COMP2300/6300 Assessment 2008
[Assessment Scheme]]
[Extensions]]
[Plagiarism]]
[Marked Work]]
[Supp Exams]
Proposed Assessment Scheme
(c.f. the scheme for 2006)
The assessment for COMP2300 in 2007 will be in the following parts:
- Tutorial/laboratory mark: 10%
-
This will include 5 computer assessed laboratory exercises,
plus a mark allocated by your tutor on your tutorial
preparation, attendance, and participation in discussions.
- Assignments: 30%, total of three,
weighting of each subject to minor adjustments:
- Assignment 1: 12%
(released week 2, due
end week 5 early week 6)
- Assignment 2: 10%
(released week 5, due end week 9)
- Assignment 3: 8%
(released week 9, due end week 12)
- Examinations 60%
- Mid-semester exam: 20%
- This is a 1 hour written exam, to be held during
a lecture slot.
The two questions of this exam will be
independently redeemable in the final exam. That is, the final exam
will have an extra two optional questions of the same weight and
content as in the MSE. For either of these questions,
if the mark scored
exceeds that of the corresponding question scored in the orignal MSE,
that mark will be used to compute the final score for the MSE.
An extra hour's time will be given in the final exam
to accomodate this.
- Final examination: 40%
- This will be a 2+1 hour written exam held at the end of semester during
the normal examination period.
One A4 page of notes (both sides, printed or hand written)
is permitted; a calculator is not permitted.
These components are then added to give your final mark. This may then
be scaled to give your overall course mark and grade. In particular, the
final marks may be moderated by the Department of Computer Science
examiners meeting.
Notes:
- Any changes to the assessment scheme will be announced and
discussed in lectures and posted to this web page.
- If there are no changes to the proposed scheme by the end of week 2,
it will be the scheme that will be used.
- The Tute/Lab mark will be calculated as follows. There will be
7 assessable lab exercises worth 1% each; the best 5 of these
will be summed (total of 5%). The best 5 out of a selection of 7
Tute/Lab participation marks
will be summed (and divided by 3, total of 5%).
These will be cacluated mainly on the basis of effort
(including preparation, attendance, and participation in discussions)
TuteLab02 will be excluded from the selection (purely a lab exercise),
as will one towards the end of the semester.
Extensions and Late Penalties for Assignments
In general, there will be no extensions for assignments, the exception
being for illness serious enough to keep you in bed, supported by a
medical certificate. Other similarly un-foreseeable and serious
circumstances may be considered (if similarly verified). Work and
sporting commitments are not normally sufficient grounds. If you think
you have grounds for an extension, you should notify the course
coordinator as soon as possible and provide written evidence in
support of your case (e.g. medical certificate).
The course coordinator
will then decide whether to grant and extension and inform you as soon
as practicable.
Extensions may
be granted to a date that is not more than 1 week from the nominal
deadline.
Without an explicit extension from the course co-ordinator, late
assignments will be penalised at the rate specified on the assignment
document.
Plagiarism and Assisting Plagiarism
in Assignments
You should read the chapter in the Department of Computer Science
Student Handbook that discusses assessment (Chapter 6, pages
17-25), particularly the sections headed Misconduct in
examinations (which also applies to assignments and other forms
of assessment) and Guidelines for assignments.
Files you have found on the Internet should not be submitted as
your work; but your documents may include URL links to external
documents. You should avoid copying or closely paraphrasing material
from documents that you find, including those of your friends (it's
plagiarism) or textbooks. If you feel it necessary to include
material from some other document, then it should be clearly
identified as such, identifiable as quoted material by layout or
quotation marks, and proper attribution made. Be aware that automated
tools to detect plagiarism exist (e.g.
Glatt or
JPlag ) and will be
used.
All assignment submissions will be compared electronically, with any
that are suspiciously similar being investigated by the lecturer. If
such similarities cannot be satisfactorily explained, appropriate action
(see the penalties mentioned in the handbook) will be taken. Note that
the action of providing access to another student access to an
assignment may result in the offense of assisting plagiarism,
and similar penalties (i.e. partial or complete loss of marks) may apply.
Don't take such risks!
Collecting Marked Work and Remark Policy
Marked assessment can be collected from your tutorial/laboratory
classes, generally 2 weeks after its hand-in date. Uncollected
assessment will be kept by your tutor until the end of semester, after
which uncollected work may be collected from a yet-to-be-specfiied place
in the CSIT Building.
You can check the marks we have recorded for you progressively
throughout the semester. You can do this through StReaMS
From the date that your assignment marks are released electronically,
you have a period of two weeks in which to question your mark. After
this period your mark will be final. Release of your assignment marks
will be announced on the course Annoucement forum.
If you are unhappy about the marking of an assignment, first discuss
this with your tutor. If you were unable to resolve this with your
tutor, the matter can be brought up with the course co-ordinator, who
will discuss the matter with you. If, after that, you request a
remark, the policy is as follows:
-
The disputed assignment will be remarked in its entirety by a different
tutor. No extra material or explanations may be supplied by the student
for the remark.
- The remarking will be done in a time frame convenient to the DCS.
- The new mark will be final, and may be lower or higher than, or the same as, the original mark.
Special Consideration and Special / Supplementary Exams
If you miss the examination, or wish to request a Special Examination or
Special Consideration for an examination, please see
Carol Edmondson's page on the subject. From there, there are links
to on-line forms (these include a section to be filled out by a medical
practitioner, where medical reasons are the grounds for the
application).
If you are feeling unwell on the day of an examination, you can consider
taking the exam and then applying for Special Consideration. Note that
it normally takes fairly severe symptoms before your performance will be
significantly affected (and that only for a sufficiently serious
condition will a Special Examination be granted, should you decide not
to take the exam then).
Supplementary exams will be awarded to all students who receive a PX grade
(i.e. have a final mark of AT LEAST 45/100 but less than 50/100), and only
to those students.
Students who receive a PX grade will be notified
by the DCS Office of the time and place of the Supplementary Exam
as soon as that is decided (likely to be the 1st week of semester 2)
-- ignore any messages from ISIS that you need to contact the lecturer first.
The Supp Exam will have the same format and
same conditions (i.e. what you can take with you) as the main exam.
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