Item

Course Grade Percentage

Rationale & Description

Attendance

5%

It is expected that students attend all 36 in-person classes. However, to accommodate emergencies and illness, students will be allowed to miss two (2) class sessions without penalty. 

The classroom door shuts at the start of class and will reopen to allow late students into class after 15 minutes.  Students that arrive more than 15 minutes late to class may not be permitted into the class.

Students that have more than 3 absences and/or have missed more than one exam may receive a WU in the course. 

Homework

(i.e., Blackboard Quizzes)

20%

Each lecture video has Blackboard homework/quiz with 5-10 questions which will count as the homework grade.  These questions are meant to reinforce the lesson’s topics and to serve as formative assessment for the instructor. Students will have unlimited access to improve their homework scores for the length of the class.  

Four (4)

Module Exams

60%

Four (4) exams, consisting of multiple-choice questions, short answer questions and extended response questions.  The exams will serve to measure your understanding of many skills within the chapter and their connection to skills and/or theories from the previous chapter.  You will be given a test blueprint a week prior to the exam with exam topic and item information. 

Make-up tests will be available December 13 – December 16, 2023. Students that took the originally scheduled exam may also retest to improve their score during this time as well.

Three (3) Mini-Projects

15%

Students will complete 3 projects/extended to demonstrate their understanding of the entire statistical process.  These projects will generally take 8-10 hours to complete. Instructions and scoring rubrics for each mini project are provided 2-3 weeks before the due date.