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Assessment

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assessment.Rmd

Overview

This course will be assessed on the basis of a set of formative assessments and one summative assessment.

Formative assessments are assessments for which you might receive feedback on, but which will not be marked. These will give you a chance to keep on track with the course contents and get interim feedback that will better prepare you for the summative assessment. See below for info.

You will have to submit one summative assessment. This assessment will be marked and that will be your final mark.

  • Summative assessment (SA1): Data viz and modelling report
    • 100% of final mark.
    • No word limit.
    • Data released in Week 9.
    • Due date: Thursday 8 December 2022 at noon (Week 12).

See below for details.

Formative assessments

There are 9 formative assessments. These are optional but we strongly recommend you to complete as many as you can so that you can keep up with the materials and receive interim feedback.

These are divided between assessments due on Mondays (FM) and assessments due on Thursdays (FT). All assessments are due by noon.

Formative assessments due on Mondays (noon)

  • RS (every week): “Retrieving syllabus”.
    • You can find the template here. Each week, write one short sentence in Columns 3-5. See template for directions on what to write. NOTE: You have to submit this formative assessment on Monday of Week 10.
  • FM1 (Week 2): Positionality statement (one short paragraph).
    • Submit one short paragraph describing your positionality, based on the readings from Week 1 (Darwin 2020, Jafar 2018).
  • FM2 (Week 3): Grammar of graphics analysis.
  • FM3 (Week 4): What are the consequences of realism vs antirealism on quantitative research? (one paragraph).
  • FM4 (Week 6): Interface between Gelman’s “virtues” and Gibbon’s “social contract” (one paragraph).

Formative assessments due on Thursdays (noon)

  • FT1 (Week 3): Data viz.
  • FT2 (Week 6): Linear model report.
  • FT3 (Week 9): Data analysis.

If you feel that all 8 formative assessments are too much, then you can choose to submit only the Thursday’s formative assessments.

Summative assessment

There is only summative assessment for this course. Your final mark will be the mark you get on this assessment.

You will be given a data set and you will have to:

  • Read and wrangle the data.
  • Produce a series of plots and comment on them.
  • Conduct and report statistical models to answer a couple of research questions.

You will submit this assessment in the form of a lab report.

More information will be released in due course.