Seminar Group Listening Evaluation:
Assess your listening skills by assessing the other group’s Socratic seminar by doing the following:
Assess your listening skills by assessing the other group’s Socratic seminar by doing the following:
- Review the notes you took during the other group’s Socratic seminar
- Type a 1 page evaluation of the other seminar in which you:
- Include a short, concise summary of the main questions and topics discussed in the observed seminar.
- Include the specific ideas, unanswered questions, or textual passages that you found interesting and/or are still grappling with as a result of the seminar and why. Here you may discuss the relevance, logic, depth, clarity, breadth, scope, interpretation of evidence, etc. of ideas and passages discussed. Give specific examples. Include who said the idea (this shows me you were listening carefully). Specifically explain why you found an idea interesting or have a question or intellectual tension as a result of the seminar. This should be the bulk of your reflection as it demonstrates your ability to evaluate and analyze ideas presented orally.
- Evaluation on the process of conducting an academic discussion. What are strengths of the seminar you observed? Growth areas? To what extent did the discussants share ideas equitably? Root ideas in the text? Use transitions? What specific suggestions do you have for seminar participants so that next time they are even more effective speakers?