Hypothetical question

[exirabit]

Hi All,

This question came up in a graduate group and I was curious how you all would respond.

Lets supose you were a TA for a class and you had a student who you did not have scores for multiple assignments over the course who could not produce copies of the work but insisted they turned them in what would you do?

Comments

[sea__secret]

I would tell them that it's really foolish not to keep copies of their work--at the very least, it should have been saved to a hard drive and/or on a disc. I think the burden of responsibility falls to the student, in this case. If they aren't responsible enough to keep better track of their work, it's hard to believe they really even belong in college.

[kreine]

if they don't have graded copies, have them submit electronic copies to you on CD. You can look up the document history (profile) to find the 'created' date (and compare with 'modified') to make certain that they seem in the right range.
Read them - ring a bell?
decide whether/how to score them, if you truly think the student deserves a break.

[max_ambiguity]

Someday I'd like to grade a class based on need. It would be so easy - all the freshman and sophomores would fail, half the juniors would pass, and all of the seniors would pass. The only work I would have to do would be to choose between the failing and passing juniors. So much less work for me than when I have to determine what grade they've actually earned.

[snowflakelike]

Tell them they are SOL.

[skirmishgirl]

I've had it happen. I flunked them. There was a ruckus. I was right.

Good luck!

(And sorry to be so short, but I don't have a lot of patience for a lot of students, and this was the beginning of that for me. It's a much longer story, but in the end, this is what it shakes down to.)