Brief description of what each variable represents:

ATTEND1 - ATTEND10 = attendance in discussion sections. 0 if absent, 1 if present.

HW1 and HW2 = grade on the two homework assignments

QUIZ1 - QUIZ8 = grade on the 8 quizzes (note: if you did the weather extra credit, I took your lowest quiz grade and made it a 100 %)

WARGRADE = your grade on the Iraq conflict paper. An "A" was worth 100%, a "B" worth 89%, and a "C" worth 79%. If you didn't turn in a paper, you received an "F", which translates to 0%.

ONLINE = your grade for the on-line longitudinal assignment. Although there were opportunities to participate more than 10 times, I graded this as if there were 10 occasions during which you could have participated. If you did it 10 times, you received a 100%. If you completed the on-line questionnaire 4 times, you received a 40%.

As stated in class, it was important that you use the same alias each time you participate in order to receive credit. I noticed some typos in the way people entered their alias in the database, and I tried to correct as many as I possibly could. If you think there is a discrepancy between what you see here and the number of times you believe you participated, you will need to do the following: (a) log back onto the exercise (the link is listed in the updates section of our class webpage), (b) print the page that lists your web participation, (c) bring that print out to me during the final exam. I will double check the records and allocate you the appropriate credit if there is in fact a discrepancy between the reported credit and what the log-in page shows.

TEST1 - TEST4 = your grade on each of the 4 tests.

GRADE = your current grade in this course--assuming you don't take the final. Recall that, if you take the final, your 4 highest of the 5 exams will count (i.e., your lowest exam score of the 5 will be dropped).

GRADE was computed in the following manner

.60*mean(test1,test2,test3,test4) +
.15*mean(quiz1,quiz2,quiz3,quiz4,quiz5,quiz6,quiz7,quiz8) +
.05*wargrade +
.10*mean(attend1,attend2,attend3,attend4,attend5,attend6,attend7,attend8,attend9,atten10,hw1,hw2) +
.10*online

In other words, the average of your four exams counts toward 60% of your grade. As discussed in class on April 9th, your average quiz grade accounts for 15% of your grade and war paper counts toward 5% of your grade. (The war paper and the quiz grades, taken together, account for 20% of your grade, with the war paper counting as 1/4 of this 20% chunk.) Your section activities (i.e., attendence and homeworks) account for 10% of your grade and the online questionnaire exercise counted toward 10% of your grade (as discussed in the March 10th lecture).

If you are happy with your GRADE, there is no reason to take the final exam. Letter grades will be assigned using the traditional 10% system (i.e., A = .90-1.00, B = .80 - .89, C = .70 - .79, D = .60 - .69, F = 0 - .59).

If you see an error in the way your grades are reported here, please let your TA know as soon as possible.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The numbers that you see in the spread sheet are rounded to two decimal places. In many cases, however, your actual grade may be slightly different from what you see. For example, if your true exam score for exam 2 is a .84443, you might see .84 instead of .84443. You final GRADE is based on the true number, not the rounded number. Thus, if you calculate your grade by hand, the GRADE you get may be slightly different (either slightly higher or slightly lower) from the one that is printed here. The GRADE you see is your *real* grade. I will be rounding these grades up by 1% point when I submit the final grades.

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