Class performance includes attendance, three assignments in the mini-project format, two quizzes, one extra credit assignment, one term project (research proposal), and participation. Check course schedule for the due dates.

Note: Without proper excuse, late assignments would get 5 points deducted per day after the due day.

Below gives details on the assignments grading distribution.

 

Assignments,Projects and Quizzes:

I. Assignments: (42% +5%)

Assignments	Content	Percent
Assignment 1	LIS Research Approaches and Publication Format	12%
Assignment 2	Survey Instrumentation: developing a questionnaire	15%
Assignment 3	Qualitative research method review and data coding scheme development of charts	15%
Assignment 4 (extra credit)	Descriptive and Inferential Statistics exercises using SPSS	5%

II. Quizzes: (23%)

a. Quiz 1 (Feb 21, 2005, from 8:00-9:20), (10%)
b. Quiz 2 (April 11, 2005, from 8:00-9:20), (13%)

III. Term Project: Developing a Research Proposal (25%)

During the semester, you will be learning to develop a research proposal on a topic that you have chosen and considered to be important to Library and Information Science Research. There will be informal reports of your proposal development status prior to the final presentation.
Details will be available on the project sheet.

IV. Participation (10%)

Attendance is expected for every class. This is an intensive class in research methods and students need to attend each session. In the un-aviodable event of an absence, students should inform the instructor and make arrangement to pick up lecture notes and handouts. The participation of the course includes class attendance, engaging in class discussion, and involvement in presentations and other in class activities.

Course Grading Scale

Grade	Credit	Score Range
A	4.0	95-100
A-	3.7	90-94
B+	3.3	86-89
B	3.0	83-85
B-	2.7	79-82
C+	2.3	75-78
C	2.0	71-74
C-	1.5	68-70
D	1.0	60-67
F	0	0-59