Homework assignments and Final presentation are two important parts of the class, each of which will give you 30% of the overall credit if you finish them all and submit them on time!
There will be a total of 9-10 homework assignments during the semester, each counting for ~ 3% of the total evaluation.
# Ecology Homework x, Author: your_name, Student ID: xxxxxxxxEach homework is evaluated on a scale between 0 to 100% in the following way:
Submit the homework on time, and it is correct: 100%, but it has some flaws, we will minus the following:
Submit the homework late, but is correct but late: 50%
Submit the homework on time, but it is wrong: 30%
Not submit the homework at all: 0%
Free to choose what topic you want to present, considering that it fits the following criteria:
Last two classes will be focused on these presentations and discussions. Half of the students will present the first and half the second class
Each presentation is very brief with exactly four slides (saved this talk in pdf)
After the section with talks, we will start a personal discussion. At that moment, you will be either presenter or reviewer. Each presenter will be evaluated by teachers and several other reviewers
Each presenter will sit with her/his computer at the table with an empty chair beside it, and reviewers will come for discussion. Each reviewer will have assigned presenters she/he has to visit, plus can visit some others and discuss.
As a presenter, you need to present your project and then be available for discussion
As a reviewer, you need to be present at the class for talks and for personal review
Prepare a presentation with exactly four slides:
Slide 1: Opening slide with the title of your presentation, your name (Chinese), your major and the year of the study
Slide 2: Brief introductory slide - what’s going on, what kind of data and what kind of problem/method
Slide 3: Results - what came out? (figures, numbers, or something else)
Slide 4: the highlights of the R script used for the presentation. The highlights may include important libraries and functions used in the script or important sections of the R code. Do not copy the whole R code!
Presentation slides, presentations and R code annotation should be in English
The presentation should take 3 minutes
Please check the pdf file; please, make sure you upload your slides and R code before the deadline!
R code should be fully reproducible, but it should be as tidy as possible.
Note that all presentations and all R codes will be made available to all students within the class!
The evaluation will consist of two equal parts: evaluation by classmates and evaluation by me. As a reviewer, you need to evaluate four criteria (presentation, idea, whether they understand their R code, and whether the R code is correct, tidy and clean, see below)
Rules for evaluation (max 30% of overall class score):
| items | criteria | scores |
|---|---|---|
| Presentation | Whether to relate, and whether to attract the attention. If not, leave blank. | 6% |
| Idea | How interesting is the idea, in your opinion? | 6% |
| R code | Whether and how the R code works, if clearly, is ok | 6% |
| R code correct, tidy & clean? | Can the script run, and is it reproducible? Is it free of mistakes? | 6% |
| Reviewing others | Doing and returning the review of 5 presenters assigned to you as reviewers | 6% |
| Total | 30% |