CSE 8A Basics
Your grade will be based on the weighted average of your scores on PSAs, quizzes, exams, clicker participation and critical required activities (things absolutely critical to your learning professional development, and our support of your learning, but we need you to do outside class).
The final grade will be weighted as follows:
Critical Required Activities 2% (complete ALL for full 2%)
In-Class Quizzes 4%
PeerWise Quizzes 4%
Clicker Particiation 2% (for clicking in at least 80% of time)
Midterm 23%
PSAs 30%
Final 35%
I will grade on a 90%, 80%,70%,60% scale. "Plusses" and "minuses" are given out only at my discretion. All grades are FIXED within 7 days of the grade being posted on gradesource -- no regrade requests
will be taken after that time.
Note: 35% of your grade is based on the final exam. Different people master new material at different rates. We encourage you (through weekly quizzes and assignments) to constantly be working on your masterly of the core computing concepts developed in this class. Computing is a practical profession -- which means you need PRACTICE to really master it.
We give significant weight to the final exam to provide the opportunity for learners at all rates who do master the material to succeed in this class. No matter if you are a sprinter or a long-distance runner in the classroom, as long as you cross the finish line with mastery of the required material and have kept a reasonable pace throughout the class, you should succeed.
This is why we also require that you must score at least 55% on the final exam to pass the course. Anyone who scores le4ss than a 55% on the final exam will receive an F -- regardless of the percentages described above.
See the quizzes writeup and the PSAs writeup for specifcs on grading of each.