Murali Shanker, A401 BSA |
E-mail: mshanker@kent.edu |
IM: mis24056 |
Web: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mshanker |
Phone: +1 330 672-1165 |
Class Times: online course |
Last day to withdraw: 30 June 2008
Prerequisites: Math 11011 (Algebra). Students attending the course who do not have the proper prerequisite risk being deregistered from the class.
Enrollment: It is the student’s responsibility to ensure proper enrollment in classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule to ensure proper enrollment. Should you determine an error in your class schedule, you have until 12 June 2008 to correct it with your advising office. If registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised now that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester.
Students With Disabilities: University policy 3342-3-18 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access to course content. If you have documented disability and require accommodations, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements for necessary classroom adjustments. Please note, you must first verify your eligibility for these through the Student Disability Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit http://www.kent.edu/sds for more information on registration procedures).
There will be 9 quizzes, and 5 examinations. All quizzes and examinations will be taken online, and are best taken using a standards-compliant web browser like Mozilla Firefox. Examinations and quizzes will consist of multiple choice, true or false, fill-in-the blanks, matching type, and calculation questions. All online testing material can be found at the course web site on Vista WebCT, and can be taken from anywhere (home, work, school, BSA computer labs, in the airport, from a hammock sipping Mango juice, etc.) the student has access to the Web. All tests are open-book, open notes, but before taking any test, the student will be asked to indicate his/her agreement to an Academic Honesty Statement. This statement will certify that the student agrees to abide by university rules on cheating, and any failure to do so will result in a failing grade. Thus, for example, while you are allowed to use books and notes for the tests, it is cheating if you ask other students to help you while taking the tests. This statement is available online at your course website. Do this first before doing anything else. A grade of F will be assigned if this is not completed.
Quizzes: There are 9 quizzes for this class. Each quiz is worth 10 points. The amount of time allotted for each quiz may vary, but will typically be around 25 minutes. You will have two attempts to take each quiz. The average result of the two attempts will be your score for that quiz. If you are happy with your first attempt, there is no need to take the second attempt. Results for the quizzes will be known immediately. Only the best 8 quizzes will be considered for your grade. Thus, the maximum points from quizzes is 80.
Examinations: There will be 5 examinations. Each examination is worth 50 points. Each exam (including the final) will take approximately 75 minutes. All examinations are cumulative. You will have only one attempt to take each examination. Results for the examination will be known immediately. Only the best four exams will be considered for your grade. Thus, the maximum points from exams is 200.
All examinations and quizzes will be available at your website from 9 June 2008 until 12 July 2008. While examinations and quizzes may be taken in any order, I suggest that you take them in the order given in the Exam and Quiz schedule. Please make sure you complete all requirements by 12 July 2008.
Dates and Timings: Test (quizzes, and examinations) are available for the duration of the course, and can be taken at any time during which they are available. As a warning, please do not wait until the last minute to take your tests. As you must realize in dealing with technology, several things can and will go wrong. The only condition under which I will extend the due dates is if the Vista server goes down on the last available day. Any problems with your computer, will not change the due date. As such, it is your responsibility to ensure that you complete the tasks in a timely fashion. You will get zero (0) points for all missed tests. Please ensure that your tests have been graded correctly, and notify the instructor immediately of any concerns.The grading scale for this class is as follows:
Grade |
A
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A-
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B+
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B
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B-
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C+
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C
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C-
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D+
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D
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Minimum Score Required |
257
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249
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241
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230
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221
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213
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202
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194
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186
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168
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As this class makes extensive use of audio and animation, make sure that you have access to the following:
The homepage of this course is on your Vista website. All navigation is best done starting at the Homepage. Here are some of the links you will find:
The multimedia lectures are available as part of the lesson plan. Click on Lectures (in the home page in WebCT/Vista). The Lectures are organized into Chapters, with each Chapter further broken down by topics. Each topic lasts about 50 minutes. While everybody's learning style is different, here is my recommended approach:
The following tables contains the class schedule.
Chapters |
Chapter 1: Data Collection |
Chapter 3: Describing Data |
Exam 1 Review |
Chapter 4: Probability |
Chapter 5: Normal Distribution (part of Chapter 4) |
Chapter 6: Sampling Distributions |
Exam 2 Review |
Chapter
7: Estimating Population Values -
Population Mean |
Chapter 8: Hypothesis Testing |
Exam 3 Review |
Chapter 13: Linear Regression and Correlation |
Final Review |
Test | Chapters |
Quiz 1 | 1 |
Quiz 2 | 3 |
Exam 1 | 1, 3 |
Quiz 3 | 4 |
Quiz 4 | 5 |
Quiz 5 | 6 |
Exam 2 | 1, 3-6 |
Quiz 6 | 7 |
Quiz 7 | 8 |
Exam 3 | 1, 3-8 |
Quiz 8 | 13 |
Quiz 9 | 14 |
Exam 4 | 1, 3-8, 13-14 |
Exam 5 | 1, 3-8, 13-14 |