Eval Sessions
Quizzes
The in-class quizzes will test your completion of the assignments for last week. They will be 20 to 30 minutes long and given in class in the tutorial time slot. We will have twelve quizzes, one each week.
Typical questions will ask about your experiences while going through the assignments, and your basic understanding of concepts - what you where doing and why you were doing it. I try to make these questions easy for anyone who has completed the assignments with an active mind. It should be possible to get a perfect score on all of them. However there may be one question that requires a modicum of careful, structured thinking.
There may also be questions on the concepts and methods, especially their computational aspects. You may be asked to give your opinion on possible improvements or generalizations and to think through some "problem solving" questions. It may be useful to discuss your understanding with your classmates in person or on the mailing list.
You are welcome and encouraged to submit quiz questions to me or to the course mailing list. I always consider these carefully and often include such questions (in slightly modified fashion). It is a chance for me to better understand your background and expectations, and for you to think about the material in a structured way.
We will pick up the quiz and mark it in class.
Marking
- You will mark your own quiz.
- You must bring a black or blue pen to write the quiz.
- You must bring a red pen for marking.
- You should write down and explain the right answer to yourself. Write legibly: if I like your explanation I may count the question as correct.
- You must not make mistakes in your marking. If I find errors in my spot-checks I will mark the quiz as a zero.
Missed quizzes
You may miss as many quizzes as you want, I will initially score these as zero. For your final grade, I will record the marks of the (lower) 25% quartile of all your quizzes, to replace the zeros. You can easily figure out, since we are writing twelve quizzes, this means you will get partial marks for up to three missed quizzes. Conversely, if all your quizzes have perfect marks but you miss two, these two will be counted as perfect scores too.
