= 10.0 points Lab well done, neatly
presented, correct or accurate.You are expected to attend each lab section. Permission to make up a laboratory only will be granted for significant reasons: participation in varsity athletic games, or meets (NOT practices), illness on the day of your regular lab, etc. Permission will NOT be granted for trivial reasons, including lack of planning, hangovers, exams or papers due the next day, necessity to catch a ride home for the weekend, skiing, etc. In general you can expect that I will grant permission for temporary lab changes for those reasons that are recognized as justifiable excuses for missing classes altogether. However, any labs to be made up must be done soon after the regularly scheduled lab period and within the next week.
Lab exercises must be turned in at the end of each lab period, unless announced otherwise. Late labs will not be accepted unless permission is granted by the instructor in advance. Labs turned in late without permission obtained in advance will be returned ungraded and no credit will be given. It is in your best interest to attend lab and turn in the assignment for each lab session. Excused lab absences will be accepted only within seven calendar days (holidays and weekends included).
You cannot be urged too strongly to attend all field trips as they are scheduled, because these are by far the most difficult labs to make up. Any field trips you miss and wish to make up must be done on your own time and at your own expense. The one-week time limit for excused absences applies to the field trips as well. To obtain full credit for labs and field trips attendance is mandatory.
Grading on labs will follow the format below:
= 10.0 points Lab well done, neatly
presented, correct or accurate.
PLUS (+) = 8.5
points
Lab
OK, some
mistakes, possibly sloppy presentation.
= 7.0 points Lab completed with a
number of
mistakes, possibly incomplete or incomprehensible.
MINUS (-) = 6.0
points
I recognize that you made an effort, but there's little here that
indicates you understand what was going on.
Although this may appear to be a harsh, cut-and-dried approach, please understand that I am trying to lay out the ground rules in advance so you know what is expected and I won't have to make up rules as we go. At the same time, I am trying to avoid as much chaos as possible from my point of view; it is simply impossible to try to run a class with as many individual schedules as there are students. If any problems or questions arise please feel free to come and discuss them with me.