Editing Intro to Programming and Data Science (Fall 2021)
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This course will follow a "self-assessment" philosophy. I am more interested in helping you to learn things that will be useful to you than in assigning grades. The university still requires grades, so you will be leading the evaluation of your work. | This course will follow a "self-assessment" philosophy. I am more interested in helping you to learn things that will be useful to you than in assigning grades. The university still requires grades, so you will be leading the evaluation of your work. In week two and again at the end of the course, you will reflect on what you have accomplished thus far, how it has met, not met, or exceeded expectations, based both on rubrics and personal goals and objectives. At each of these stages you will receive feedback on your assessments. By the end of the semester, you should have a clear vision of your accomplishments and growth, which you will turn into a grade. As the instructor-of-record, I maintain the right to disagree with your assessment and alter grades as I see fit, but any time that I do this it will be accompanied by an explanation and discussion. These personal assessments, reflecting both honest and meaningful reflection of your work will be the most important factor in final grades. | ||
I suggest that we use the following rubric in our assessment: | I suggest that we use the following rubric in our assessment: | ||
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* Sharing work early allowing extra time for engagement with others. | * Sharing work early allowing extra time for engagement with others. | ||
* Write reflections that grapple meaningfully with lessons learned as well as challenges. | * Write reflections that grapple meaningfully with lessons learned as well as challenges. | ||
* Complete all | * Complete most, if not all programming assignments at a high level. | ||
B: Reflects strong work. Work at this level will be of consistently high quality. Students reaching this level of achievement will: | B: Reflects strong work. Work at this level will be of consistently high quality. Students reaching this level of achievement will: | ||
* Be more safe or consistent than the work described above. | * Be more safe or consistent than the work described above. | ||
* Ask meaningful questions of peers and engage them in fruitful discussion. | * Ask meaningful questions of peers and engage them in fruitful discussion. | ||
* Exceed requirements, but in fairly straightforward ways | * Exceed requirements, but in fairly straightforward ways - e.g., an additional post in discussion every week. | ||
* Compose complete and sufficiently detailed reflections. | * Compose complete and sufficiently detailed reflections. | ||
* Complete many of the programming assignments | * Complete many of the programming assignments. | ||
C: This reflects meeting the minimum expectations of the course. Students reaching this level of achievement | C: This reflects meeting the minimum expectations of the course. Students reaching this level of achievement | ||
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D/F: These are reserved for cases in which students do not complete work or participate. Students may also be | D/F: These are reserved for cases in which students do not complete work or participate. Students may also be | ||
impeding the ability of others to learn. | impeding the ability of others to learn. | ||
= Schedule = | = Schedule = |