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CS-1P Programming - Glasgow University - Quintin Cutts
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This excerpt from the lecture guides pack for students summarises the assessment model and criteria for completing the course. CS1P is a 20-credit module that runs throughout the year to May. The degree examination is held in May/June (with a resit in August). In addition, there is a class test in January (week 13-14) and two laboratory exams, held during the supervised lab sessions, in weeks 12 and 26. As described above, the Assignments pack contains a series of assignments to be submitted electronically during the year. To obtain the credits for CS1P you must
Adjustments will be made if, for medical or other valid reasons, you miss a lab examination or some of the laboratory sessions. Your overall grade for the course will be determined as follows:
There are a number of comments to be made about this format. Students are not being continuously summatively assessed on this course. This was a clear decision some years back to (a) reduce pressure on students during the formative phase of their learning, and (b) remove the need for us to seriously check for plagiarism. It depends on a certain level of responsbility from the students, and the 'tick' system described above aims to be just a little carrot to ensure that students are attending and completing some work. The carrot is, note, set at a very low level - although the wording is "submit a serious attempt at the assignment" in order to get the tick, in practice, it is hard to define this accurately and university rules have virtually required us to make this tick a simple measure of attendance. The laboratory examinations, described in more length in the following section, are seen exams. The students have an opportunity to prepare their solutions ahead of time, but may not bring anything into the lab when they sit the exam. The exam is we hope not a test of memory skills, because we believe the size of problem is too large for memorisation - rather we are testing coding and debugging skills. Problem solving skills are largely assessed in the written exams - the
class test and degree exams. |