Midterm Self Assessment and Goal-Setting

 

Strengths and Weaknesses in Content paragraph

               If I start with our first unit, the Introduction unit, I can say that I am strong in collecting and analyzing data and drawing data tables. Because I love analytics and think I’m good at it. My weaknesses may be that I structure the hypothesis sentence a little strangely and do not give enough detail in the conclusion. I think the reason why I can’t form the hypothesis properly is that I think in Turkish and try to translate it into English in my mind, so the sentences are a bit strange and I forget to add details in the conclusion section because I don’t think in detail. In the biology unit, I think I am strength in crossing Punnet squares, mutation, abiotic and biotic interactions, symbiotic relationships, ecology and adaptation. Because I understood these topics very well in the class and since I had learned some of them before, they did not seem difficult to me. The part where I thought I was weak was the speciation part. I didn’t fully understand Darwin’s Finches’ experiment. Because I couldn’t concentrate in the class that day and I forgot to go over it later, and that’s why that topic didn’t sit well in my mind. In the chemistry unit, I think my strengths are drawing both Bohr and Lewis diagrams, distinguishing atoms and ions, interactions of ionic and covalent compounds, naming compounds and balancing chemical reactions. Because, just like the subjects in biology, I understood these subjects very well in the classroom and since I had learned some of them before, they did not seem difficult to me. I can say that my weakness in the chemistry unit is not being able to memorize and use all the patterns in the periodic table. It would be easier to do the calculations and draw the Bohr and Lewis diagrams if I used all the patterns.