RLS 111/0001--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--Tidbits Page (Spring 2012)
This page will tell you when quizzes took place and when attendance checks were conducted. Other information, such as class averages on various quizzes and exams, will also be included when indicated. For your information and edification, the text of what I call my "Clinton Speech" is being made available; a "Quiz Odds Table" also is provided. Also the "Quiz Etiquette Overhead" is posted, as well as the one dealing with "Exam Rules."
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| 1/24/12 (Class # 1): | Standing homework was explained; written homework for next time was announced; the sign-up sheet "got stuck"; the attendance check was invalidated. |
| 1/26/12 (Class # 2): | Attendance check # 1 was conducted. |
| 1/31/12 (Class # 3): | Your absent-minded instructor started too late to circulate the attendance sheet; so there was no valid attendance check. If you missed, you are "in luck." |
| 2/2/12 (Class # 4): | Quiz # 1 (class average: 79%). |
| 2/7/12 (Class # 5): | The quiz try (7/11 # 1) did not result in a quiz. Attendance check # 2 was conducted. |
| 2/9/12 (Class # 6): | Instead of a quiz, there was an announcement. Next time's quiz try will involve the numbers 7/11/6 (quiz odds: 36.1%). Attendance check # 3 was conducted. |
| 2/14/12 (Class # 7): | No quiz try--a quiz was announced for 2/23. Attendance check # 4 was conducted. |
| 2/16/12 (Class # 8): | Attendance check # 5 was conducted. |
| 2/21/12 (Class # 9): | Attendance check # 6 was conducted. |
| 2/23/12 (Class # 10): | Quiz # 2 took place. Class average: 85%. |
| 2/28/12 (Class # 11): | Attendance check # 7 was conducted. |
| 3/1/12 (Class # 12): | Attendance check # 8 was conducted. |
| 3/6/12 (Class # 13): | Attendance check # 9 was conducted. |
| 3/8/12 (Class # 14): | Midterm Exam. Class average: 78.33%. |
| 3/20/12 (Class # 15): | Attendance check # 10 was conducted. |
| 3/22/12 (Class # 16): | Attendance check # 11 was conducted. |
| 3/27/12 (Class # 17): | Attendance check # 12 was conducted. |
| 3/29/12 (Class # 18): | Quiz # 3. Class average: 93%. |
| 4/3/12 (Class # 19): | Attendance check # 13 was conducted. |
| 4/5/12 (Class # 20): | Attendance check # 14 was conducted. |
| 4/10/12 (Class # 21): | Attendance check # 15 was conducted. |
| 4/12/12 (Class # 22): | Quiz # 4. Class average: 91%. |
| 4/17/12 (Class # 23): | Attendance check # 16 was conducted. |
| 4/19/12 (Class # 24): | Attendance check # 17 was conducted. |
| 4/24/12 (Class # 25): | Attendance check # 18 was conducted. |
| 4/26/12 (Class # 26) | Attendance check # 19 was conducted. |
| 5/8/12 (FINAL) | Final Exam |
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Clinton Speech: You may or may not have heard about that newfangled computer program which can recognize handwriting. (It must be a kissing cousin of the program the FBI uses for fingerprints.) I have never used the most up-to-date version; I do not know how good it is. But I imagine it to be much more sophisticated than earlier versions. And so: If I catch anyone cheating by signing the attendance sheet for an absent friend, I will treat it as a case of a very serious forgery. The forger (that is, the student who signed the sheet, not the one in whose behalf the forgery was committed) will be referred to the student judicial system, and I can easily picture myself accompanying that referral with a recommendation that the offender be permanently expelled from the university. It clearly is not worth it for you to risk your academic future just in order to keep a friend from losing two points from his or her final score.
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| 7,11 | 1 in 4.50 | 22.2% |
| 7,11,6 | 1 in 2.77 | 36.1% |
| 7,11,6,8 | 1 in 2.00 | 50.0% |
| 7,11,6,8,5 | 1 in 1.64 | 61.1% |
| 7,11,6,8,5,9 | 1 in 1.38 | 72.2% |
| 7,11,6,8,5,9,4 | 1 in 1.24 | 80.6% |
| 7,11,6,8,5,9,4,10 | 1 in 1.13 | 88.9% |
| 7,11,6,8,5,9,4,10,3 | 1 in 1.06 | 94.4% |
| 7,11,6,8,5,9,4,10,3,12 | 1 in 1.03 | 97.2% |
| 7,11,6,8,5,9,4,10,3,12,2 | 1 in 1.00 | 100% |
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Quiz Etiquette (= Quetiquette?)
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· Quiz questions will be displayed on an overhead.
· You must copy the question(s) you are to answer. Failure to do so means a score of zero. (This is in accordance with advice I received from my lawyer Larry Lockcase from Dewey, Cheetham & Howe, who said, “Quizzes are important legal documents. A quiz without the question on it is just like a sales contract without information about what it is that you’re buying.”)
· There are two versions of the quiz. They are color-coded. You must answer the question for your quiz, or you will receive a score of “0.” (If you’re colorblind, the time to tell me is before the start of the quiz.)
· If two students with same-colored quiz blanks wind up next to each other, I must be informed right away. Failure to do so will result in a disqualification (= score of “0”) of both students involved.
· The quizzes will be collected ten minutes after the go-ahead for starting will have been given, or when everyone is done, whichever comes first.
· If you are done early, turn your quiz “backside up” and sit quietly.
· The reason for giving two or more versions of each quiz or exam is to prevent cheating. Whenever quiz and exam questions are taken from the list of study questions made available ahead of time, no attention will be paid to, “One version was easier than the other.”
· In accordance with the course syllabus, you will be disqualified from a quiz if you come after I have started dictating the quiz question(s). This applies also when the questions are displayed on an overhead. No exceptions will be made. (Being on time is important.)
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Rules for Exams (Finals and Midterms)
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If you do any of the following while in possession of an exam blank, you may (and likely will) be disqualified from the exam without the privilege of a make-up (which will, in almost all cases, result in a failing grade for the course):
Using a cell phone or another electronic device without being specifically authorized to do so by the exam proctor.
Having, in the absence of specific authorization by the exam proctor, materials other than an exam blank and a writing instrument at your desk (= within reach from where you are sitting). Whatever else you bring to the exam is to be carried to the front of the room, to be retrieved after the exam has been turned in.
Leaving the room prior to completion of the exam and without being specifically authorized to do so by the exam proctor (your exam will be confiscated, and your grade will be based on the work completed by the time you leave the room).
Failing to call to my attention immediately (i.e. before writing anything on the exam blank) that a student sitting to your immediate right or left (= no empty seat between you) has the same version of the exam (identified by color code) as you. If the exam proctor discovers that problem later, both students involved will be disqualified.
Engaging in any communication with another student without specific authorization by the exam proctor.