Grading

Course grades will be given using the standard six-level grading scale from 0 to 5. Course grade will be based on 1) the weekly exercises and 2) the final poster.

The final grade is based 40 % on the final poster assignment and 60 % on weekly exercise submissions.

Note

Please submit your exercise reports on time

Generally, weekly exercises are due in one week’s time (before the exercise session in the following week of exercise assignment). Please let the instructors know before the deadline if you anticipate you will not be able to submit on time.

Grading criteria

Criteria for the exercises:

• does the code work as instructed?

• is the style of the code following good programming practices?

• does the written assignment answer to the questions?

• is there dialogue with relevant literature / course materials?

• does the student use “own thinking” and reflect the learnings e.g. to own experiences or other ideas

• fluency / clarity of the text

• appropriate citation practices used

Criteria for the group work / poster:

• is there a general description about the research problem (research questions)?

• are all results (maps, graphs etc.) presented/discussed clearly?

• are the research findings interpreted appropriately, including limitations?

• is there dialogue with relevant literature?

• fluency / clarity of the text

• appropriate citation practices used

• is the analysis / programming done appropriately? (no bugs + follows good coding practices)

• quality of the presentation (is the poster clearly presented, staying on time, etc.)

Preliminary grading thresholds:

• 5 –> 90 % or more of the points received

• 4 –> 80 % or more of the points received

• 3 –> 70 % or more of the points received

• 2 –> 60 % or more of the points received

• 1 –> 50 % or more of the points received