Mon, February 14 Friday, March 18 (last day of classes before spring break) Fri, April 29BIOS 101, BIOLOGY OF POPULATIONS & COMMUNITIES Prof. Nyberg, 9 AM 250 SES Spring 2011 GRADING POLICIES and PROCEDURES Integrity is an essential component of science, education and many other human interactions. All assignments turned in by a student must have been created by that student (i.e. not copied from other sources without proper attribution). Consult “Student Code of Conduct”, if you have doubts about what is meant by ‘created by yourself.’ If the staff detects copying or other types of cheating the individual(s) involved will be penalized. The total points which can be earned in BioS 101A are 378 broken down among parts of the course as follows: Type Points per each # Points Exams 80 3 240Discussion Sheets 1 15 15Problem Sets 10 3 30Labs with no report 3 11 33Lab Reports 15 4 60 TOTAL 378 Use the point range listed below to convert your points to a letter grade: A 378 – 325 B 324 – 280 C 279 – 232 D 231 – 187 E ≤ 186 Here is more information about the types/parts: EXAMINATIONS: Each exam is worth 80 points and will consist of 40 multiple choice questions (each worth 2 points) drawn from Lecture, Discussion, Laboratory, Problem Sets and assigned Readings. The 3 EXAMS (50 minutes each) will be given during the scheduled lecture on the following dates: Mon, February 14 Friday, March 18 (last day of classes before spring break) Fri, April 29 There are NO make-up exams for the above hour examinations. If you miss an exam, provide a written explanation to your teaching assistant when you return to UIC and ask for a copy of the missed exam. Your score on the Optional Final Examination (OFE) will replace your lowest exam score.The OPTIONAL FINAL EXAM will be given ONLY during the scheduled final exam time: Tuesday, May 3 (10:30 - 12:30 AM) in 250 SES. The Optional Final will be comprehensive. There should be no Final Exam conflicts, because BioS 101 follows the UIC schedule. If another course creates a conflict by deviating from the UIC schedule, the other course will have to make special arrangements for your final exam.Teaching Assistant Graded: A total of 138 points may be earned. DISCUSSION: BEFORE each Discussion students will answer the Discussion questions/problems in their laboratory book. All assignments will be submitted to your Teaching Assistant (TA) prior to or at the beginning of the Discussion period, otherwise the assignment is LATE. Each of weeks Discussion assignment is worth 1 point (total possible = 15). No points are earned if you are absent from Discussion regardless of the reason, including you came into the course late. PROBLEM SETS (three) each worth 10 points will be assigned (total possible = 30). The Problem Sets are due in Discussion during the week specified in syllabus (i.e., 5, 8, 14). Problem sets will be graded by your TA. LABORATORY: During each Laboratory students will fill in Data Sheets based on their observations and understanding of observations. Completion of the data sheet is worth a maximum of 3 points for those labs with no reports (total possible = 3x11 = 33). Show your lab sheet to your TA prior to leaving the laboratory. No data sheet points are earned if you are absent from laboratory. If you miss a lab for which a report is due, you can NOT earn credit for a lab report. Individuals that will miss a lab because of participation in a UIC sponsored event (such as athletes) may attend a different lab section in the same week as they lab they will miss (subject to email-confirmed approval of both your TA and the TA of the section you hope to attend). LABORATORY REPORTS: All lab reports must be submitted as WORD or OPEN OFFICE electronic file to your Teaching Assistant (TA). Each lab report will be worth a maximum of 15 points. The laboratories you will write reports on are Medieval Science (due week 4), Human Variation (due week 7), Natural Selection (due week 9) and Ecological Measurement (due week 12). Reports should begin with a section, called the INTRODUCTION, which describes what you should be learning from the lab. Usually the introduction includes information from sources besides the manual. The next session is the METHODS. Since you will be following directions in the lab manual this section can be brief, concentrating of deviations of what you actually did from the directions in the manual. The RESULTS is the section of the report where you describe the data you have collected and process the data in a manner that presents the data in an interpreted form. Statistics such as the mean and variance should be reported in the results and graphs of the data should be prepared. Simple graphs prepared by your spreadsheet should be inserted in your report. The next section is the DISCUSSION. In this section you describe how your observations described in the results support (or fail to support) the idea of the lab which was presented in the introduction. The discussion may also cite information from other sources. The final section of your report is references, a list of the sources of information that you have used. The reports will be written by each student individually even when data was collected by a group of students. Late lab reports will NOT be accepted. The record of the points you earned will be kept on Blackboard. You should be checking that the points recorded on Blackboard are the same as the returned graded work. All problems about points earned not settled with the TA must be raised (by email to Nyberg), and hopefullywill be resolved, by 5 PM on Friday of the 15th week. (Do not waste your time by trying to alter your total after the course is over.) Once you learn your score on the 3rd exam (given on Friday of 15th week, you will be able to project your final GRADE (using the ranges above), If you can improved your grade by using Optional Final Examination (OFE) score to replace your low exam, take the OFE. COMPLAINTS and GRIEVANCES: Complaints about grading should be brought first to the attention of person responsible for the grading; your teaching assistant (TA) for lab reports and problem sets, Dr. Nyberg for exam questions. If you do not accept you TA’s decision as fair, you may bring your problem to Dr. Molumby. If your problem is not solved by the staff in a manner you accept, UIC has grievance procedures