Stopien Wykładu/Pracowni
(en) proposal
At the moment, this is still experimental, and all feedback from students and faculty is welcome. Just add your comments on this page if they are short, or make a new page if they are long.
What is a fair method to decide on grades?
Students have two options: wiki goals or oral exam
oral exam
Students who prefer to have an oral exam (common in UMK) may choose this. This is (necessarily) subjective, even though the lecturer makes his/her best attempt at being objective. Since there is no audio recording, any later disagreements regarding unfair assessment would be very difficult to correct. However, the student has the right to choose this (standard) method.
wiki goals
Each student writes 5 goals (aims) on his/her
TWikiUsers page, for example (these are only
examples, you may add other examples you think are appropriate).
- learn to use the octave software
- write a subroutine for an astronomical formula which is not yet in http://www.octave.org
- get a new astronomical formula accepted for the octave distribution
- translate some octave documentation to po polsku
- learn to use and modify some other package of astronomical software
- on the http://pl.wikipedia.org write/translate a page on an astronomical subject and put a link to free software (in the sense of http://www.gnu.org)
- these pages should include physical quantities and algebraic or calculus expressions as appropriate: physics without intuition is boring and maybe wrong, but intuition without clearly defined symbolic, mathematical expressions is not physics
- DysksusjaCzyPotrzebaBycWyrazenieSymboliczne
The principle is self-assessment. So each student writes a comment like "done" when the
goal is achieved. If 5 goals are done, then that's a grade of 5.
We will retain some dictatorship. The lecturer (
BoudRoukema) has the right to make
constructive criticism of the goals, and, theoretically, may veto a goal, but must do
this publicly, i.e. on the student's zwicky page.
It might (in fact almost certainly! will) happen that some goals are too difficult, some are too easy,
so you might want to change them. It's probably reasonable that some points become a description of
what you have done instead of
what you planned to do, and also that
a big task is subdivided into small tasks. The important thing is whether you have learnt something related to the aim of the course: mathematical methods in astronomy.
The 2004 course is shared between
BoudRoukema and Michał Hanasz, so students only need
two and a half points for the stopień from Boud.
Since most students wish to learn
WikipediaPl:OTW, it would be reasonable that the points relate to understanding
WikipediaPl:OTW.
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