General Chemistry 1 Midterm Exam

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DiscussionSection (DS) will be in person, at the scheduled time on Tuesdays (Sect B) and Tuesdays (Sect A) and at the location listed in your course schedule as "QZ". In person participation in DSs is part of your grade. In person DSs will not be recorded. See the Policies page for Discussion Section absence policies.

DS in Week 2: Your TA will describe the purpose, structure, and grading policy of DS in detail, then you will split up into groups to complete worksheet problems relevant to content covered in Lessons 1.1-1.2. DS in Week 2 will not be graded.

DS in Weeks 3-11: You will work in small groups on worksheet problems relevant to content covered since the previous DS. DSs in Weeks 3-11 will be graded on participation. Your two lowest DS scores over the term will be dropped.

All TAs will offer Help Sessions in the Chemistry Study Center, BAG 330. See the "Get Help!" Canvas module for the schedule. You may attend any and all TA help sessions! This means that you can get MULTIPLE hours per week of live help from TAs. The TAs can help you with pre-labs, data analysis, lab write-ups, and course content.

If you would like to schedule a time to speak with me privately, I am happy to meet with you! I schedule student meetings in 15-minute blocks. Meetings can be held either in person or on Zoom. When you contact me to set up a meeting, please follow these steps:

If you're sick (with anything!) or have received a positive COVID test, do not come to class, even if it is on an exam day. The Chemistry Department has a generous sick leave policy. You can request an excused absence at the Chemistry Department Absence Reporting Form. If you're feeling sick, please stay home and take your first opportunity to get tested.

Your experience in this class is important to us, and it is the policy and practice of the University of Washington to create inclusive and accessible learning environments consistent with federal and state law. Disability Resources for Students (DRS) offers resources and coordinates reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities. If you have not yet established services through DRS, but have a temporary or permanent disability that requires accommodations, you are welcome to contact DRS at 206-543-8924 or uw...@uw.edu or visit disability.uw.edu.

If you require accommodations in the laboratory (including assistants and/or interpreters), please contact the Undergraduate Services Director (Bagley 303D) in person during the first week of the quarter to discuss your accommodations. If you have accommodations related to lab report deadlines, follow the instructions on the Course Policies and Lab Info and Schedule pages of the Labs Canvas site PRIOR to your first lab for the quarter.

For the Preparation for General Chemistry and General Chemistry courses, it is the Department of Chemistry's practice to have students with exam accommodations take their exams in the DRS Testing Center. If you have already established accommodations with DRS, the information for the Alternative Testing Contract will be submitted to DRS via their online system. Questions regarding the online submission of the alternative testing request and contract should be directed to the Disability Resources for Students Office (uw...@uw.edu, MGH 011).

Students with exam accommodations are solely responsible for scheduling the exams with DRS well in advance of the exam dates. Since the testing center has a limited capacity, please be sure to schedule ALL of your chemistry exams (including the final exam!) as early as possible in the quarter so that the DRS office can accommodate you.

Students who do not schedule far enough in advance to secure a testing reservation will need to take the exam in the classroom at the regular class time with the rest of the class, and will only be provided the standard time interval for completing the exam: 45 minutes for a midterm, and 100 minutes for the final.

There will be a Reading Quiz in advance of each class day for which you have an assigned reading. Each Reading Quiz will contain 5 questions worth 1 point each. The goal of the Reading Quizzes to is help bring your attention to important concepts and terminology in the chapter that we will build on during class. Reading Quizzes will be graded on accuracy, not merely on completion. You are encouraged to have your book open while you work on the questions, and to work with other CHEM 142 students! The lowest 4 Reading Quiz scores will be dropped, allowing you to miss a few without penalty.

Discussion section will be conducted in person during the regularly-scheduled discussion section time. To earn your participation credit, you must arrive on time and participate in good faith during the Discussion Section, not simply be in attendance. Each Discussion Section is graded out of 3 pts:

These surveys will guide you through a reflection on your exam preparation strategies, and an analysis of your performance and the strategies that work best for you in learning the material for this course. Engaging with the survey questions sincerely will help you build metacognition, a mental skill that allows you to keep track of which study habits work and which don't. There will be six Exam Reflection Surveys total: three Pre-Exam Reflections, and three Post-Exam Reflections, distributed throughout the quarter. (Note that there will not be a pre- or post-exam reflection for the final exam in this course.) Each Exam Reflection Survey is worth 2 pts. All Exam Reflection Surveys will count towards your score.

Your ALEKS grade is constructed from your objective scores and the percent of the pie you complete by the end of the quarter. The more of the pie you complete, the higher your ALEKS score will be, but you do not have to complete the entire pie to earn some credit for ALEKS. Similarly, you do not have to complete all the topics in an Objective to earn some credit. Whatever percentage of topics you complete by the due date will be your score for that Objective. The number of topics is not the same in every Objective; we endeavored to make your load lighter in weeks with a quiz. The Objective and Pie Mastery portions of your ALEKS grade are weighted equally. They each represent 6.5% of your overall course grade.

There are three midterm exams in this course. Each exam will focus on the most recent set of lessons, but chemistry knowledge is cumulative by nature, so the questions will often depend on knowledge from earlier chapters and prerequisite courses. Information about exam length, format, and coverage will be posted in the Exams module as each exam date nears. The dates for the exams are provided in the course schedule on Canvas.

The lowest score among the three midterm exams will be dropped. This drop policy encourages you to quarantine if you are sick, even if the quarantine period occurs on as exam day. Please do not come to class or to an exam if you are sick. If you have an excused absence on a midterm exam, your missed exam score will be replaced with your score on the final exam.

Exam keys will be available on Canvas after grading has been completed, except for the final exam which will not be published. Scores for the final exam will be posted in the Canvas gradebook. You may make an appointment with me next quarter to view your responses and grading details for the final exam.

Your scores for Participation, Lab, and Exams will be recorded using the Canvas Gradebook. Your ALEKS scores can be monitored through the Gradebook and Reports tabs on ALEKS. Your overall ALEKS grade will be imported to the Canvas Gradebook at the end of the quarter.

You are required to sign and submit an honor code statement for this course, in which you will affirm your acknowledgment of what constitutes academic misconduct in this course as defined below. Failure to adhere to this code of ethics will result in referral for possible disciplinary action as described in the Student Conduct Code.

Your submissions for ALL assignments (including but not limited to homework assignments, lab reports, quizzes, and exams) should be your own individual work unless you are explicitly told otherwise by your instructor.

You are strictly prohibited from sharing any content from ANY assignment (including but not limited to homework assignments, lab reports, quizzes, and exams) with any website or app (including but not limited to Discord, Chegg, Course Hero, and Snapchat) or any other course content repository (virtual OR physical) that is not explicitly approved by the instructor. This prohibition applies both during the quarter that you are taking this course and any time after the course ends.

During exams and/or quizzes, you may not seek out or accept any input from ANY other individual, whether or not they are a classmate. Further, you may not provide assistance to other students during the availability window for an exam or quiz unless an instructor explicitly allows for that collaboration.

It is presumed that the data you record and report in laboratory is your work. All data analysis and written/typed calculations and responses that you submit should be yours alone, even if you collected data with a laboratory partner. We often find examples of plagiarism in which lab reports are copied from someone else, or from an earlier quarter and examples of improper collaboration in which lab reports or portions of lab reports are posted or shared for other people to view.

An approximate schedule for the chapters to be covered each week is available in the Canvas calendar for this course. You are responsible for material covered in class AND in the textbook (whether or not it was covered in class). In class lessons will cover only highlights of the textbook material.

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