08 How is the Final Graded?

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To generate a general assessment of your performance and participation in class, on the midterm, and on the final, I will:

  • Look for originality (surprise me)
  • Check the code
  • Check for completeness of the assignments and the efficacy of the communication.
  • Look for overall improvement

The checklist I perform:

  • Make overall assessment, checking off the assessable tasks set forth in the syllabus. Is the HTML valid and semantically correct HTML5? Centralized style sheet? (there should be no local or embedded styles). Etc.
  • How responsive are the Final and Midterm?
  • Are there sufficient pages to represent a professional website? You do not need to actually build the site but need to build enough pages to represent how the full site would look and function.
  • Does it work in Firefox, Safari and Chrome? (If you know it works best in one or another browser, tell me.)
  • Check the code using W3.org’s Markup Validation Service. I can tolerate a few issues but the code should be error free.
  • Inspect the code as written for irregularities introduced by copying code and making it the basis of your code. It is OK to do some copying, borrowing, and stealing but not OK to rely on that. It is easy to tell if the code has been written or borrowed as all kinds of habits that I do not cover creep in.
  • Check all of the older assignments for completeness

I create a preliminary grade based on the above criteria. After having gone though each student’s work I will have a feel for how the class performed as a whole. I go through the work again and adjust each student’s grade on the class curve if need be. I also consider each student’s background and expertise. I may be more gentle with a non-Parsons student when it comes to visual design, for example.

An A requires attention to all of the above criteria. A B means that you completed your work, but were found lacking in execution.

A C is likely if work is missing or incomplete.

A D or F reflects a lot of missing or incomplete work.

Email me if you think that I failed to perform a fair assessment.

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