WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:06.880 Let's take a look at credits and grading of  the course. You can get between five and eight   00:00:06.880 --> 00:00:12.480 credits from the course. To get five credits  you have to complete the mandatory parts:   00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:17.760 We have pre-exam, we have video lectures,  we have three written assignments,   00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:23.760 one about inference, one about measurement and  one about research design and current issues.   00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:28.720 And the first data analysis assignment,  which you need to do a regression analysis. 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:31.520 Finally you need to submit a learning diary.   00:00:32.400 --> 00:00:38.240 To get more credits you can do optional  assignments. There are four optional written   00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:43.680 assignments and two optional data analysis  assignments. These are more advanced and they   00:00:43.680 --> 00:00:49.680 are more for those who really want to understand  these issues and apply them in their own research. 00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:55.600 And then we have things that are not graded:  computer classes are not graded and reflection   00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:01.200 and feedback tasks, that are short tasks, that you  do at the end of each unit. Those are not graded   00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:08.000 either. The maximum number is eight credits and  the sum of credits will be rounded down. Let's   00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:14.480 take a look at what each of these elements contain  in more detail and how they're graded. So the   00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:21.840 in-person seminars, these are for discussions so  they're not lectures. I also give you assignments 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:26.800 and group work in the seminar that facilitate  learning and understanding of the concepts   00:01:26.800 --> 00:01:33.760 that we learn during the units. I'm prepared to  go through some of the materials that I present   00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:38.000 on the videos. So i have the slides  with me but the idea is that you've   00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.960 watched the video material before the  seminar. Then you come to the seminar   00:01:42.960 --> 00:01:46.480 with your heads full of questions  and comments and then we discuss. 00:01:47.360 --> 00:01:50.640 Seminars are graded: you get a two for showing up,   00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:55.840 just coming there, not saying anything. If we are on online teaching then i   00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:01.360 require a camera on, having your  camera off is not showing up.  00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:06.880 By definition, you get a three if you ask a  question or comment something at least once.  00:02:08.320 --> 00:02:13.840 Fours and fives are reserved for those  students who participate actively. 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:19.120 So this is how your participation grade  works. And you can miss one seminar. 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:24.080 If you participate in all seminars then  i will drop the one lowest grade. 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:29.520 So only the best grades count if you  come to the all the seminars. Then   00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:34.800 there is pre-exam the pre-exam consists two  books. You don't necessarily need to study  00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:38.240 the books because I'll give you the  list of questions that i'm going to   00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:43.920 be asking in this exam or the question pool. And then you can go through the question pool   00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:50.640 and think what parts of these materials you  want to study. For example some of the parts   00:02:50.640 --> 00:02:56.240 on data analysis in Singleton & Straits are  probably not worth studying. The parts about   00:02:56.240 --> 00:03:01.200 measurement and research design are definitely  worth studying. The same with Allison's book.   00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:06.800 The questions don't cover the full book but  I'll leave it to you to decide what to read. 00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:12.640 There will be three essays and eight term  definitions. When you sign up for the pre-exam,   00:03:12.640 --> 00:03:21.520 you need to sign up in my courses. And if you  are taking the exam in a university that requires   00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:27.360 that you sign up for an exam separately, in a  separate system, then you need to do that as well.   00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:34.080 More details are available on the course website. Then we have a learning diary. The idea of   00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:40.560 learning diary is that it's about 20 questions.  It's "about" because sometimes I decide to add a   00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:45.840 good question in the middle of the course, but it  has been 20 questions for last maybe three years.   00:03:46.720 --> 00:03:51.520 Your task is to answer those questions  with a couple of paragraphs per question   00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:56.960 so a good length of the final learning diary  would be perhaps between 10 and 20 pages   00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:04.080 for the 20 questions. Work during the course,  so at the end of each unit open your learning   00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:11.040 diary and go through the questions and see  which questions we address during that unit.  00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:17.680 And how your understanding developed during  the unit. Your task here is not that much to   00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:24.880 self-reflect but to write like you would write an  exam answer. These are going to be returned for   00:04:24.880 --> 00:04:31.680 grading one week after the final unit. So i don't  get any intermediate work I just want to have   00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:36.880 your learning diaries at the end. That will  serve kind of like a final exam for the course.   00:04:38.320 --> 00:04:41.840 So this is the workload for the  eight credit version of the course   00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:48.160 and this assumes that you do everything. It's calculated using this measurement system for   00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:56.480 master's level teaching and with this measurement  model or calculation model with 291 hours of work.   00:04:57.280 --> 00:05:04.640 If you really do all the optional parts of the  course there is few students per year who do that.   00:05:05.280 --> 00:05:11.760 They tend to spend about two days per week  on the course for the duration of about four   00:05:11.760 --> 00:05:17.280 months that the course runs. So if you do all  the parts, it's going to be a lot of work. It's   00:05:17.280 --> 00:05:24.240 probably going to be worth it because you get a  foundation on which to build more advanced skills.   00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.880 But then again if you just want to do  the basic final five credit version,   00:05:28.880 --> 00:05:34.480 you can leave about half of these readings  out and it greatly on reduces the workload.   00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:40.720 You can follow your completion on the  course website. So whenever you have an   00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:48.880 activity that you are required to do, there's  a box on the side of the activity. And when you   00:05:48.880 --> 00:05:56.240 have completed that activity then the box will  be checked. There's the completion tracker here   00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:04.480 it turns green once you start completing things  and if you fall behind it turns red. There are   00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:10.560 two kinds of deadlines on the course. We have  due dates and we have expected completion dates.  00:06:12.080 --> 00:06:18.800 Expected completion dates simply affect the  progress tracker so that is for you to check   00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:26.560 that you are on schedule. You have the events  here and then assignments have due dates. The   00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:33.120 assignment due dates are more important because  the due date means that I need the assignments on   00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:39.280 a certain day to be able to grade them on the  next day. So if there's a deadline on Monday   00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:44.320 then I want to grade everything on Tuesday so we  can discuss those on Wednesday in the seminar.   00:06:44.320 --> 00:06:49.200 If you miss a due date then you will not  have your feedback for the seminar and it   00:06:49.200 --> 00:06:54.560 might take a longer time before you actually  get the feedback from me So that's completion   00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:59.200 tracking. It turns green once you have completed  everything. It should be fully green and this is   00:06:59.200 --> 00:07:08.000 only for the mandatory parts. Grading, what does  the grade consist of. Pre-exam is going to be 10% 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:14.400 assignments 40%, participation 30%. You get  participating grade by posting the forum, watching   00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:19.200 the video lectures and doing the tasks and  being active participants in the seminars.  00:07:19.200 --> 00:07:28.480 Then learning diary is 20%. So your grade is going  to be 80 determined even before the course ends.  00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:33.280 So this is continuous grading. And you can  follow your own progress and how you're doing. 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:40.240 How you follow the actual grading is that you  go to Moodle's grade book and then there's grade   00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:45.680 sheet here that allows you to check what kind  of grades you got for each assignment. Five is   00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:51.920 the maximum one is minimum passing. Zero means  failing and then there is typically some kind of   00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:57.840 information on how that compares to other grades  if you are into looking at that kind of things.