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==Purpose== | ==Purpose== | ||
<p style="margin-bottom:15px; max-width:70em !important;">Establishes criteria for awarding grades, quality points, | <p style="margin-bottom:15px; max-width:70em !important;">Establishes criteria for awarding grades, quality points, pass/fail, withdrawal and incomplete.</p> | ||
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<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">For clinical courses, the following criteria apply: | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">For clinical courses, the following criteria apply: | ||
The faculty will assign the student’s grade by evaluating the student’s performance according | The faculty will assign the student’s grade by evaluating the student’s performance according | ||
to the critical clinical behaviors for each course.<br /><br />A student | to the critical clinical behaviors for each course.<br /><br />A student that faculty deems is unprepared or unsafe will be required to leave the clinical setting and enter into a remediation plan until they are deemed prepared to return to the clinical setting.<br /><br />The student may be removed for a short duration or the rest of the semester. A student not able to return and to complete the critical clinical behaviors before the end of the semester will receive a fail for the clinical course.</li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The grade of | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The grade of incomplete is awarded according to guidelines set forth in Policy 2228 - Undergraduate Grade of Incomplete.</li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">For courses in which theory and clinical are combined, clinical laboratory performance is rated on a | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">For courses in which theory and clinical are combined, clinical laboratory performance is rated on a pass/fail basis. A rating of fail in clinical laboratory performance results in a D in the course unless the theory grade is an F. If the clinical laboratory performance is pass the grade awarded for the course will be based upon the theory grade.</li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">For courses with only a clinical component, clinical laboratory performance is rated on a | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">For courses with only a clinical component, clinical laboratory performance is rated on a pass/fail basis. A rating of pass in clinical performance results in a P in the course. A rating of fail in clinical laboratory performance results in an F in the course.</li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;"> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Withdraw or incomplete grades are indicated as follows:<br /><br /> | ||
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<td valign="top" width="30px">W -</td> | <td valign="top" width="30px">W -</td> | ||
<td width="20px"> </td> | <td width="20px"> </td> | ||
<td>Students who drop a course after the first seven calendar days of the term will receive a grade of W on their transcript. Students may not drop a course after 70% of the course has been completed. A grade other than W must be assigned.</td> | <td>Withdraw - Students who drop a course after the first seven calendar days of the term will receive a grade of W on their transcript. Students may not drop a course after 70% of the course has been completed. A grade other than W must be assigned.</td> | ||
</tr> | </tr> | ||
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<td valign="top" width="30px">I -</td> | <td valign="top" width="30px">I -</td> | ||
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<td>Incomplete | <td>Incomplete - (Grade average is not affected until the incomplete has been removed. Students have one semester to remove the incomplete grade or the I reverts to an F. Refer to current UNMC Catalog Student Policies and Procedures section for additional guidelines regarding incomplete grades.)</td> | ||
</tr> | </tr> | ||
</table> | </table> | ||