Petition Letter
Dear Dean,
This is a complaint on an instructor¿¿s decisions on grading my Test 4, in CISC 204, 2018 Fall. The instructor of that course is Dr. Randy Ellis. I have tried contacting the teaching assistants, the instructor, and the Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Mr. Lamb. I am applying an academic appeal because the instructor is not available and it has been 24 days since the grade of Test 4 was released. I think the sooner the better.
The correction of that marking decision could result in a 15 change in my grade in that test. Beside that one, there¿¿s another trivial marking mistake but I am not asking to revise that part since it will not result a change in my overall grade letter in this course.
The problem is with Question 1, part a). It should be ¿part b)¿¿ but I believe a typo was made so there are two ¿part a)¿¿s on that page. I am referring to the second ¿part a)¿¿.
I have talked to several teaching assistants, their comments were ¿¿the person who marked your paper misread the empty sign as Greek symbol phi¿. This is the response from one of the TAs:
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I however did talk to Brandon (head TA). He agrees there are marking inconsistencies with your test.
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The instructor, however, refused to consider remarking as an option. Because I did not go through the formal application for regrading, and I contacted the teaching assistants at the night of the last day to apply for a regrading, there was no time for me to submit my regrade form unfortunately.
Apart from Test 4, I have a complaint about the regrading decisions on my Test 3. I consulted with over half of the teaching assistant team, every one of them agreed that a regrading will improve my mark. Surprisingly, I got even more mark off from that regrading by the instructor. The reason was ¿¿muddled thinking¿. This means my test paper was marked/regraded extremely inconsistently with the rest of the class.
The instructor is currently away from campus. I was not able to make contact with him. I hope I can get a fair mark from that test.
Yours sincerely,
Yifei Yin
This is a complaint on an instructor¿¿s decisions on grading my Test 4, in CISC 204, 2018 Fall. The instructor of that course is Dr. Randy Ellis. I have tried contacting the teaching assistants, the instructor, and the Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Mr. Lamb. I am applying an academic appeal because the instructor is not available and it has been 24 days since the grade of Test 4 was released. I think the sooner the better.
The correction of that marking decision could result in a 15 change in my grade in that test. Beside that one, there¿¿s another trivial marking mistake but I am not asking to revise that part since it will not result a change in my overall grade letter in this course.
The problem is with Question 1, part a). It should be ¿part b)¿¿ but I believe a typo was made so there are two ¿part a)¿¿s on that page. I am referring to the second ¿part a)¿¿.
I have talked to several teaching assistants, their comments were ¿¿the person who marked your paper misread the empty sign as Greek symbol phi¿. This is the response from one of the TAs:
¿¿
I however did talk to Brandon (head TA). He agrees there are marking inconsistencies with your test.
¿
The instructor, however, refused to consider remarking as an option. Because I did not go through the formal application for regrading, and I contacted the teaching assistants at the night of the last day to apply for a regrading, there was no time for me to submit my regrade form unfortunately.
Apart from Test 4, I have a complaint about the regrading decisions on my Test 3. I consulted with over half of the teaching assistant team, every one of them agreed that a regrading will improve my mark. Surprisingly, I got even more mark off from that regrading by the instructor. The reason was ¿¿muddled thinking¿. This means my test paper was marked/regraded extremely inconsistently with the rest of the class.
The instructor is currently away from campus. I was not able to make contact with him. I hope I can get a fair mark from that test.
Yours sincerely,
Yifei Yin