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Tips for productive office hours
- Prepare for office hours and have screenshots, your screen with code ready to share, your student VM up and running.
- Expect to have ~5 mins with the TA if other students are waiting.
- Do not expect TAs to debug your code or be able to interpret poorly-structured code. This is graduate-level class, and it is our expectation that you will write your own tests, experiment with approaches, and debug your code.
Regrade Requests
We work hard to grade exams and other things consistently and correctly for all students. If concerned about the points you received for any given question, please carefully re-read the question and the sample solution. The class policy does allow (and describe the process) for regrade requests, but such requests should be submitted if you believe that an error was made in grading your exam. BEFORE submitting such a request, consider these questions and make sure you’re your request addresses them. Historically, we find that few regrade requests result in changes, because the original grading was consistent with expectations and the rubrics applied to the entire class.- Do the words I wrote, as I wrote them, provide the answer for which I am arguing? We can only assign points for what was written in the answer, not what may have been intended. In some prior years, regrade requests from students offered detailed explanations of what they meant to say, even if that is not clearly indicated in the text they actually wrote. When important clarity or assumptions are left out of a written answer, the grader can not fill in the gaps with their own knowledge... they must grade the answer given as written.
- Does your written answer specifically address the question asked? We do not award points for simply mentioning facts about the question’s topic, even if some of those facts may also be part of a correct answer (e.g., as reflected in the sample solution). Full points are awarded for an answer that is clear, complete, and accurately responsive to the question asked. If the answer does not go beyond listing the generic information, by applying the information to the specific question asked, it will not receive full points.
- Does your written answer include some correct and some incorrect information? Answers that include some correct information and some incorrect information will not receive full credit; for example, 2 correct and 1 incorrect might average out to 2/3 correct. A regrade request should not highlight one aspect of an answer and ignore flaws with the answer as a whole.
- Does your written answer provide clear explanation? An answer that mentions the right aspect(s), but then does not provide clear explanations of how they apply to the specific question asked will not receive full credit.
- Was your correct answer marked incorrect or do you just disagree with the amount of partial credit? We try hard to make partial credit assignment consistent across the (large) class. In some cases, you may feel like you should receive more points for a particular incorrect answer, but we are not going to change the point assignments for a single person to be different than was the case for all.
Last updated: 2024-01-17 11:58:08 -0500