LABORATORY REPORT GRADING POlICY
ROBERT J. SHINE
SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

1. A lab report is due one week after the completion of an experiment 
unless you are told otherwise via an email message.
2. The format of a lab report is presented in the Week 1 section of the 
lab manual.
3. If you are absent from a lab session, please email me 
(bshine@ramapo.edu) as soon as possible to discuss an alternate report 
topic.
4. A report will be graded as follows:
	a. The lab report grade will be some number between 0 (report not 
submitted) and 100 (report was truly excellent in all ways).
	b. A final lab exam will be given at the last lab session (see 
schedule on web page) and this test result will count as two lab report 
grades.
	c. All lab report grades and the lab test (counted twice) will be 
averaged to obtain your lab course grade.
	d. This lab course grade number will be converted to a letter 
grade as follows and will be then sent to your lecture Instructor to be 
included in your final overall course grade:
		A	94-100
		A-	91-93.99
		B+	88-90.99
		B	85-87.99
		B-	81-84.99
		C+	78-80.99
		C	75-77.99
		C-	71-74.99
		D	68-70.99
		F	below 68
5. The following criteria will be used in determining the report grade:
	a. The submitted report will be asigned an initial grade of 90 if 
submited on time.  A starting grade of 80 will be used if the report is 
submitted late.  Please note that no reports will be accepted after two 
weeks from the lab experiment date.
	b. The most important sections of the report are the abstract, 
results and discussion section.
	c. At intervals in the report a running score will be noted with 
some brief comments to give some indication of how the final report grade 
will be justified.  A + and - sign will be used throughout the report to 
indicate the strong and weak sections.

Any questions or comments about this policy will be discussed at various 
lab sessions throughout the semester.  Important modifications and 
clarifications will be published via email messages.

Robert Shine
September 26, 2009