Attendance:
Attendance sheets will be passed around and the student is responsible to sign to prove his presence for that sessions. This is to monitor whether absences incurred by the student are still within the allowed number of absences for a course stipulated in the Student Handbook. The only valid excuses for missing exam are illness requiring medical care or a personal/family emergency of a serious nature. For such, valid medical certificate and parent’s/guardian’s letter will be required and subjected to verification.
Cooperative Learning:
The goal is to have everyone learn more than they would have working alone. Nevertheless, individual work provides the foundation for productive and synergistic group work. Teams will be formed, with three or four students per team. These will be used in two ways. First, in-class discussion and reporting on assignments will be by group (whenever possible). Second, problem set assignments will be group activities but the submission of assignment outputs will be done individually. Presentation of output will be done on a rotation basis. All students will evaluate themselves and their fellow group members with respect to contributions to group function at least twice during the semester. This evaluation will contribute to the class standing portion of the course grade and will be used primarily in deciding borderline grades.
Academic Honesty Policy:
It is a part of your education to learn responsibility and self-discipline, particularly with regards to academic honesty. The most important issue of academic honesty is cheating. Cheating is defined to include an attempt to defraud, deceive, or mislead the instructor in arriving at an honest grade assessment. Plagiarism is a form of cheating that involves presenting as one’s own work the ideas or work of another.
All portions of any test, project, or final exam submitted by you for a grade must be your own work, unless you are instructed to work collaboratively. Specific requirements will be described for collaborative projects, but all work presented must be the work of members of that group. Research materials used must be properly cited. Cheating in a major course examination by a student will entail a failing mark of F for the given course. Cheating, dishonesty or plagiarism in papers and other works will entail zero (0) score for the said requirement.
