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Course Evaluation/Grading... You will be evaluated on their knowledge of retail management and their ability to apply that knowledge effectively. Your performance will be evaluated by means of examinations, in and out of class assignments, a team project and your level of engagement in the class (participation). Specifically, the weights assigned to each of these performance measures are: |
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The student's final grade will be strictly determined as follows:
Examinations. Three examinations will be given during the semester: the first two at equal intervals during the semester (please note the in-class exam dates on the schedule – these dates will not change) and the third during the course exam period (the final exam will NOT be cumulative). Each exam may include a take home component in addition to the in-class assessment. The examinations may include a variety of question formats to include multiple choice, short answer and problem application. You will know about the exam format at least one week prior to the exam date. If there is a take home component, it will be posted to the course web site one week before it is due. Take home exams meet the same honor code requirements as an in-class exam. - return to top - Retail Strategic Plan Team Project. Members of the class will divide into groups of approximately 5 team members (the actual number and size of groups will be determined by final class size and will be at the instructor’s discretion). Each group will serve as a marketing consultant team. Your team will develop a retail strategic feasibility plan for a franchise considering opening a retail operation in the New River Valley area. This project will allow you to apply the concepts we cover throughout the semester in a real world environment. The team project assignments will be made on September 5, 2006. Attendance on this day is mandatory – if you do not attend class on this date, you may be forced to complete the project alone (and this is something you DO NOT want to do). Because you will generally not be able to select your co-workers in the early stages of your career, your teams will be selected using a modified randomized approach. I do not want “free riders” in any of the groups. I expect every group member to participate equally. I recognize, however, that this is not always the case. To ensure some degree of fairness (Note: I realize, and so should you, that no system is perfect) in assigning grades, you are required to complete a peer evaluation of your group members at the end of the semester. The purpose of the evaluations is to force you to confront (as a group) up front your expectations of each other when it comes to group work. Try and set up an objective system by which you will keep track of each others' contribution to the project so that there is minimal disagreement at the end on who contributed more (e.g., you may assign points at each meeting for arriving on time, having things in writing, coming prepared, etc.). Also, by discussing schedules, course loads, etc. you may be able to come to some agreement early as to who will contribute more (or less) to the group work. Your group grades will be adjusted by peer evaluation. This final peer evaluation is mandatory -- failure to turn it in will result in a 5 point deduction on your final adjusted project grade. The final peer evaluation will be given toward the end of the semester and will be used to adjust a student's grade on the group project (I may also do additional peer evaluations throughout the semester as well). The peer evaluation will be given toward the end of the semester and will be used to adjust a student's grade on the group project. For example, suppose a group’s final average for the semester is 95 points out of 100 points and suppose one of the members was evaluated by his/her peers at 80 percent. This student's score for the group project will NOT be 95, but (95 multiplied by .80 or 76). In the event there is a group dispute, the professor will make the final decision as to the group dispute. Please note that if your group is encountering a serious problem that may negatively impact the success of your project, it must be resolved as soon as possible. Waiting until the end of the semester, after the damage has been done, will be too late to try and resolve the problem. Your group project specifications will focus on this area in much greater detail.- return to top -
In and Out of Class Assignments.
In order to reinforce key course concepts (and because most learning occurs
outside the classroom), each student will be involved in participating in
content-related assignments and exercises. As you can see from the percentage of
the course grade, these assignments are critically important to the course.
Some of these may be assigned as homework; others may be in-class exercises.
Some assignments will be individual
while others may be done in teams.
On assignments where you are allowed
to work in teams or pairs, I expect
all partners to participate fully
in each and every exercise assigned. All assignments are due at the date and time specified on the assignment - no late assignments will be accepted. While I encourage you to do any missed assignments for your own learning (and because some assignments build upon earlier assignments), you cannot make-up missed assignments for credit – this includes both homework assignments and in-class assignments/activities. Because of the nature of the course, there will be no additional or extra credit assignments to increase your content-related assignments grade. I believe it is important that I provide you with accurate and timely feedback on these assignments. I will grade all assignments turned in to me on time. I will also try to return assignments back by the next class meeting (there will of course be times when that is not possible). Oftentimes students are concerned how poor performance on one or two assignments may impact their assignment grade. We all have bad days or have more trouble with certain concepts/techniques than others. Although I will not assign extra credit in this class, I will make adjustments (only upward adjustments) at the end of the semester. When I compute your final assignment grade, I will base it on 95% of the total assignment points assigned rather than 100. For example, if, at the end of the semester you earned 400 out of 450 possible assignment points, your final assignment grade will be 93.57 (400/(450 *.95)) rather than 88.89 (400 earned / 450 attempted). - return to top -
Chapter
Quizzes.
Keeping
up with the chapter readings is
important in order for the material
covered in class to be best
understood and to allow your most
active engagement in class. Short
quizzes (3 questions) will be given
on the first day a chapter is
covered in order to help keep you
up-to-date with the reading
material. For example, if a chapter
reading is shown on the Assignments
page as being due on January 19th,
the quiz will be given at the
beginning of class on that day. If
you leave class early, you will not
receive credit for any quiz taken on
that day. I will drop your three
lowest quiz grades. As additional
incentive, I will include some quiz
questions on each exam. Each quiz
will be worth 20 points – you will
receive 5 points for taking the quiz
and each question will be worth 5
points – in that way, if you have a
bad day and miss all of the
questions, you will still receive
some credit for being in class and
taking the quiz. Quizzes will begin
with Chapter 2 of your text.
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