693AssignmentMasterSheet

toc =CCT693 Assignment Master-sheet= Upload assignments, review comments, and keep track of your own progress so that interaction with the instructor can focus on dialogue around written work. (If you write something by hand and have no access to a scanner, submit it as is and I'll scan & upload for you.)

Action Research Written Assignments & work-in-progress presentations, 2/3 of grade
Initial attempts for all assignments, however sketchy, should be [|dropped into xythos] on the date indicated. At least 5 of these assignments, including A7, should be revised and resubmitted in responses to comments until “OK/RNR” is received. PT will indicate OK/RNR in red on this page. Complete draft of A7 required before moving on to final report. 5/12 = Final date for submissions & revisions (except A7) 693-09 for the course and year, your initials, the assignment number, the month and the day, e.g., 693-09PTA1Feb22.doc. Insert the link to the dropped off assignment in this column (using a new line for each revision), then email PT to say you have done this. ||
 * || **Rename your file before dropping it into xythos**:
 * A1. 2/10 1st Reflection on your Experience as Novice Action Researchers ||  ||
 * A2. 2/24 Initial Paragraph Overview of Project ||  ||
 * A3. 3/3 KAQ ||  ||
 * A4. 3/10 Eval. clock, part a; 3/31, part b ||  ||
 * A5. 3/24 work-in-progress presentations & Notes on research and planning; update 4/28 ||  ||
 * A6. 4/14 Narrative outline of project report ||  ||
 * A7. report, 5/5 complete draft; 5/18 final revised report (by email) ||  ||

Participation and contribution to the Class Process, 1/3 of grade
unless otherwise indicated || possible application of tools to your project, perused at 1st conference or before mid-semester ||  ||
 * || Insert date when item is completed
 * B. Prepared participation and punctual attendance at class meetings (13) || missed classes on... ||
 * B2. Syllabus quiz, 2/3 ||  ||
 * C. Summaries/revisions posted on wiki of readings on weeks 9, 10, 12 (3 items) || provide wikilinks ||
 * D. Personal/Professional Development (PD) Workbook, incl. D1. Regular PD entries on
 * D2. Worksheet on PD & research organization submitted 3/10 ||  ||
 * D3. Whole PD workbook ready to be perused at the end of the semester (week 13) ||  ||
 * D4. Annotated links to "Clippings," posted on the wiki (2 items for 6 postings) ||  ||
 * D5. Process review on the development of your work (week 13) ||  ||
 * E. Minimum of two in-office or phone conferences on your assignments and projects, by 3/13 ||  ||
 * by 4/24 ||  ||
 * F. Assignment wikipage maintained by student and ready for review by 5/5, with completion contract if needed ||  ||
 * G. Peer commentary on another student's draft report by 5/12 student = ||  ||

Assessment to assign grades above B+
to be completed at the end of the semester Self-assessment Optional

Use the following system to make your own self-assessment for each quality below OK [= "did an OK job, but room for more development/attention"], or - [= "to be honest, this was not my strength in this course"]
 * [= "fulfilled very well"],

(initial example as well as class activities around semester-long projects) ||  ||
 * 1. A sequence of assignments paced more or less as in syllabus (and revisions timely), || .......... ||
 * 2. often revised thoroughly and with new thinking in response to comments. ||  ||
 * 3. Project innovative, well planned and carried out with considerable initiative, and ||  ||
 * 4. indicates that you are ready to move to implementation in your specific situation ||  ||
 * 5. Project report clear and well structured, ||  ||
 * 6. with supporting references and detail, and professionally presented. ||  ||
 * 7. Active contribution to and reflection on process of learning from Action Research
 * 8. Ability to shift between opening out & focusing in as required to complete full Eval. clock ||  ||
 * 9. Active, prepared participation and building class as learning community. ||  ||
 * 10. PD workbook/wiki incl. process review show: Consistent work outside class, ||  ||
 * 11. deep reflection on your development through the semester and ||  ||
 * 12. mapping out of the future directions in which you plan to develop ||  ||

If there are big discrepancies between the student's and the instructor's assessments, we should discuss the discrepancies and try to come to a shared agreement about them.

Incompletes and Completions
1. Final date for submissions & revisions (exc. revised final report) = Last day of classes

2. Final grade will be based on work submitted and work completed (OK/RNR) by the date for submission of grades.

3. Exceptions to the 1 & 2 require a completion contract to be submitted by the student and approved by the instructor. Use the assignment checklist (above) to indicate (in red) contracted dates for specific assignments.

4. If you haven't got up to a passing grade when you submit the incomplete contract, it must include your agreeing to participate in a peer incomplete completion/writing group next semester, and in the course the next time it is offered (to improve your grade, unless you have graduated). (The reason for these stipulations is because the desired learning rarely takes place during standard one-your-own incompletes, despite the best intentions of student and professor. There is no substitute for the development of teaching/learning interactions that happens with peers and regular week-by-week meetings.)

5. If you do not get OK/RNR on the revised final report by the date for submission of grades, participation in the peer completion group is recommended.

6. The peer incomplete completion/writing group for next semester is planned for Tuesdays from 5.30-7.30 (starting TBA, place TBA). (All are welcome, even if you don't have an incomplete.)

7. My experience is that students who really need an incomplete (i.e., fit under #4) often don't get around to submitting an incomplete contract. If I decide to give such a student an incomplete anyway, I will still ask for #3 & 4 when the student eventually proposes to complete their work for the course.

8. Please don't expect me to work with you over the summer and winter breaks to complete your assignments -- you can't believe the deadlines I have to try to make up during these periods (i.e., the "incompletes" I have accumulated). In other words, do what you can by the day when grades are due and then take a break from "dialogue around written work" until the new semester starts.