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How about having the student’s score decay as some function of how late they turn it in? If they turn it in before the deadline, they get 100% of their marked g
by defen 7y ago
How about having the student’s score decay as some function of how late they turn it in? If they turn it in before the deadline, they get 100% of their marked grade, if it’s an hour late 90%, a day late 50%, etc (use whatever function you want)
- knzhou 7y agoUsually, delays lead to logistical difficulties. Until every copy of an assignment is submitted, you can't release solutions, assign grades, talk about the problems in lectures or recitations, or really give any feedback whatsoever. I've had excellent courses that ran on your system, but in those cases they had it completely standardized from year to year, and even automated grading systems.
- Dylan16807 7y agoIf you're just trying to solve the bad feelings caused by a really hard deadline, you could do something as simple as "due at midnight, 80% credit from midnight to 6am". Then everyone's still done by class.
- lonelappde 7y agoThis issue only comes up if you have a low caliber class where homework is nontrivial part of the grade.
- knzhou 7y agoMy graduate classes were 100% homework-based almost without exception. When you're doing hard enough physics, it doesn't make sense to demand people do anything nontrivial in an hour, like in a typical exam. Real problems take at least whole days of thought.
- sudosteph 7y agoMy professor for Assembly did exactly that and it felt very fair. However, I think that was only possible because every assignment used an automated grading program, so we could weigh the risk vs reward when deciding if we should spend another day optimizing the code. If an actual person was burdened with grading each assignment, it makes sense to have a harder cutoff that ensures it's possible to grade in a batch for efficiency.
- seditiousseals 7y agoOne of my professors at UCLA has a very lenient policy - you lose 2^(n-1) points, where n is the number of days after the deadline you've submitted. This meant that turning in your assignment one or two days late was no big deal, but turning it in four or five days late would be pretty bad.
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoAt my u iversity your grade would decay by 5% a day, if I recall correctly.