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Grades - Updated
August 22, 2010
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Grades - Updated
August 22, 2010 |
| Chemistry 152/152L Fall 2010 Syllabus: Grades | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Solutions and explanations should
be clear enough so that one of your peers could easily follow what you
did if they had not worked the problem before. When an assignment calls
for a calculated answer, you increase your chances of arriving at the
correct answer (and receiving partial credit) if you show a clear, step-by-step
solution using dimensional analysis / unit conversions. The answer
alone, even if it is correct, will not earn you full credit. This means
you must show each conversion factor used in each calculation, with units
on each number. Collaboration. I encourage collaboration among you and your peers while working on labs and assignments, but not on exams or quizzes. In any case, the work you submit must be your own, and not a copy. You may split up the specific tasks, but each person must make observations, do calculations, and write answers individually. The guideline is that you should have no trouble explaining or repeating any work that you turn in. Please do your best to stay involved in classwork and lab experiments. Academic Honesty. All students are expected to uphold the highest standards of honesty and integrity in their academic work. Penalties, such as automatic grades of zero, will result from cheating, copying, plagiarism, or deceit of any kind (SDCCD Policy 3100). Cheating on a quiz or exam includes use of prewritten notes, allowing another student to copy your answers (i.e., not preventing it), looking at another student's answers, using a cell phone or programmable calculator, or deceit of any kind. In addition, please do not wear hats, hoods, headphones, or sunglasses while taking exams or quizzes. Please be fair. If you look at someone else's paper during a test, or copy directly from another student on any assignment, then you and the person from whom you copied will both earn a zero on the assignment or test without notice or exception. Miramar College may also wish to pursue academic sanctions, expulsion, and/or legal proceedings. Fairness is paramount in academics and is my first priority in grading. Grades are determined based on the percentage of points earned in each grading category. For work done in non-erasable ink, I will consider re-grade requests if you think I have assigned points erroneously. Exams & Quizzes have fixed starting and ending times, and there is an important difference between knowing the material and knowing the material well enough to finish a test within the allotted time. I expect you to anticipate my test questions and ask beforehand if you don't feel comfortable with your knowledge of a topic being covered. You should never be surprised by anything you see on an exam or quiz. The Comprehensive Final Exam and the Final Lab Quiz are both mandatory. If you anticipate having trouble attending class on the day of the finals, then you must discuss the conflict with me during the first two weeks of class. Chemistry is a cumulative subject where information builds upon concepts learned earlier in the class. All exams and quizzes are therefore comprehensive and will include material covered on previous exams, as well as newer material. You can expect the amount of old material on an exam will increase for later exams, with the final exam being completely comprehensive. Last day to drop class with no "W" recorded is 9/3/2010. Last day to drop with "W" is 10/29/2010. |
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