Evaluations

How we do grading

So do evaluations come about?

When it's time to do the grading, the TAs and I get together. And we set it up so that at least two of us look at each assignment (including the final project assignments). Then we discuss each assignment as a group and write down a numerical assessment.

Each assignment is evaluated based on those numerical assessments.

The final grade is a holistic evaluation of your work in the entire course, but as a rule of thumb 50% of the grade is due to Assignment 1 and 2, while the other 50% are due to your final project assignments and peer assessments.

Guide to interpret TA and Teacher evaluations

As mentioned above, the best we can do overall is a numerical evaluation of each sub-assignment. The meaning of the numbers are:

0 = indicates insufficient
1 = indicates sufficient (minimum criterion)
2 = indicates adequate
3 = indicates excellent

Note that these numbers are intended as feedback. There is no trivial mapping between the standard danish grading scale and the feedback provided as part of the class.

If you're interested in more specialized feedback (what you can do to improve, the reasoning behind a specific numerical evaluation, etc), please ask. We will give you a more detailed verbal version if you're interested.

Again: While the grade based on an evaluation of your performance as a whole, as a guideline, the two assignments count for about half of the grade and the final project for the other half.