Student Affairs

GRADING

General Grading Policy
http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/manual/Regulations/PartI/500.htm#500h (Academic Senate Grading Policy)

Responsibilities of the Instructor:
The instructor in charge of a course is solely responsible for the grades assigned. To avoid misunderstandings, the instructor should set forth his or her grading policy clearly at the beginning of each quarter, as well as the position taken on such requirements as examinations, reports and papers, make-ups, due dates, and which forms of aid and collaboration on assignments are authorized for the course.

Criteria
- All students must be graded on the same basis
- No extra work possible for salvaging a failing grade
- No extra time beyond final exam
- Incomplete only for health/family/emergencies and only during finals week.

Integrity of Scholarship
- Honesty must be upheld on both sides - student and faculty.
- Academic Dishonesty: detailed rules are in the UCSD catalog and Schedule of Classes.
- Instructors must report any and all occurrences of suspected academic dishonesty to the dean of the student's college for guidance.
- "Faculty Hold" to be put on the grade report's memorandum column and grade should be left blank which will become a "NR"
- A "Clerical Error Form" will correct the "NR" when issue is resolved. (See Grading Information booklet.)

http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/manual/appendices/app2.htm#AP14 - including suggestions for prevention and processing incidents.
http://research.ucsd.edu/ethics/index.html - directed primarily at research.

Returning Exams and Posting of Grades
The department has established an "Exam Collection Room",1503 Mandler Hall. Each course has a drawer in a filing cabinet (for one quarter after final). Your students must waive their privacy rights in order to store the exams in that location.

Posting of grades must be anonymous (perhaps by the four last digits of the student's ID). For further information please check: http://registrar.ucsd.edu/ver2/academics/records/records/html. Your students must waive their privacy rights in order to have their grades posted.

Here is a sample of an acceptable waiver to be handed out together with exams:

Print your name (last, first):
Student ID#:
Psychology Course #:
Midterm/Final Exam
Quarter:
WAIVER: By signing your name below, you waive your right to privacy. If you waive your right, your exam scores will be posted by identification number posted outside the Exam Pick-up Room on the second floor of AP&M across the hall of the main elevator (no room number). This room will house the exams of those who sign the waiver.

If you choose not to waive your right to privacy, your scores will not be posted. Your scores and tests will be available only through Dr. . . . . . at the regular scheduled office hours.

I AGREE TO WAIVE MY RIGHT TO PRIVACY: _____________________________
Signature/date

Grade Sheets
These will be placed in your mailbox before finals-week to be returned to the Student Services office (1533 Mandler Hall) by the date and time indicated on the cover sheet that accompanies the grade sheet. M.A. students will receive individual evaluation per course.

STUDENT AFFAIRS STAFF
STUDENT SERVICES OFFICE
1533 Mandler Hall
Phone: 858.534.3001
Fax: 858.534.2324