Midterm Exam 1 Instructions

Fall 2014 PHYS-218: 1. Midterm Exam 1 Instructions

Contact people and cell phone numbers: Barun Dhar, (952) 818-0223 Ricardo Eusebi (630) 853-9147 Saskia Mioduszewski (979) 721-1537

Picks Up Exam Sections Exam Students Exam Room Room Proctors Copies enrolled Location Seats occupancy Eusebi 525-529(RE,129) 258 MPHY 203- 468 55% R. Eusebi, T. Stiegler, 505-509 (TS,129) 205 Minjie Lu, D. Rodrigues

Kocharovsky 591-593 (VK,78) 78 HELD 105 104 75% V. Kocharovsky 594-595 (VK,51) 51 HELD 107 104 50% S. Rose 510-512 (VK,77) 77 HELD 109 104 75% R. Beck 513-514,561 71 HELD 111 104 68% J. Atchison (VK,71) 575-577 (BD, 70) 70 HELD 113 104 67% M. Barbarino Dhar 501-504,558, 180 HELD 200 311 58% B. Dhar, Gang Li, N. Su 573-574 (BD, 180) Disabilities <14 HELD 118* 28 Fuxiang Li, Longfei Fan (backup disabilities) <14 HELD 119* 28

Rogachev 530-533 (GR,91) 91 HECC 145 63% G. Rogachev, N. Holt 105** Webb 579-583 (BW,130) 156 HECC 108 248 63% B. Webb, D. Anderson 565 (GR,26) Sezgin 515-518 (ES,103) 103 HECC 110 148 69% E. Sezgin, A. Azizi Mioduszewski 520-524 (SM, 129) 154 HECC 256 60% S. Mioduszewski, R. 519 (ES,25) 207** Lawrence

TOTAL 1269 2096 61% *This is a smaller room for Disability Services exams. **Class ends in the room at 7:00pm, and it will take a few minutes for the room to clear before the P218 students can be seated.

2. Picking up the exams: Before 5 pm on Wednesday October 1st, 2014. Printed exams will be arranged in stacks with the two flavors of the exam mixed, so that every next packet is of different flavor than the one preceding it. Exams will be locked in the safe and people whose

1 name appear on the table above under “Picks Up Exam” must pick up their stacks before 5pm on the day of the exam at the main physics office. After 5pm, the safe will be locked and there will be no way to retrieve the exams. Exams will only be given to authorized people whose name appears on the list (please do not send graduate students to pick up the exams, you have to retrieve them in person!).

3. Room Information All rooms where exams will take place are reserved the day of the exam from 7pm to 10pm. Rooms and exterior-building doors should be opened at the time of the exam. If they are not please see information below

 MPHY rooms can be opened with your classroom keys. MPHY exterior doors lock at 8:00pm. To obtain the key to raise the wall contact Heather Walker during normal office hours. If you have difficulty raising the walls, call Heather Walker at (979) 218-6675.

 HELD exterior doors lock at 9:00pm. The building manager is Veronica Ramirez cell (979) 777- 8775, who will unlock the classroom doors before 7:00pm.

 HECC exterior doors lock at 9:45pm. The Harrington Media Center (HMC) proctors the building; the phone number is (979) 845-7720 and it is located in HECC 109, which is in the middle of the first floor. The HMC office is staffed MTWR evenings.

4. Accommodation of Disability Students Room HELD-118 is specifically reserved for students with special needs. If this room is not enough HELD- 119 will be available as well. Disability students are expected to contact lecturers showing them the form from Disability Services specifying the type of special accommodation required. Lecture instructors should instruct students who qualify for twice (or less) the nominal amount of time to take the exam in the designated room above, starting at the same time as the regular exam. Instructors should send the contact people at the top of this document a list of students who received your authorization to take the exam under these conditions.

