HFIT-565
Assessment & Evaluation of Health Fitness Parameters
Fall Semester 2008
Dr. Marc Schaeffer
Assignment Preparation Checklist
You may find it useful to have a checklist to help remind you of all of the details to prepare your assignment. Please closely review the following. You may even want to print a copy and refer to it each time you prepare your weekly assignments by actually checking that you have done each step. You may even find it necessary to extend this checklist with additional reminders.
I will return assignments ungraded that are not compliant. I can pretty much assure you that failure to use a checklist will result in a MINIMUM 15% - 20% loss of credit. Each semester I return several assignments with a zero for failure to follow instructions.
Please attend to each of the following:
- Your name is on your assignment
- Your assignment workbook has the proper name (Lnfml.xxx)
- First worksheet page of your workbook is the answer sheet
- There are not ANY blank worksheets in the workbook
- Each and every worksheet tab is named in a logical manner AND appears in a logical order
- Problems are numbered exactly as assigned
- The work (and any necessary assumptions) to derive all solutions is apparent
- All answers are properly labeled
- Real numbers (represented by interval or ratio number scales) are properly rounded; categorical integers very rarely require any decimal places
- Statistics are properly rounded
- Graphs have an appropriate main title
- Graphs have appropriate axis titles (plus units of measure & tick labels)
- Delete unnecessary/misleading graph legends
- Check your work very, very carefully
- Remember to attach your workbook to your e-mail
- only your first submission will be graded; follow-ups to any given assignment will be discarded
- Check that you receive my confirmation for your submission
- After the key is posted, check your work against the key and make sure that you understand why the correct answers are correct
Please avoid:
- putting any assignment details in the body of your e-mail
- using multiple attachments unless instructed
- asking for permission that your assignment to be accepted after due date
Please consider:
- buying and USING an Excel self-help reference book
- trying to better your Excel understanding by taking an AU offered Excel course
- asking for assistance before it gets to be too late
- solving more problems than are assigned for weekly submission
Extreme Penalties: any one of the following will result in a returned & un-graded assignment
- anything other than a single, properly named Excel attachment
- a missing answer sheet or carbon of worksheets substituted for answers
- missing worksheets
- blank worksheets and/or un-named worksheet tabs
- problems are numbered differently than assigned
- order of problem solution is different than assigned
- order of worksheets is different than order of assigned problems
- no Excel work is shown for a problem requiring mathematical formula and/or technical graphics, and/or reasoning, stipulations, or assumptions
- text or graphics transcending 8.5 x 11.0 inch PORTRAIT-view page breaks (see example)
- font smaller than 10 point
- any altered scaling of display page other than 100% scaling
- landscape rather than portrait view
Some of the instruction on this page is brief, if not cryptic and I do not blame you at all if you want more explanation - however, it is in your best interest to ask for clarification as soon as possible. I do not mind dedicating as much explanation as you want, but I want to stress that it is incumbent on you to ask. If you prefer to have private clarification to any questions, I encourage that method as well. Also, please see if you can get an orientation to my expectations from viewing the example assignment solution.
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