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PSC160 INT - Memo : "Homework" Questions |
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The course is divided into four sections (see far right column of class web page). Under each section are dead links for sixteen homework worksheets. Each week, students will submit one homework worksheet to the instructor via e-mail. The links to each worksheet will generally be made "live" on Sunday evenings and the associated deadlines will be by midnight the following Friday. Each worksheet will contain questions from the text, in the order that the material appears in the text. The questions are also generally distributed so as to spread the material evenly throughout each section of the course and ensure students are reading on a regular basis. |
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Format - Your submission should contain both the questions and answers and should never be in the form of an e-mail attachment. |
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Submission - Answers should be submitted to PSC160INT@aol.com and the subject line should contain ONLY your last name. |
| Credit - The deadline for submissions will be at midnight each Friday. If your submission arrives after the deadline, I will inform you and you will receive no credit unless, upon later review, the details of the submission clearly document that the submission was made before the deadline (but "bounced" elsewhere). There is nothing you can say or send to me that will affect this decision, so there is no need to offer assistance. I make the decision on my own. You should simply be patient and confident - if you did actually send it before the deadline. If there are complications with respect to the submission of assignments via e-mail, I will simply advise you to acquire some other e-mail service. Reliable e-mail is a course prerequisite. |
| Guidelines - Before submitting assignments, students should carefully read, and habitually scan the document found here. |
| Questions - As would be the case with any test (on or off campus), students can receive an explanation of the scoring on each and every assignment by simply requesting an explanation after the scoring is complete. |
| Payoff - First, homework questions are designed to make sure that you are reading the textbook on a regular basis. There is far too much material in the text and the tests are far too demanding to "cram." Second, the material emphasized in the homework questions will be used in the creation of the tests. Indeed, there is usually a very high correlation between homework scores and test scores. As is the case with the questions in the student Study Guide, test questions will focus on the material that is highlighted in the homework questions. While you very well may see the exact question appear on a test, you should not count on it. Focus on the material not the form of the question (or associated answers). Finally, the percentage of homework questions which are answered correctly will constitute 20 percent of the overall course grade. |