Grading and Makeups
GRADING:
A lab session lasts 170 minutes. Once again, you have one week to complete your lab report and return it to your TA's mail box located in 323 CH. Your TA will return the graded lab book at the beginning of the next lab.
Six experiments have to be done and all six will be used in computing the final course grade. The student will receive a numerical grade (0 - 10) for each lab. The grade is based on preparation and Introduction (10%), experimental work, data tables, calculations, graphs, analysis, (70%), conclusions and answers to questions (20%), as outlined already. At the end of the quarter, the average of the numerical grades is sent to your lecture professor. A 1-credit lab grade will be given independently and this grade will also be counted as 15% of your overall course grade. If a student passes the lab component and fails the lecture component, they only need to repeat the lecture component. In that case, the previous lab grade will not be factored into the repeated lecture grade, i.e. the repeated lecture course will be graded from 100% of the repeated lecture component. Students are required to take the two components concurrently as co-requisites, unless they are repeating a component.
Makeup:
Make ups are difficult or impossible to schedule. The TA will not authorize a makeup unless it is fully justified in advance. In rare situations, a makeup will be arranged by your TA and the IPL supervisor. Because of the heavy lab schedule of the IPL, as well as the fact that your TA has his/her own schedule of classes to attend a makeup may have to take place at a time inconvenient for the student. In no case are you allowed more than one makeup. Neither the technicians nor the IPL directors will arrange a makeup. If you have special problems that your TA may not be able to handle, contact one of the IPL directors or the lab supervisor, Tom Hamrick.
MAKEUP POLICY SUMMARY:
- Students cannot make up labs the following week if they miss their scheduled lab
- Missed labs get a zero
- Students can make-up only one lab during make-up period and only if they had a valid excuse for missing that lab.
- All make-ups must be approved by the IPL Directors or the IPL supervisor in consultation with the TA.
- There is ONE make-up period at the end ot the term. The date is listed on the current syllabus.
- All make-up lab reports are due as specified in the syllabus. NO EXCEPTIONS. No make-up lab reports will be accepted after the specified time.
- You must e-mail Tom Hamrick: T.Hamrick@neu.edu to arrange a make-up lab during the make-up period. Any consecutive two hour and fifty minute time during the make-up period is acceptable. Please include the experiment, day, and time in your e-mail.