To receive full 5 marks allocated for participation, meet the criteria A, B, and C.
A Earn at least half of weekly participation points in at least 10 weeks.
- In-lecture quiz:
- Answered at least 80% of the questions correctly: 2 points
- Answered 40-80% questions correctly: 1 point
- Post-lecture quiz:
- Answered at least 80% of the questions correctly: 3 points
- Answered 60-80% questions correctly: 2 points
- Answered 40-60% questions correctly: 1 point
- Missing compulsory administrative requirements e.g., forgot to submit peer evaluations: -2 for each miss
As the lecture on Week N covers topics for Week N+1, the Lecture N's in-lecture and post-lecture quiz points are counted for
Week N+1
B Received
In addition, you can receive a bonus marks in the following ways. Bonus marks can be used to top up your participation marks should your marks from the above falls below 5.
- Receiving good ratings for all 10 peer evaluations criteria: 1 mark
- Being very helpful to classmates e.g., multiple helpful posts in forum: 1 mark
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Peer evaluation criteria: professional conduct
- Professional Communication :
- Communicates sufficiently and professionally. e.g. Does not use offensive language or excessive slang in project communications.
- Responds to communication from team members in a timely manner (e.g. within 24 hours).
- Punctuality: Does not cause others to waste time or slow down project progress by frequent tardiness.
- Dependability: Promises what can be done, and delivers what was promised.
- Effort: Puts in sufficient effort to, and tries their best to keep up with the module/project pace. Seeks help from others when necessary.
- Quality: Does not deliver work products that seem to be below the student's competence level i.e. tries their best to make the work product as high quality as possible within her competency level.
- Meticulousness:
- Rarely overlooks submission requirements.
- Rarely misses compulsory module activities such as pre-module survey.
- Teamwork: How willing are you to act as part of a team, contribute to team-level tasks, adhere to team decisions, etc. Honors all collectively agreed-upon commitments e.g., weekly project meetings.
Peer evaluation criteria: competency
- Technical Competency: Able to gain competency in all the required tools and techniques.
- Mentoring skills: Helps others when possible. Able to mentor others well.
- Communication skills: Able to communicate (written and spoken) well. Takes initiative in discussions.
C Tutorial attendance/participation not too low
Low attendance/participation can affect participation marks directly (i.e., attended fewer than 7) or indirectly (i.e., it might result in low peer evaluation ratings).
Examples:
- Alicia earned 1/2, 3/5, 2/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 5/5, 4/5, 5/5 in the first 12 weeks. As she received at least half of the points in 11 of the weeks, she gets 5 participation marks. Bonus marks are not applicable as she has full marks already.
- Benjamin managed to get at least half of the participation points in 9 weeks only, which gives him 5-1 = 4 participation marks. But he received good peer ratings for all criteria, and hence get a bonus mark to make it 5/5.
- Chun Ming met the participation points bar in 8 weeks only, giving him 5-2 = 3 marks. He lost 2 more marks because he received multiple negative ratings for two criteria, giving him 1/5 participation marks.
Participation marks are available in this page.
- The important column is the Weeks Count column. It tells you how many weeks you have met the bar for the criterion A). Your target is to hit 10 weeks.
- Participation of a week is usually calculated based on two quizzes. For example, week 4 score is calculated based on,
W4-Q1: previous week's (i.e., lecture 3) in-lecture quizW4-Q2: previous week's (i.e., lecture 3) post-lecture quiz
- Participation bar for weeks 1-3 have been simplified as follows (to account for late enrollments, LumiNUS problems etc.):
- Week 1: submitted pre-module survey or pre-lecture quiz
- Week 2: submitted at least one of the quizzes
- Week 3: did reasonably in both quizzes or did well in one of the quizzes
- Quizzes for Week 4 and thereafter are counted as explained in A above.
If you have queries about the participation marks, please email cs2103@comp.nus.edu.sg.