Re: [Phys-l] Unit Conversions (was Mass and Energy)

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@hep.anl.gov>]

	Or a "pre-intellectual banquet cocktail prefatory to an end of 
grading-period awarding of heroism medals for the purpose of raising the 
morale of the energy-challenged geniuses who fill my classroom".
	Sorry, that's th best I could do on short notice.
			Regards,
				Jack


 On Tue, 30 May 2006, Robert Cohen wrote:

> What if you called it an "in-class activity" instead of a "quiz" and
> counted it toward a "participation grade" instead of a separate "quiz
> grade" category?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Robert A. Cohen, Department of Physics, East Stroudsburg University
> 570.422.3428   rcohen@po-box.esu.edu    http://www.esu.edu/~bbq
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
> > [mailto:phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf
> > Of Bob LaMontagne
> > Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 12:53 PM
> > To: 'Forum for Physics Educators'
> > Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Unit Conversions (was Mass and Energy)
> >
> > This is slightly OT. However, I am still seething about it so
> > I'm going to vent. Throughout the past 20 years I have
> > started all of my classes with a short 5 minute conceptual
> > quiz that I use to keep the students occupied while I pass
> > back the graded homework from the previous class. I require
> > the students to read the day's lecture material before coming
> > to class and the quiz simply checks that they have read it.
> >
> > In all this time I have never had a learning disabled student
> > ask for any accommodation on the quiz - lucky for me because
> > I still haven't figured out what I would do if they wanted
> > extra time to complete the quiz.
> >
> > This year, the lacrosse coach started demanding that I allow
> > the team members that I have in my conceptual physics course
> > take the quiz when they return to campus when they had to
> > miss class because of an exam. I balked at this because the
> > only purpose of the quiz (5 percent of the class grade) is to
> > ensure that the material was read so that students could
> > engage in class discussion and better understand the brief
> > lecture presented each class.
> > Specifically, the coach wanted me to email the quizzes to the
> > students so they could return them on the next class they
> > attended. I didn't want to have copies of the quiz on file at
> > the athletic department, so I refused to provide them - I
> > don't want to make a whole new set of daily quizzes each
> > semester. I was recently informed by the Dean's office that I
> > must make special accommodation for the athletes or else stop
> > giving the quizzes.
> >
> > Thank goodness I'm getting close to retirement.  :-)
> >
> > Bob at PC
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