There will be four regularly scheduled examinations (September 15, October 13, November 10 and December 11). Each examination will cover the assigned reading and topical material up to the date of the examination. The examinations will consist of 30 True/False, Multiple Choice items and 8 short answer items. It is my policy to allow a 'cheat sheet' at each examination. You may bring to the examination notes, cues on a single standard sheet of paper, both sides. You will find a list of short answer questions on the Web site from which I will select 8 to appear on the exam as links from the syllabus. You may use a 'cheat sheet' for the short answer items.
Examinations will be given during class on Friday. If you must miss an examination for any reason, please be sure to talk with me about it or send Email to me and make sure that I have acknowledged your request. The final examination will be Monday, December 11 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Please note that this is a two hour period.
The four examinations taken together will account for 2/3rds of your total grade. The individual examinations will be weighted equally within this group.
You may use any material or source of your choosing to answer the short answer questions. Please think through your answers carefully. When you use references, follow the guidelines set forth in Electronic Sources: APA Style of Citation or A Guide for Writing Research Papers.
If you do poorly on any one of the first three examinations you may prepare a paper on a topic chosen from the optional paper topic list. Papers will be due at class time, Wednesday, November 22, 2000. No papers will be accepted after that date and time for any reason. Anyone may write an optional paper. It must be of outstanding quality if it is to improve your grade for the semester. For details on how the paper is to be written see the optional paper topic list
In addition to the four examinations there will be twelve quizzes (one for every week in which there is not an examination). Quizzes will cover only the material of the immediately preceding week.
Quizzes will have form similar to that of the examinations, but the number of items will only be 10. Each quiz will count 10 points, all quizzes taken as a group will count for 1/6th of your grade.
Quizzes will be evaluated and returned to you the next week.
As with exams, the quizzes will be each Friday of the week they are assigned, except for the week of Thanksgiving, that quiz will be given on Wednesday.
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