Grading

Grading Criteria for MAT 13

Course grades are an attempt to measure what you have learned this semester related to our key learning goals. Learning is a process that involves collaboration, struggle, and mistakes that culminates in a performance; therefore, some of the grade is based on low-stakes opportunities that value teamwork, communication, and risk-taking. Other parts of the grade are based on formal assessments of your achievement of the learning goals for the course.

Learning Units (40%)

A student's unit grade is made up of 25% from the Preparation, 25% from the Exercise, and 50% from Collaboration. Some units will only have a Collaboration and Exercise component, so those will be 50%.

Preparations

• • • These assignments should be done before the associated Collaboration session. The content of Preparation assignments helps prepare you for the mathematics and the contexts you will encounter in your group when doing a collaboration.

    • You will do these assignments on you own.

    • These assignments are fully-auto graded.

    • A Preparation assignment is 25% of your unit grade.

    • Always use the question Hints and Solutions when working through an assignment.

Collaborations

• • • You will do these components with your group.

    • You will use Zoom (built into RealizeIt) while completing the collaboration material.

    • Zoom sessions are recorded! I will view all or part of the recording to check-in that you are working well in your group.

    • When you are doing a Collaboration session with your group, make sure to use the Hints and View Solution.

    • After you complete a collaboration, I will view the recording and review your group's answers before giving your group a grade.

    • A Collaboration session is 50% of your unit grade.

    • I will also give the class feedback on your collaboration work every Friday morning during our live Lab for Statistics zoom sessions.

Exercises

• • • These assignments should be done after the associated Collaboration session.

    • You will do these assignments on your own.

    • These assignments are fully-auto graded.

    • An Exercise assignment is 25% of your unit grade.

    • Always use the question Hints and Solutions when working through an assignment.

Canvas Quizzes (20%)

• • • You will have Canvas Quizzes at the end of each module (about 4-5 units).

    • Each of these assignments will contain 5-10 multiple choice or numerical answer questions

    • You will get two attempts and keep your highest grade.

    • Note: These quizzes will be generated using question banks, so you may get slightly different questions during each attempt, answers may be in a different order and your questions may be different than other students.

Midterm (20%) & Final Exam (20%)

A midterm will be given about halfway through the semester and a comprehensive final exam will be given at the end of the course. These exams are mandatory, they will be proctored via Zoom during Lab for Statistics Friday mornings. Part of the exams will be multiple choice and the other part will be open ended questions. You will only get one attempt and the exams will be timed. If you know ahead of time that you will not be able to attend the scheduled date of the exam, please be sure to reach out well in advance so that we can set up a different date for your exam.

The grading scale will be as follows

Your overall grade, rounded to the nearest whole number will be used to award letter grades. For example, 79.54% rounds to 80% and it will be a B, whereas a 79.23% rounds to a 79% and it would be a C.

A = 90% and above,

B = 80-89%,

C = 70-79%,

D = 60-69%,

F = below 60%.