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30% RULE

No more than 30% of the final grade in any course may be based on

 

the final examination or any assignment or test within that course.

The purpose of the policy is to get away from total dependence on
a final examination. This policy should also discourage cramming,

since no one test or assignment could affect the grade significantly.

FIVE FACTOR RULE

The final grade in a course should comprise five separate evaluations.

 

This could be any combination of tests, examinations, or assignments.
It may include things such as seminar participation and attendance
if these are included in the course outline. While there are five
factors required, more than one of them may be assigned to a given
area such as a major term paper: a grade may be given for an out-
line of the term paper, another grade may be given for the biblio-
graphy or footnoting and yet another grade may be given for the term
paper as a whole. This does not defeat the rule, since the student
has several opportunities to get back on track. If there are five
factors required, it is difficult to have any one factor worth more

than 30% without seriously unbalancing the grading for that course.

FINAL EXAM WEEK
A five day period is set aside at the end of each semester for each

course which has a final examination.

 

This ensures that the students do not have conflicts because exam-
inations may take more than the two hours normally allocated to

each class. The exam schedule is posted and the students have an

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