An individual's final grade may be adjusted by as much as one letter grade based on these evaluations and on Dr. Dave's impressions. The purpose of the adjustment is to deal mostly with extreme circumstances. A positive adjustment will be given to an individual who worked much harder and contributed much more than the rest of the group, and a negative adjustment will be given to an individual who didn't work hard and didn't contribute much to the group. Grading will be adjusted throughout and at the end of the semester with a sliding scale. Cutoff scores between the letter grades will be based on overall class performance and based on the distribution of scores.
Cutoffs usually occur where there are gaps between clusters of similar scores.
No extra credit work will be offered to individuals to improve class grades.