Assessment+Revision+Policy

This page details the rules for revising your work on Assessments in MAT 135. In the syllabus, it says:

//Students will be given opportunities to revise their work on Assessments during the semester to recover part of the credit they may lose. On the first Assessment, students will be given the opportunity to rework individually any problem on which they lost points; the revised Assessment will be re-graded with the same rubric, and students will earn back 25% of the difference between the original and revised work. For the remaining two assessments, students will be given a choice between a traditional re-writing of the assessment (as with Assessment 1) or an oral re-taking of key questions from the assessment. More information on the oral re-taking process will be distributed closer to Assessment 2. //

Below are the details.

Assessment 1 Revision Policy
Assessment 1 will be handed back on Tuesday, March 8. Your paper will contain a minimal amount of markings and comments, just enough to let you know your errors, how many points you lost because of those errors, and perhaps a little direction concerning the nature of those errors. You may rework any problem on which you lost points. Your revised work will be re-graded using the same grading rubric as the first time, and you will be refunded 25% of the difference in points between the original take of the Assessment and the revision, rounded up.

For example, if you originally scored a 78 on the assessment and your revision is graded at a 95, you will receive 0.25*(95-78) = 0.25(17) = 4.25 -> 5 points back, for a final score of 83.

Your revisions are due by your section's class time on **Friday, March 11**. You will also need to hand in the original assessment along with it so that I can make comparisons. BOTH papers must be submitted by the deadline.


 * You do not have to rework any problem on which you did not lose points, even if there are markings or notes on it.
 * If you lost points on one part of a problem but not the other parts of the same problem, you do not have to revise the entire thing. For example, if you got full credit on parts (a) and (c) of a problem but lost points on part (b), you do not have to revise parts (a) or (c).
 * You may revise as much or as little of your assessment as you wish. You may even choose not to revise any of it if you don't want to.
 * Please abide by the same standards for work and formatting as on the original: Use Wolfram|Alpha, Excel, or Winplot as you wish; put your writeup on separate sheets (NOT on the original assessment); and show all work unless the problem specifies otherwise.
 * Late submissions or submissions put on the original assessment will not be accepted.
 * Submissions of the revision without the original assessment will not be accepted.
 * You have until noon on Thursday, March 10 to inform me of any grading errors that I might have made. After that time, the original assessment's grade will be considered final.
 * To guard against academic dishonesty, be advised that your original assessments have been photographed. If you alter the original assessment and attempt to use that alteration to get a higher grade, you will be guilty of cheating.
 * The revisions on these assessments are to be considered take-home exams for the purposes of collaboration. In other words, **you are not allowed to collaborate with any other person besides the professor as you work your revisions**. This includes Math Study Center staff; the MSC workers have been notified to inform me of any attempts to get help from them on Assessment revisions. However: I am very happy to help you with your work on the revisions and answer questions about the grading, so please utilize me as a resource as you work.