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In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.950428180525.5191A-100000@Kay-Abernathy.tenet.edu> "Keith C. Tipton" <kctipton@TENET.EDU> writes:

>When a kid misses a lab, how do you handle makeups?  I have kids who miss
>and can't reschedule for a while.  It's a pain to keep equipment around,
>but I generally refuse for a kid to copy data and get a grade essentially
>equal to that of a kid who was really present.  In my case it is
>important at the end of the year for the kids to have ALL labs accounted
>for in their notebook, so....

I typically just keep the equipment around, putting all away except one 
setup.  Then the studentgets a deadline for making it up, and usually an 
appointment for a particulary day and time is set. If they miss it, they're 
out of luck;the equipment gets put away and they're out a lab.  Students 
don't generally believe that at first, but it doesn't take too long before 
they find that, gee, they can actually make it in sooner after all.  :)

But then it depends on the nature of the lab, and there might be other reasons 
that doing the actual lab itself may be impractical. In these cases where 
worse does in fact come to worse I'll resort to >gasp< simulating the lab 
using Interactive Physics II .  But I avoid this if I can.


  Matt Tuley                                              tuley@csn.org

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