Anna PryslopskaDoes anyone else get emotional when they have to fail a student in their course? 😢
Shravan Vasishth@anna_pryslopska There was a really interesting article that a Cambridge prof, David MacKay, wrote about grading: https://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/exams.pdf
@ShravanVasishth I admit that having to turn in weekly assignments is a lot for many students. Perhaps splitting the course in two would have been better. There's nothing I can do about grading, though. That's out of my hands. Pass/fail would be so much better in my opinion.
@anna_pryslopska I have a policy that if the student makes an honest attempt (I define what that means in the course description), I give 100% regardless of whether they got it right or not. But they have to attempt all questions.
Tatjana Scheffler@ShravanVasishth @anna_pryslopska I would be really interested in seeing how you define "honest attempt". This seems like a very useful policy.
@tschfflr @anna_pryslopska From my moodle page, Part 1/2
Completing a homework assignment means that you have to make an honest attempt to answer every question given; it doesn't matter if your answer is correct or not, but you have to answer the question given.
@tschfflr @anna_pryslopska Part 2/2:
An answer does *not* count as complete if you answer some *other* random question, or if you copy out the question. Making an honest attempt at answers does not mean that you just *thought* about answering the question, but couldn't and so you submit an empty homework submission. An attempt counts as an honest attempt only if you actually attempt to answer the question given, and write some relevant code that attempts to answer the question.