Grades are necessary. We are used to giving and getting grades. At CROSU/NetMath we do not like to focus on the grade, however, because the learning is really more important. Grading in this class will be different from what you are used to. Your mentor will be grading your GIAT modules and Litsheets. You may get a letter grade, or you may get a comment grade. A comment grade would be something like "Excellent" or "Needs Work." Keep in mind that we judge grades on several factors other than your homework. Part of your grade depends on how well you communicate, and how well we feel you have learned the material. Your final grade for the course will be decided based upon input from your mentor, your homework, quiz and final grades, and Tony.
You will receive OSU credit through the OSU Academy as well as high school credit for this course. Your OSU instructor will give you a grade when you have finished the work that is equivalent to a quarter of calculus at OSU. You will receive these grades when you finish your OSU course work, not at the end of your high school grading period.
If you are just starting calculus, your goal is to finish the work for OSU Math 151C (5 credit hours) by the end of January. Most CROSU high school students also opt to finish half of Math 152, usually by the end of April (credit hours to be negotiated.) Students entering CROSU having previous calculus classes will make arrangements individually with the program directors.
Since you will not be graded at the end of your school grading periods, your coordinator will decide what to do about your grade for your school report card. The OSU instructor can not give this grade, since he is not certified by the State of Ohio to award high school credit. You probably care if this grade affects your GPA, so you and your coordinator need to agree on a solution that works for you and your situation.
GRADING SCALE:
| Scale I use: | A = 90% | A- = 88% | B+ = 86% |
| B = 80% | B- = 78% | C+ = 76% | |
| C = 70% | C- = 68% | D+ = 66% | |
| D = 60% |
There is no curve...you get what you earn. Borderline cases are decided by such things as your final exam score, your communication score, and whether you have fixed your quizzes or not. That list is not exhaustive, but it is indicative.
HOW YOUR GRADE IS MADE:
10% of your grade is based on your communication and participation. This is not a very "fuzzy" 10%, by the way...you are supposed to email your mentor every day you are in school, and email me once a week. It is easy to keep track of when you do not do this. Notice that 10% represents a full letter grade on the scale I use. The other 90% is calculated in the following way:
There was/is a second way to compute the grade, and I take the better of the two ways. Way One is already on the page. Way Two is similar but uses 25% for Homework, 25% for Quizzes and Tests, and 40% for the Final Exam.
Homework means complete and corrected Litsheets and GIATs, and fixed quizzes.
REMINDER: Quiz fixes are homework assignments, and do not change the quiz grade. Quiz fixes do, however, count as much as a litsheet or GIAT.