Grading
| Percent of Total | Assignment |
|---|---|
| 70 | 10 Quizzes |
| 10 | 10 Homeworks |
| 10 | Rotating Front Row |
| 10 | Attendance |
Quizzes (70%)
- There will be ten quizzes, each consisting of 25 multiple-choice questions. To study, use the “check your understanding” questions at the end of each classwork and homework page.
- Each test will be administered online through Canvas using Browser Lockdown. You must keep your eyes on the screen throughout the test. If Canvas flags an attempt for suspicious behavior, that attempt will receive a zero. You may take the test again if there is still time remaining in the testing window and if you have attempts left.
- Each quiz will be available for a one-week testing window (Monday morning through Sunday night), and you may choose when to take it during that week.
- You will have 50 minutes for each attempt.
- After completing an attempt, you must wait 24 hours before attempting the test again. You can take each quiz up to 3 times, and only your highest score will count.
- To protect the security of the test questions during the one-week window, you will not be able to review individual questions or see which answers were correct or incorrect after an attempt. Instead, you will receive feedback showing your performance by topic. For example: Summary Statistics: 80%. Data Visualization: 90%. Vectors, tibbles, and pipes: 100%. Total: 90%. Use this feedback to identify the topics you should review before your next attempt.
- Because the ten quizzes together make up 70% of your final grade and each quiz is weighted equally, each quiz counts for 7% of your final grade.
Homework (10%)
At the end of the week, you’ll get a programming assignment to complete before Monday’s class. There will be ten homework assignments, so each one is worth 1% of your final grade.
These assignments are designed to be very gentle and beginner-friendly. But if you have trouble, come to office hours, ask one another, or email for help.
You won’t receive credit for late homework, so make sure to submit your work, even if it’s not finished, before the deadline. Homework is always due before Monday’s class.
Participation (10%)
We’ll have a rotating front row in this class. On your assigned days, you’ll sit in the front row and share a desk whiteboard with a partner. I’ll introduce a problem to the class, and then I’ll let everyone work on it for ten minutes. I’ll look over your shoulder as you work on it with your partner.
You don’t need to arrive at a solution; the problem is new to everyone. What I’m looking for is that you make an honest effort, you don’t give up, and you stay engaged. I’ll invite the pair who I think got the furthest on the problem to the doc-cam to explain their reasoning.
Front row students who aren’t called to the board should help the pair at the board, push back when something doesn’t look right, and ask good questions. If you’re in the front row and you were engaged, you get full credit for the day, whether or not you were called up. I’ll note who was there and who was participating during class.
Each front row day is worth 5% of your grade. You have two.
| Last name starts with… | Rotating Front Row is… |
|---|---|
| A, B | Class 2: 9/30 and Class 11: 11/2 |
| C, D, E | Class 3: 10/5 and Class 12: 11/4 |
| F, G | Class 4: 10/7 and Class 13: 11/9 |
| H, I, J, K | Class 5: 10/12 and Class 14: 11/16 |
| L | Class 6: 10/14 and Class 15: 11/18 |
| M, N | Class 7: 10/19 and Class 16: 11/23 |
| O, P, Q, R | Class 8: 10/21 and Class 17: 11/25 |
| S | Class 9: 10/26 and Class 18: 11/30 |
| T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z | Class 10: 10/28 and Class 19: 12/2 |
If you miss your front row day because of an emergency, please email me with documentation and we’ll reschedule you.
If you know ahead of time that you will need to be absent during your front row day, please consider the front row days to be trade-able: find a classmate willing to trade with you and email me (copying the other student) to let me know you have traded days.
Attendance (10%)
I’ll take attendance by collecting your notes at the end of each class. I’ll be looking for evidence that you thoughtfully worked through each problem, so your notes should show your reasoning and attempts, not just final answers.
Your notes must be on paper (sorry, iPad users!). I’ll return them at the next class session. If you think you’ll need your notes before then, I recommend taking a picture before turning them in.
There are 19 class sessions, so attendance in each class is worth just over 0.5 percentage points toward your final grade, bringing the total attendance component to 10%.
For each problem, I’ll select one set of especially clear and insightful notes to include in the course workbook as an example to help everyone review (I will redact your name). If you don’t want your notes to be considered, please let me know as soon as possible.
Final Grades
At the end of the course, I’ll take your final grade on Canvas and round it to the nearest integer, and then apply this grading scale:
- A+: 97 or above
- A: 94-96
- A-: 90-93
- B+: 87-89
- B: 84-86
- B-: 80-83
- C+: 77-79
- C: 74-76
- C-: 70-73
- D+: 67-69
- D: 64-66
- D-: 60-63
- F: 59 or under
For example: if you end the class with a 93.49, that rounds to a 93, which gives you an A-. If you end the class with a 93.50, that rounds to a 94, which gives you an A.