Thurs, 26 Oct 2023, 22:35 Grading the Programming Labs

  My students,

  I noticed this week that some grades on Programming Lab 1 reflect a simple sloppy mistake resulting in 
  far too great a penalty, and in fact the student did understand the concepts being tested.  I thought we 
  had corrected that grading problem before this semester started, but clearly we hadn't.  I don't like it, so 
  I am proposing the following:

  When you get your grade for the Programming lab, first check the assignment and your errors to be sure 
  where points were deducted.  If you believe your grade reflects harsh grading well beyond the nature of 
  your error, I am willing to see if your grade should be adjusted up.

  The process is as follows.  If you believe you were penalized too severly due to a careless error, the 
  procedure is to correct the sloppiness (and ONLY correct the sloppiness) and resubmit the program for 
  grading. In addition, please give Sophia a copy of the resubmission, a short description of the sloppiness 
  that your resubmission corrected, and the instructions that you changed.  If I agree that your changes 
  correct an error that was due to carelessness, I will assign a higher grade.

  Please be careful to ONLY correct errors due to sloppiness.  If you correct anything other than an error 
  due to sloppiness, your grade will not be adjusted up.

  I recognize that by my doing this, some students may try to take advantage of the situation and use it to 
  grub for points.  Please do not do this. If I think the error is not sloppiness but something substantive, I 
  am likely to adjust your grade downward.

  Any questions about this, please let me know.

  YNP