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Grade |
Criterion |
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F |
Fewer than 9 connections/essay or less than 27 connections/3essays. |
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D |
More than 9 connections/essay or more than 27connections/3essays. |
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C- |
More than 12 connections/essay or more than 36 connections/3essays. |
|
C |
More than 13 connections/essay or more than
39 connections/3essays. |
|
C+ |
More than 14 connections/essay or more than
42 connections/3essays. |
|
B- |
More than 15 connections/essay or more than 45 connections/3essays. |
|
B |
More than 16 connections/essay or more than
48 connections/3essays. |
|
B+ |
More than 17 connections/essay or more than
51 connections/3essays. |
|
A- |
More than 18 connections/essay or more than 54 connections/3essays. |
|
A |
More than 19 connections/essay or more than
57 connections/3essays. |
Extra credit will add between 0-6 points to the
total and change the grade from .20 to .40 of a letter grade.
Note: The critical criteria for
the evaluation is the number and quality of connections that you make
between the lecture material (i.e., stress/sports research & theory) and
the specific case you are trying to understand. The following is a good example
for the stress management class: "The
move from college has resulted in a higher number of life events and a
reduction in social support (friends are at home). Together these would suggest
that this person will have some adjustment problems. However, this person's
hardy personality (maintains the belief about being in control of life) may
enable her to see these events as a challenge rather than as a threat." (The three sentences above would have 3 or 4 connections: (1) life
events, (2) social support, (3) hardy personality, (4) challenge –
threat.) For the sports psychology
class, the following is a good example:
“The athlete was playing in an important game but she saw the game as
the most important one in her life. Thus, her level of arousal for this game
was much higher than her optimal level.
The inverted U-shaped, arousal curve predicts that her performance would
be substantially below her best. In
addition, she indicated that during the game she worried about how her
teammates were evaluating her. This may
have led to several errors during a critical part of the game.” (The five sentences above would have 3 or 4
connections: (1) higher than optimal level , (2) inverted U-shaped, (3)
performance below, (4) worried.)
Notification
You can find out
your grade at the end of the semester by calling the registrar's office or
looking up your grade on Insite. We
hand them in immediately after we are finished and your grade will be posted by
the registrar within 24 hours after we hand them in. Grades are NOT available prior to this time.