Exit Interview: Online Form

 

To the Student

 

Your exit interview is important to our department. This interview, in conjunction with your portfolio, should be a thoughtful, satisfying synthesis of your experience as a UW Oshkosh English major. The responses you give in this interview contain valuable information for us as we continually seek to improve our English program. (When have completed the form, click "Submit" at the bottom).

 

Student Name:

Advisor Name:

 

What information do you find most useful on the Department of English web site?

 

Are there additions we could make to the department web site?

 

 

I. Program Assessment

 

1. Do you feel that you are able to comprehend familiar as well as unfamiliar texts?

Yes

No

Sometimes

Never

Comments:

 

2. How would you rate your skills at comparing and contrasting texts?

Exceptional

Good

Fair

Poor

Deficient

Comments:

3. How do you rate your ability to write interpretive essays?

Exceptional

Good

Fair

Poor

Deficient

Comments:

4. Are you able to use reading and writing to address a wide variety of topics?

Yes

No

Sometimes

Never

Comments:

5. Are you able to find the kinds of information that are relevant to problems being addressed in your essays or your courses?

Yes

No

Sometimes

Never

Comments:

6. Are you able to respond to texts in a creative and/or original manner?

Yes

No

Sometimes

Never

Comments:

7. Are you able to revise your own work and edit the work of others?

Yes

No

Sometimes

Never

Comments:

 

 

II. Reflective Assessment

 

1. What did you expect to study when you declared English as your major?

 

2. Did you study what you expected you would in the English major?

Yes

No

 

3. In what ways were your expectations met and/or challenged?

 

4. Has your definition of the discipline of English evolved during your time in the program?
If so, in what ways has it changed?

 

5. What did you find challenging in your coursework in English at UW Oshkosh?

 

 

III. On the department

 

1. What non-classroom department activities did you participate in?

 

Examples:

	English Club	Sigma Tau Delta	Wisconsin Review
	Convocation	Poetry Readings	Study Abroad Trips
	Class Field Trips	Shakespeare on the Fox

 

 

2. Did these non-classroom activities enhance your experience as an English major? If so, in what ways?

 

3. What qualities of the major or department could be improved?

 

4. Do you have any additional comments about the major or the department or about your experiences as an English major here at UW Oshkosh?

 

 

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