error. — Instead, by your changes, you may be misleading your reader about the evidence, and never mislead a boss (or professor) about the evidence.

 

 

 

Student 4 wrote this answer: The opening of the West to railroads and the spread of farmers onto the Great Plains meant that Native Americans had to fight for what they had considered theirs, and found their hunting grounds and tribal domains under siege. A majority of western settlers advocated removal or extermination of the Indian tribes.  Grant's administration pursued what became known as the “peace policy.” Specific land was assigned to be Indian reservations. If the Indians accepted the presence of church officials on the reservations, the government left them alone. Otherwise, the army would see to it that Indians stayed on the reservations. To whites, the peace policy was humane. For Native Americans, it was another in the long series of white efforts to undermine their way of life. In 1887, The Dawes Severalty Act was passed by Congress. The law authorized the president to survey Native American reservations and divide them into 160-acre farms. This land could not be sold or leased for 25 years. Any surplus land could be bought by whites. For the reformers, this law pushed Native Americans toward white civilization. 

 

The good habit for evidence that Student 4 did not follow is:

 

 

a.

For your source of facts, use only sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t.

 

 

b.

You must use reliable sources to verify everything that you write or say. To verify a fact means to confirm that the reliable source specifically states that fact (whether you wrote the words or the author did). — With bosses (or professors), you will be in trouble if you are incorrect, so never guess and instead verify before you write or speak.

 

 

c.

If a boss (or professor) asks you for the proof of something that you said or wrote, you must be able to state the name of the reliable source and exactly where (a specific page) in that source that each fact came from (whether you wrote the words or the author did). — With bosses (or professors), you cannot just claim that a specific page provides evidence. If a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage on that page would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will your boss (or professor).

 

 

d.

If you use words (even phrases) created by another person, then follow standards for using quotation marks (“”) to reveal clearly to your reader what words you created and what words the author created. — This is a requirement in courses, and in some jobs failure to do this is a firing offense.

 

 

e.

If you use quotation marks (“”) to reveal words created by another person but you change those words, then carefully reveal those changes by following standards for using quotation marks (“”), ellipses (…), and/or square brackets ([ ]). This may not be just a punctuation error. — Instead, by your changes, you may be misleading your reader about the evidence, and never mislead a boss (or professor) about the evidence.

 

 

 

Student 5 wrote this answer: Grant's goal of the "peace policy" was to minimize military conflict with the Indians. The Indians were to stay on reservations where they would receive government subsidies and training supervised by religious denominations. Indians were no longer allowed to engage in raids or end war parties off the reservations. The Army's job was to force them back. Native Americans were increasingly forced to live on reservations. Grant appointed his aide General Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The Grant administration focused on well-meaning goals of placing "good men" in positions of influence such as Quakers as US Indian agents to various posts throughout the nation.

 

On the other hand, the Dawes Act of 1887 authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and to divide it into 160-acre plots for individual Indians to assimilate them. The act also provided that the government would open the lands up for settlement by non-Indians.

 

The good habit for evidence that Student 5 did not follow is:

 

 

a.

For your source of facts, use only sources your boss (or professor) accepts as reliable. — For example, unless your boss (or professor) specifically tells you “Google this for me and copy anything you like from the Internet and email it to me,” don’t.

 

 

b.

You must use reliable sources to verify everything that you write or say. To verify a fact means to confirm that the reliable source specifically states that fact (whether you wrote the words or the author did). — With bosses (or professors), you will be in trouble if you are incorrect, so never guess and instead verify before you write or speak.

 

 

c.

If a boss (or professor) asks you for the proof of something that you said or wrote, you must be able to state the name of the reliable source and exactly where (a specific page) in that source that each fact came from (whether you wrote the words or the author did). — With bosses (or professors), you cannot just claim that a specific page provides evidence. If a reasonable person using a reliable dictionary and reading the entire passage on that page would not agree that you provided evidence, then neither will your boss (or professor).

 

 

d.

If you use words (even phrases) created by another person, then follow standards for using quotation marks (“”) to reveal clearly to your reader what words you created and what words the author created. — This is a requirement in courses, and in some jobs failure to do this is a firing offense.

 

 

e.

If you use quotation marks (“”) to reveal words created by another person but you change those words, then carefully reveal those changes by following standards for using quotation marks (“”), ellipses (…), and/or square brackets ([ ]). This may not be just a punctuation error. — Instead, by your changes, you may be misleading your reader about the evidence, and never mislead a boss (or professor) about the evidence.

 

 

 

Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2014

 

 

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