Online reading assignment question: importance of universe origin

Astronomy 210, Fall Semester 2009
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

Students have a weekly online reading assignment (hosted by SurveyMonkey.com), where they answer questions based on reading their textbook, material covered in previous lectures, opinion questions, and/or asking (anonymous) questions or making (anonymous) comments. Full credit is given for completing the online reading assignment before next week's lecture, regardless if whether their answers are correct/incorrect. Selected results/questions/comments are addressed by the instructor at the start of the following lecture.

(The following question was asked subsequent to lectures on cosmology and the big bang.)

How important is it for you to know how the universe began? (Graded for completion.)
(A) Unimportant.
(B) Of little importance.
(C) Somewhat important.
(D) Important.
(E) Very important.

Student responses
Sections 70158, 70160
(A) : 2 students
(B) : 7 students
(C) : 11 students
(D) : 22 students
(E) : 16 students