PPCR Course Grading and Pass-Fail Criteria

PPCR Grading Criteria

Grading and Pass-Fail Criteria

Participants are required to complete the following to earn a grade:

• Forum Participation (at Ryver): 300 points
• Exams (five): 50 points
• 3 Research Papers: 300 points–divided as:
  • Mini Review Paper: 100 points.
  • Data Analysis Paper: 100 points.
  • Research Grant Proposal Paper: (based on a report of the student contributions on the paper). Please note that half of this grade will count student participation during the 5-day (for those not going, they have the opportunity of developing an individual project to make up for this grade)
    = 5-day workshop (or alternatively an individual project): 100 points=This final grade will be the grade given to the project by the faculty from the 5-day workshop as they will measure your participation during the discussions of both the grant proposal and data analysis project. For those who cannot go to the 5-day workshop, we will provide an alternative of an individual project, that will have a similar amount of study hours as the 5-day workshop (we highly encourage attendance in the 5-day workshop),
• Homework Assignments: 75 points
• Lecture Participation and note/podcast: 150 points
• Lecture–Formulating a Question: 25 points
• Total Points Possible: 1000 points

Pass-fail grading will be based on the final grade. A satisfactory grade is considered to be above 75% (750 points). At the end of the program, a certification letter will be given only to participants with satisfactory lecture’s attendance (minimum 75% of the lectures) and grade. You can only have seven lecture absences. Note that during the program, for each module, extra bonus assignments will be given to recover points. Tutorial Lecture is not
counted towards attendance, however it is highly recommended that you attend.

Certificate: We will provide a hard-copy of the certificate for the students who attend the 5-Day Immersion Course, during the ceremony. Otherwise, a PDF electronic certificate will be sent to your email by the end of the program, with instructions on how to print it.

*Participants who cannot attend the 5-Day Immersion Course can earn the 50 points through an individual project. It is not impossible, but in our experience, we have seen that it is quite difficult to pass without either one of these activities (individual group project or 5-Day Immersion Course). So, if you cannot go to the 5-Day Immersion Course (which is highly recommended), make sure you complete and present the individual project, if you are interested in completing this program successfully. In our experience students who do not do any of these, need on average a weekly grade average (for the entire year) of 90% or above and exam grade of an average of 50% or more for all the exams. We recommend you to track your performance in your Google Classroom profile.

Important: the program staff and the program director are here to help you complete the program successfully. If, for some reason, you experience any issues during the program that prevents you from completing activities regularly, please contact us as soon as possible so we can assist you. In the past, we had participants that struggled, but waited until after the program finished and only then informed us that issues during the program prevented them from participating and getting the necessary grades. At that point, it was not possible to help as program activities were over.