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Bill Cowan, [wW][mM][cC][oO][wW][aA][nN]@cgl.uwaterloo.ca, DC2111, x34527.
Please Note. The assignments in this course are cumulative. Therefore it is important that I manage the course so that almost all students succeed on almost every assignment. This suits me just fine: students learn a lot from doing an assignment on which they succeed or almost succeed. But this causes a problem: assignment and project marks don't vary a lot, even though it is quite obvious, to you and to me, that some students have achieved quite a bit more than other students. My solution to this problem is to give a take-home examination with relatively open-ended questions, and to mark it in the European style, that uses the entire range of marks, so that a passing mark is about 5 out of 30, with marks spread out up to almost thirty based on students gong beyond routine answers to the questions.. Based on several terms of experience this solution has two extremely important properties.
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