SE250:agenda-2006-05-08

Minutes

Minutes for the 8th of May 2006.

Minute taker: Mark

Minutes from May 5th by Mohannad Hammadeh (a.k.a. Martin) were accepted.

Agenda

• Clarification on marking of drafts as opposed to final presentation (Does a draft poster as well as final poster have to be made or can just the content be assessed etc).
• Rubricks.
• Tomorrows Lab.
• State of contribution for wiki.
• Last Weeks Lab.
• Mark Computation.

May 8th Meeting

Clarification on draft assessment

Drafts for all formats will be assesed by the progress made towards the final resource. For class presentations, a draft 15 minute presentation will be made in the next two weeks. There can be about 3 per meeting.

Rubricks

The rubricks for Posters, Visual Presentations, and Presentations have been discussed in class. Dr. Hamer will organise the remaining rubrics for Experiment Kits, Reading List, and Notes by Wednesday in an effort to finalise the issue.

Tomorrows Lab

There will be a lab tomorrow! It is ready, and we all can't wait to find out what it is.

State of contributions

There are some learning resource pages on the wiki which lead nowhere. The wiki pages should be kept up do date with progress on your resource.

• Student contributed learning resources

Lab Reports

The general quality of lab reports was not considered to be good enough. These need to be improved.

Lab reports page for 2 May.

Also take the time to comment on other peoples labs and note how long you spent doing so.

Common problems were:

• Results but no method: Some form of results were given but the report lacked an explanation for the method in gaining these results. It would be good to show useful bits of code. Commenting on code and steps taken to ensure anomalies were taken care of. General evidence that the tests are robust and valid.

• Method but no results: A detailed method was given, but the results were not clearly presented.

• Data only in tables: Showing data only in table format can be insufficient when trying to represent trends. GNU Plot and GraphVis?? can be used to help show trends. Interesting points on the graphs should be shown e.g. Intersections where one function starts to become better than another function.

• No conclusions: Reports should have conclusions and give indications at how confident you are in the results.

• Errors of various types: There were errors such as taking into account the time for creating strings when measuring some functions.

Mark Computation

The marks to be gained outside of the exam and tests is 12.5%. Gaining this should not be taxing. The aim of the course is to learn. The effort, quality and understanding gained from these learning resources will be taken into account.

Mark Anomolies

There is no precise formula to the marking. "Unhappieness = bad". If you feel you have a special case, see Dr. Hamer.

Next Meeting

Voulanteers are welcome to give a presentation on GaphVis, TeX, GNU plot etc. The next meeting is set for May 10.