Tuesday, January 22, 2008

CPS scores up for lecture 5 (L5)

Look in your My Grades page. The scores for today's CPS session are now UP inside Webcourses. Every lecture we will have two sets of data like this, e.g.,
L5 correct7
L5 answered8

This is how your My Grades page will look if you answered 8 questions this morning and got 7 of them correct.

We will have varying numbers of questions in CPS, usually a handful, sometimes more than that. At the end of the semester, if I have asked 120 CPS questions and you have answered 102 of them, that is 85% answered. Therefore you will get all 20 points in the CPS part of your semester grade, as explained in the syllabus. If, however, you only answered 81 out of 120, that would be 67.5% answered, and you would get proportionally fewer points on your semester grade; in this case, the number of points, n, is 15.88, which I would round up to 16 points for simplicity.
The "number correct" score for each session, starting with L5, will tally up this way for you at the end of the semester.