GRADES ARE SUBMITTED; PAPERWORK AVAILABLE!
I have submitted the grades. Please stop by my office (Bell 214) to
pick up your papers/exams/etc. (If I'm not in when you come by, send me
email or call me to find out when I will be in. If you're away for the
summer, please stop by in the Fall.)
Legally, I can no longer post the grades, even by last 4 digits of your
person number, but they should be available from MyUB.
Here's how I computed your grades; the percentages were originally
outlined on the syllabus. For details of my generic (3-point) grading
scheme, see my webpage:
"How I
Grade"
- Attendance (20% of final grade):
There were 27 class meetings at which attendance was taken.
I decided to allow 3 unexcused absences.
I then assigned grades as follows:
4xx | both | 5xx | |
A | 24-27 | i.e., if you attended at
least 24 times, you got an A
for attendance |
A- | 22-23 | |
B+ | 21 | |
B | 20 | |
B- | 18-19 | |
C+ | 17 | |
C | 14-16 | 9-16 | |
C- | 12-13 | |
D+ | 9-11 | |
D | 5-8 | |
F | 0-4 | |
2. Participation (10% of final grade):
Here, I focused on your participation as measured by
the peer editing sessions. There were 5, on Jan 29,
Feb 24, Mar 25, Apr 8, & Apr 20. I measured your
participation by your class attendance on those days.
If you attended: Then your grade is:
all 5 peer-ed sessions A
4 B
3 C+
2 C-
1 D
0 F
3. Reading Journals (20% of final grade):
A = "good" journal; i.e., notes and comments on most of
the readings
C = any journal that is not clearly A or clearly D
D = journal handed in, but looks like virtually no work
was done for it
F = no journal handed in
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NOTE: BY DOING ALL OF THE ABOVE, BUT NONE OF WHAT FOLLOWS, THE MAXIMUM
GRADE YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN WAS A "C". NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE
CHOSEN THIS OPTION.
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4. Position Papers (25% of final grade):
Here, I used the following "procedure" (I hesitate to
call it an "algorithm" :-)
drop lowest letter grade;
assign ungraded papers a grade of "A";
take the average of these 4 grades.
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NOTE: BY DOING ALL OF THE ABOVE, BUT NONE OF THE FOLLOWING, THE MAXIMUM
GRADE YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN WAS "B"; SEVERAL OF YOU TOOK THIS
OPTION.
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5. Term Paper or Final Exam (25% of final grade):
If you chose not to do either of these (thus aiming for a
maximum grade of "B"), I assigned you an "F" for this item
(which automatically gives you a "B" if you have an "A" average
on items 1-4).
The term papers were graded on my 3-item grading rubric as
explained on my grading webpage, as follows:
A = generally excellent paper
C = generally medium-quality paper
D = generally poor-quality paper
F = not handed in
The final exams were graded as follows:
Each of the 5 questions was graded on the 3-point
grading rubric as follows:
0 = not done
1 = poor-quality answer; typically given for an
answer that did not discuss any of the papers
we read and/or that consisted primarily of
quotations (not always properly attributed)
with little or no evaluations/comments
2 = partial credit; usually given for an answer
that was incomplete (i.e., that omitted one
or more of the subquestions)
3 = full credit for a generally good answer showing
that you understood and assimilated the material.
This yielded a total of 15 points, with letter grades
assigned as follows:
4xx both 5xx
A 15
A- 14
B+ 13
B 12
B- 11
C+ 10
C 9 6-9
C- 8
D+ 6-7
D 4-5
F 0-3
The class averages (and ranges) were as follows:
CSE 510 PHI 498 CSE 410
avg range avg range avg range
Item (lo/hi) (lo/hi) (lo/hi)
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Attendance A- (16/27) A (22/26) B+ (3/27)
Participation A- (C+/A) A- (B/A) A- (F/A)
Reading Journals A (F/A) A (F/A) B+ (F/A)
Position Papers A (B/A) B+ (D/A) B (D/A)
Term Papers B+ (C/A) C (C/C) D (D/D)
Final Exams B- (D/A) B (D+/A) C- (D/B)
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Course Grade A- (B-/A) B (D+/A) B- (F/A-)
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William J. Rapaport
Associate Professor of Computer Science/Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
Member, Center for Cognitive Science
Associate Director, SNePS Research Group (SNeRG)
201 Bell Hall (office: 214 Bell) | 716-645-3180 x 112
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering | fax: 716-645-3464
University at Buffalo (SUNY) | rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu
Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 |
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