Student Interviews
Instrument 2: Foundations
of Neuroscience Interview Questions
Project: Neuroscience Laboratory Courses
Developed
Claremont Colleges
Funding Source: NSF: Instrumentation and
and Laboratory Improvement (DUE)
Purpose: To gather data from each student
about undergraduate neuroscience course experiences
Administered To: Neuroscience students
after the course was completed
Topics Covered:
- Course Evaluation: assignments, content,
effectiveness, exemplary areas, instructor, materials,
opportunity to learn
- Impact on Outcomes: practical use, skills,
student understanding
Format/Length: 11 questions total, 6 open-ended
and 5 closed-ended 6-point Likert scale questions
Foundations of Neuroscience
Interview Questions
- What elements of the course worked best to facilitate
your learning?
- What elements of the course were least helpful in facilitating
your learning?
- What changes if any would you recommend to improve the
course?
- How effective was it to have more than one professor teach
this course?
- Did you find the presentation of multiple theoretical
perspectives useful/helpful for understanding the field
of neuroscience?
- How helpful was this course at developing and improving
my ability to think critically and independently?
- Please rate the following course components on a 1 (learned
a little) to 6 (learned a great deal) scale:
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- Module A (Cognitive Neuroscience)
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- Module B (Neurochemistry/Pharmacology)
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- Module C (Electrical Nature of Neural Communication)
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