ECE 302 Probabilistic Methods In
Electrical And Computer Engineering
Semester-wise Grading Policies
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Midterm exam make-up policy |
HW late submission policy |
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Academic dishonesty policy |
Initial course participation policy |
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o Attendance will not be used in anyway in this course.
o Homework plus projects 10%; Midterm 50%; and Final Exam: 40%
o The score of the lowest midterm exams will be dropped. The other two will count for 25% and 25% each. For example, Aaron got 80, 70, 85 for midterms 1 to 3, respectively. Then only midterms 1 and 3 will be used for Aaron's grade. Bill got 70, 72, 62 for midterms 1 to 3, respectively. Then only midterms 1 and 2 will be used for Bills' grade.
o The rationale behind the midterm exam score drop policy.
o ECE302 uses the traditional letter grade system, not the plus/minus system. The grades will be given centrally for all sections.
o Past grade statistics: The student grades are assigned independently for each semester. In the previous offerings roughly 25% of the entire class got A, 25% of the entire class got B, 25% of the entire class got C, and 15% of the entire class got D. The average GPA was around 2.45.
o In general, no make-up exam will be given since one score of your midterms is dropped. Only under exceptional conditions will an oral 15-min make-up exam or some other make-up methods be given. In particular, it usually requires having two separate incidents and missing two midterm exams in one semester. It also requires an official email/letter from the students’ academic advisor explaining the situation, and then it will be evaluated and decided independently by the faculty member. In the past, students generally felt that an oral make-up exam was much harder than the written exam due to the nature of the oral exam.
o The rationale behind the midterm exam score drop policy.
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Homework
late submission policy
o In Gradescope, each homework will be given a submission window of two weeks.
o For example, HW1 is due on 1/19. If a student Catherine submitted her homework by 1/19, then the status of her homework submission will be normal.
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Catherine can continue submitting HW1 after 1/19
for another 2 weeks, until 2/02 but the status will be “late submission”
instead.
(In Gradescope, you can continuously update/change your submission before the
deadline, say 1/19 in this example. However, any update/change after 1/19 will lead the entire HW
submission to be marked as “late submission” even though you only change a
small part of it. As a result, the entire HW will be subject to the
late-submission penalty, see the policy below. Our suggestion is thus
that do not make any change of the HW submission after the deadline.)
o For any late submission, each additional day will incur a penalty of 3%. For example, if Catherine submitted her homework on 9/07, which is 6 days late, then her HW1 score will have a penalty of 3% * 6=18%. That is, whatever her score is, it will be multiplied by 0.82 due to late submission.
o If she submitted in the very last day (14-th day), then her score will be multiplied by 0.58 = 1-0.03*14. That is, she can still get about 58% of the score if her answers are correct.
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The late-submission
penalty will not be displayed in either Brightspace or Gradescope. They will be applied in the very end of the
semester when calculating the letter grade.
o This policy is to encourage students to submit their homework on time but also recognize that students can sometimes be overwhelmed with work and other unexpected conditions during the pandemic. So being a bit late, say one or two days, would still give you 94-97% of the overall score. Even being one week late would still give you the majority (79%) of the overall score.
o However, under the current policy, no homework can be submitted once it is over 14-day late. We want to encourage students to submit the homework within a reasonable time window of the original due date. Being more than 14-day late is really quite late and we will not accept the HW then.
o Unfortunately, there is a hard homework submission deadline for the end of the semester: Sunday 12/3/2023 11:59pm. We do not accept any homework after this hard deadline. The reason is that we need to submit the overall grade to Purdue in the end of the semester and we cannot afford to continue waiting for students’ homework submission in the end of the semester. Also, the latest Purdue policy is that no graded assignment can be due for the last week of the lectures. Therefore, we have a hard deadline as indicated above.
o At the instructor's discretion, cheating on an assignment or examination will result in a reduced score, a zero score, or a failing grade for the course. Please see the syllabus for detailed description.
· Initial Course Participation (ICP)
o Your scores of the MT1 and the first 3 HW will be recorded in Brightspace and they will also be used as the main metric for reporting Initial Course Participation (ICP). If ICP is critical to your financial aids, make sure you take MT1 and turn in the first few homework assignments.