The scale for each assignment or exam below is created after the assignment or exam is graded. These are the cutoffs that will inserted into the announced grading formulas to determine the "raw score" cutoffs for final grades.The cutoffs given below are the bottom for the "flat" grade, not the minus grade. (For example, if the cutoff listed for a B is 50 points, then 50 is a B and 49 is a B-). The A- cutoff is 1/3 of the way down from the A cutoff to the B cutoff, the B+ cutoff is 1/3 of the way up from the B cutoff to the A cutoff, the B- cutoff is 1/3 of the way down from the B cutoff to the C cutoff, etc. (except that I do not give D-'s; anything lower than the D cutoff is an E).
A cutoff like "17.5" in a grade-scale does not mean that any half-points were given to any student on the corresponding assignment or exam; it simply means that I thought 18 was too high for the cutoff and 17 was too low.
Each average and median below was computed from the scores of only those students who turned in that assignment without a lateness penalty, or took that exam.
Homework
Scores (and cutoffs) for the different assignments are simply added together at the end of the semester. Example: if there are only two homework assignments, worth 60 points and 80 points respectively, and the "A" cutoffs are 50 and 70 respectively, then the "A" cutoff for the homework component of the final grade is 120 out of a possible 140. (The homework component is then weighted according to the percentages given in the syllabus.) A student earning 55 points on each of the two homeworks would have the same homework grade as a student earning 30 points on the first assignment and 80 points on the second.
A B C D class average Assignment 1 (40 points) 30.5
(76%)23
(58%)15.5
(39%)9
(23%)16.2
(40%)Assignment 2 (30 points) 23
(77%)17.5
(58%)11.5
(38%)6
(20%)16.3
(54%)Assignment 3 (31 points) 21.5
(69%)15.5
(50%)9
(29%)4.5
(15%)15.6
(50%)Assignment 4 (46 points) 31.5
(68%)24
(52%)14.5
(32%)9
(20%)16.2
(35%)Assignment 5 (45 points) 36.5
(81%)27.5
(61%)18.5
(41%)9.5
(21%)26.5
(59%)Assignment 6 (47 points) 34.5
(73%)26
(55%)15
(32%)7.5
(16%)26.3
(56%)Homework totals (239 points to date) 177.5
(74%)133.5
(56%)84
(35%)45.5
(19%)
122 (51%) (with students who've
dropped class removed
from computation,
but without averaging-in
the 0's for assignments
that some still-enrolled
students never handed in.)
Midterm Exams
A B C D class median class average Exam 1 (115 points) 95
(83%)76
(66%)49
(43%)30
(26%)54.5
(47%)51
(44%)list of scores
Final Exam (127 points)
A B C D class median class average Final Exam (127 points) 107.5
(85%)86.5
(68%)57
(45%)32
(25%)48
(38%)54
(43%)list of scores
Distribution of final grades for course
A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D E Number of students receiving grade 0 2 0 1 2 0 4 1 1 0 3 The class GPA was 1.91. This average includes the E's for two "anomalously still-registered" students who were still on the roster at the end of the semester, both of whom had stopped coming to class and handing in work (and one of whom did not show up for the final exam). Not counting these two students, the class GPA was 2.22. The class GPA for the last MAA 4212 section I taught (Spring 2014) was 3.14. (There were no "anomalously still-registered" students at the end of that semester.) Most of the 13 students in that section had taken MAA 4211 from me in the fall; this year, the only students who'd taken MAA 4211 from me were two who'd taken it this past fall (2016) and one who'd taken it in fall 2014.