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Participants will complete the following course requirements:

1. An Inquiry Project (60% of Final Grade)

2. Course Readings/Online Discussion Periods (40% of Final Grade)

See details of each requirement below.

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Inquiry Project

Each participant will complete an inquiry project. (For more information about the project, click here.) Your grade on the inquiry project will be based on these criteria:

1. Completing each phase of the project on time. (See calendar for phase due dates. All phase assignments are due by 8 p.m. EST on the days they are due.)

2. Completing all requirements for each phase of the project.

The inquiry project includes six phases. A written assignment will be submitted for each phase. Each phase is worth 10% of your final inquiry project grade. Percentage points will be assigned according to these guidelines:

 

Earning 10 Percentage Points

10 percentage points will be awarded if work is submitted on time and is complete.

 

Earning 8 or 9 Percentage Points

9 percentage points will be awarded if work is submitted on time and is mostly complete (i.e., minor pieces of information are missing that, if not completed, will not have a significant impact on the participant's ability to move forward with the project) AND if the missing information is submitted within 3 days of when the participant is notified that it is missing.  If the missing information is NOT submitted within 3 days, the participant will receive 8 percentage points (even if the missing work is eventually submitted beyond the 3 days).

 

Earning 5, 6, or 7 Percentage Points

If work is submitted on time but is NOT mostly complete (significant information is missing that is needed in order to successfully move onto the next phase of the project) OR if the work is NOT submitted on time, then percentage points will be awarded according to these guidelines:

• If all work is submitted within 3 days*, the participant will receive 7 percentage points. 

• If all work is submitted 4 to 7 days later*, the participants will receive 6 percentage points.

• If all work is submitted more than 7 days later* (but no more than 14 days later), the participant will receive 5 percentage points.  

* WHEN THESE EXTENSION PERIODS BEGIN: For participants submitting some portion of the phase work on the day it is due, this extension period begins on the day on which the participant is notified that work is missing. For participants not submitting anything on the day it is due, this extension period begins on the original due date.

Participants who are unable to complete all requirements for a given inquiry project phase within the 2 week extension will not receive credit for that phase. However, in order to move onto the next phase and receive credit for it, the participant needs to communicate with the instructor either via email or over the phone what his/her intentions are for the phase that was not submitted. Due to the cumulative nature of the inquiry project phases, no participant may continue with the project until he/she has communicated with the instructor in some way about each subsequent phase.

 

 

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Course Readings and Online Discussion Periods

 

There will be four three-week Discussion Periods. (See the calendar for dates.) For each of those Discussion Periods, you will be reading an article and discussing it with classmates on Oncourse, Indiana University's online collaboration and learning environment. (Click here to go to the Oncourse login page.)

 

Locating Articles to Be Read

Articles will be posted in the "Resources" folder in our Oncourse site. (Once you are logged into Oncourse, click on "Resources" in the black bar across the left-hand side of the page.) Articles for the upcoming Discussion Period will be placed in the Resources folder at least two weeks prior to the first day of the Discussion Period.

 

Discussion Period Timelines/Minimum Requirements

Prior to Week 1 of Each Discussion Period - Locate and read the article designated for that Discussion Period.

 

By 8 p.m. EST on Friday of Week 1 of Each Discussion Period - Answer questions/respond to the discussion prompts for that Discussion Period's article. You will receive the questions/prompts for a given article at least two weeks prior to week 1 of each Discussion Period.

 

By 8 p.m. EST on Friday of Week 2 of Each Discussion Period - Respond to classmates' postings. Read all of your classmates' postings. Then post a response to your classmates' postings in some way. For example, you might comment on ideas that were particularly interesting to you, compare and contrast the ideas in your classmates' original postings to those in your own, and/or post additional questions. (If you will be posing questions for specific classmates, please do so by posting directly in response to their original posting.)

 

By 8 p.m. EST on Friday of Week 3 of Each Discussion Period -

1. Read all of your classmates' week 2 responses. Answer any questions that your classmates asked you specifically or the class in general. (If there are no questions, then you'll not need to respond to any J.) Also, post your final thoughts about the article and/or the Discussion Period postings.

 

2. Update your classmates on your inquiry project. What you choose to share about your project is up to you. Your classmates will most certainly be interested in the focus of your project, as well as in ways you're gathering information to help you answer your research question. They'll probably want to know about problems you encounter along the way and ways in which you deal with those problems. While you'll be required to post information about your projects for your classmates at least four times during the semester (during the 3rd week of each Discussion Period), you are welcome to do so as many more times as you want. And if you would like to run some questions or challenges you're having by your classmates via your postings, and ask for their input, that is not only welcome, but encouraged.

 

Earning Percentage Points

Participants can earn up to 10 percentage points for each Discussion Period. A participant will receive all 10 percentage points if all of the following are true of all postings for that period:

• All postings are posted on time.

• Postings are well-organized and easy to read and make sense of.

• Postings make it clear that the reading assignment was completed.

• Postings are thoughtful.

• Postings adhere to all guidelines specified above.

For each day any given posting is late during a Discussion Period, one point will be deducted from the 10 possible percentage points for that Discussion Period. If your instructor has any concerns with the content of the postings, she will contact you directly in order to discuss those concerns.