Quiz Revision submission guidelines

From the Syllabus section on Quizzes:

“If you are unsatisfied with your performance on a Quiz, you may submit a Quiz Revision. For faculty to review a Quiz Revision, the corresponding Problem Set(s) must be complete in your PSN, as determined by the weekly spot checks. Quiz Revisions are due in class the Monday after the original Quiz is administered.”

  • When are Quiz Revisions due? Quiz Revisions will be due in class the Monday after the original Quiz is administered.
  • Who should submit a Quiz Revision? Any student may submit a Quiz Revision for as many problems as you choose to revise and resubmit. You may be directed by faculty to submit a Quiz Revision. Faculty will decide to review a student’s Quiz Revision based on the completeness of the corresponding Problem Set(s) in the Problem Set Notebook at the weekly spot check. If your PSN was not complete at the time of the spot check, you may bring an updated PSN for faculty review. 
  • Quiz Revision Detailed Guidelines
    • You may utilize any resource available to you, but submitted work must reflect your own personal understanding of the material.
    • Quiz Revisions will be evaluated on a binary scale: either the revised problem is fully correct or it is not fully correct.
    • The care you take in presenting your work will be considered when evaluating it, so pay attention to organization, neatness, etc.
    • Revisions must be neat, complete, and presented in a logical, clear-to-understand fashion.
    • Since these are revisions, a higher standard will be used to evaluate your responses. Essentially, your revised solutions should be of the highest quality you can produce.
    • You may revise any problems you choose, and must present a complete solution to any problem you choose to revise (not just a part of a problem), unless otherwise indicated.
    • For multiple choice/fill-in-the-blank type questions, your revised solution should completely and clearly explain your reasoning (even if no explanation was required on the original quiz).
    • Revisions must be submitted on a new copy of the copy, or you may typeset your revision, but please include the problem statement.
    • Do not re-submit original quiz – that is for you to keep in your Portfolio.

You likely know immediately on completing the quiz and almost certainly by the end of the Quiz Workshop which problems to start revising, so you should start those Quiz Revisions as soon as you can.

The faculty plan is to return Quizzes taken on Monday by the following Wednesday or Thursday. In addition to any problem-specific feedback, we will also evaluate each problem using the following numeric codes:

  1. perfect, including clear, complete, coherent, correct solution
  2. nearly perfect, with only a few minor errors
  3. many minor or a few major mistakes, but on the right track
  4. correct start, but many major mistakes or goes off track early in process
  5. something correct or relevant written down
  6. blank, or nothing correct or relevant written down

If a problem is coded with a 0, 1, or 2, you should generally produce a revision. Often, a problem coded with a 3 should be considered for revision. Problems coded with a 4 or 5 will never require a revision.