There is a small subset of disability students with needs that exceed our room accommodations, such as for example students requiring individual rooms. If you have any of these students please contact the people at the top of this document. They will try to arrange for this special student to take the test at the Disabilities Services center. The Disability Services, which usually closes at 6pm, will be requested to extend their schedule and not let students leave or allow access to phone or other means of communication until 7.30pm. 5. Laboratory the day of the exam During the week of the exams there will be no Lab experiment. However, during exam weeks lab times are usually used for extra practice recitations. Given that there are two sections with labs from 6:10 to 8pm, and in the spirit of uniformity, during exam week all sections will have practice recitations for only up to 50 minutes. Therefore all sections will be finished by 7pm the day of the exam. 6. Exam Proctoring: Starting at 7:00 PM on Exam Day The PHYS-218 common midterm exam 1 will be conducted on Wednesday October 1 st, 2014 from 7:30pm onwards. Because a stack of exams could be heavy the TA’s should contact the instructor

2 picking up the exams to coordinate the delivery of the exams to the exam location. It is strongly recommended that all proctors are at the designated room and start setting up for the exam at 7:00pm. In case of any problems, immediately call one of the contact people at the top of this document.

Exam stacks will have mixed exams with alternating versions of the exam. It is assumed that people proctoring the exams will ensure proper distribution of the exams to minimize the number of students sitting next each other and having the same flavor of the exam.

The duration of the exam is 1 hour 15 minutes (75 minutes) counting from the moment the students were instructed that they can open the packets. We have agreed not to give any extra time beyond 75 minutes to preserve uniformity. Most exams will be over at 9:00pm, with the exception of disability students who get 2hs 30 mins (two times the allotted time) and should be done by around 10.00pm.

Once the exam is over, proctors are responsible for delivering the exams to room MPHY 418. If the room is locked when you arrive call the people in the contact list at the top of this document. In the room there will be a physical spreadsheet containing the number for all sections. The person bringing the exams to the grading room should sort the exams by section, count the number of exams in each of their sections, write such number in the spreadsheet, and sign it. 7. Exam Grading: Starting Morning after Exam date The exams will be sorted by sections, but will not be separated by flavor. Graders will have to separate the two flavors of the exams as they work on grading the exams. The first team to grade a particular stack performs the split into the two flavors, so that other teams will have their exams already sorted if grading proceeds in the same order.

Table below shows the time of the “first meeting” of the grading team, which will include a faculty advisor. The main purpose of this first meeting is to tune and correct the grading rubric based on a sampling of exams to identify typical mistakes. Graders are expected to continue grading on the days following the exam based on the rubric developed with the faculty advisor.

Once grading is completed, the TA of each section will be responsible to sum up the scores to obtain the total, write it in the exam, and enter their students’ scores in eCampus in the column called “Midterm Exam 1”. If a particular instructor wants this column to be hidden from the student’s view they should set it so themselves. Once scores are entered, the course coordinator(s) will provide summary statistics information along with the recommended correspondence between scores and letter grades. Lecture instructors will determine how they will use this information individually and set the scores visible (if not already) to students upon verification.

Problem Graders Sections First Meeting Location/Time problem 2 N. Su 515-531 Thursday at 9:00AM M.Barbarino 505-514,591-595,532-533 Faculty advisor: D. Anderson 501-504,558,573-577,579- either of Bob, Barun, Tyana 583,561,565 Problem 3 G. Li 515-531,561 Thursday at 9:00AM

3 N. Holt 505-514,591-595,532-533 Faculty advisor: J. Atchison 501-504,558,573-577,579- either of Bob, Barun, Tyana 583,561,565 Problem 4 R. Lawrence 515-531,561 Thursday at 9:15AM (except L. Fan L. Fan 505-514,591-595,532-533 at 4 pm) F. Li 501-504,558,573-577,579- Faculty advisor: either of Bob, 583,561,565 Barun, Tyana Problem 5 D.Rodrigues 515-531,561 Thursday at 4:00PM S. Rose 505-514,591-595,532-533 Faculty advisor: either of Bob, R. Beck 501-504,558,573-577,579- Barun, Tyana 583,561,565 Problem 1 (Multiple M. Lu* 515-532,558,579-583,565 Thursday at 4:00PM Choice) A. Azizi* 501-514,561,573-577,591- Faculty advisor: either of Bob, 595,533 Barun, Tyana * indicates instructors who are 50% FTE on PHYS-218