I lost my students' quizzes due to thievery, what should I do?

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I am a teacher assistant for a big course and I am expected to conduct weekly quizzes. Last week, my bag containing a week's worth of quizzes got stolen. My question is what should I tell my students and is there a fair way to make it up to them?










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          Report it to the police. Report it to the department.



          You don't have anything that requires making up to the students. Of course you should be fair to them and not let this hurt them (e.g., no grade for this quiz, but allow students to take an optional alternative assignment to take its place).






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          • Student time is not valueless. A difficult quiz to a large class can amount to 100+ hours loss. At the very least they need an apology.
            – famargar
            6 mins ago










          • @famargar just because they didn’t get a grade doesn’t make it valueless. They hopefully learned a lot while preparing for it. You aren’t obligated to provide a grade for everything (though feedback is certainly helpful when possible).
            – Austin Henley
            3 mins ago










          • I agree with first part and strongly disagree with the other: what is a quiz without a grade? A graded quiz is a mutual agreement that the student puts the completion work and the teacher the grading work.
            – famargar
            1 min ago

















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          Ups - that doesn't sound good. You should definitely report it to your administration and maybe there are established procedures for such cases.



          Furthermore, you should not re-use any of the questions in this test in this or later courses.



          One could assume, that one of the students stole the bag to avoid a bad grade, but I would recommend to assume some random person stole it - it helps in keeping a good relationship to your students.



          To come to your relevant question: Is there a fair way to make it up to them? - Maybe not. If you just don't count the test, a good result of student A would not count towards the final grade. On the other hand, if you force them to repeat the test, student A might perform worse then before, and student B might perform better - which would be unfair as well.



          I would do the following: Tell the students about the situation. Tell them, if the bag returns (maybe the thief throws the exams away since they are worthless), wou will return the results as soon as possible. Otherwise, don't include the test in the final grade.



          If you want to give a bonus: Offer them that they may repeat the test if they want, but if they don't, it just does not count.






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            As an undergraduate I had a professor who kept a rather messy office, with papers piled everywhere. One day he came into lecture looking quite embarrassed. It was a day to turn back the graded homework from the previous week.



            Well, it turns out that his desk was so messy that the only 'open' place to put the pile of graded homework to give back to us was to stack it on the edge of his office trash can. You can guess what happened - yup, the helpful janitor folk came by and took out the trash, including the stack of homework.



            He took the blame (and a little ribbing), and gave us all an A for the assignment. He also cleaned up his office a bit...



            In your case, it isn't your fault, but I would just punt on the quiz and give everyone either an A, or don't count it.






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              Not had a bag stolen, but lost a quiz (online system), best thing is tell the students directly that it happened and you will deal with the grades appropriately.



              What is "appropriate" may need to be checked with the dept. head etc but once the students know you are on the case and are fair to all, it works out fine...






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                Report it to the department. Apologise to the students.



                You don’t do much harm to collect one less data point on their score - unless there is a very small number of quizzes - all it does is to reduce the variability of the data.
                In other words, a bad student can make one or two very good quizzes, not ten. Say you have ten quizzes. If you loose one the precision of your algorithm is reduced by sqrt(10/9) that is almost nothing.



                The students will not understand this and will feel cheated because their 2-hour effort vanished in the wind. All you can do is to apologise.






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                • their 2-hour effort --- Since these are WEEKLY quizzes, I would imagine the effort is more along the lines of 10 minutes, unless you're counting preparation time, in which case your assessment of how long students spend preparing for a short weekly quiz is longer by a factor of 3 or 4 than has been my experience.
                  – Dave L Renfro
                  30 mins ago










                • The size of apologies should be proportional to the time they put into it (and that does not include preparation). Mine were between one and two hours
                  – famargar
                  13 mins ago










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                Report it to the police. Report it to the department.



                You don't have anything that requires making up to the students. Of course you should be fair to them and not let this hurt them (e.g., no grade for this quiz, but allow students to take an optional alternative assignment to take its place).






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                • Student time is not valueless. A difficult quiz to a large class can amount to 100+ hours loss. At the very least they need an apology.
                  – famargar
                  6 mins ago










                • @famargar just because they didn’t get a grade doesn’t make it valueless. They hopefully learned a lot while preparing for it. You aren’t obligated to provide a grade for everything (though feedback is certainly helpful when possible).
                  – Austin Henley
                  3 mins ago










                • I agree with first part and strongly disagree with the other: what is a quiz without a grade? A graded quiz is a mutual agreement that the student puts the completion work and the teacher the grading work.
                  – famargar
                  1 min ago














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                Report it to the police. Report it to the department.



                You don't have anything that requires making up to the students. Of course you should be fair to them and not let this hurt them (e.g., no grade for this quiz, but allow students to take an optional alternative assignment to take its place).






                share|improve this answer




















                • Student time is not valueless. A difficult quiz to a large class can amount to 100+ hours loss. At the very least they need an apology.
                  – famargar
                  6 mins ago










                • @famargar just because they didn’t get a grade doesn’t make it valueless. They hopefully learned a lot while preparing for it. You aren’t obligated to provide a grade for everything (though feedback is certainly helpful when possible).
                  – Austin Henley
                  3 mins ago










                • I agree with first part and strongly disagree with the other: what is a quiz without a grade? A graded quiz is a mutual agreement that the student puts the completion work and the teacher the grading work.
                  – famargar
                  1 min ago












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                Report it to the police. Report it to the department.



                You don't have anything that requires making up to the students. Of course you should be fair to them and not let this hurt them (e.g., no grade for this quiz, but allow students to take an optional alternative assignment to take its place).






                share|improve this answer












                Report it to the police. Report it to the department.



                You don't have anything that requires making up to the students. Of course you should be fair to them and not let this hurt them (e.g., no grade for this quiz, but allow students to take an optional alternative assignment to take its place).







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                • Student time is not valueless. A difficult quiz to a large class can amount to 100+ hours loss. At the very least they need an apology.
                  – famargar
                  6 mins ago










                • @famargar just because they didn’t get a grade doesn’t make it valueless. They hopefully learned a lot while preparing for it. You aren’t obligated to provide a grade for everything (though feedback is certainly helpful when possible).
                  – Austin Henley
                  3 mins ago










                • I agree with first part and strongly disagree with the other: what is a quiz without a grade? A graded quiz is a mutual agreement that the student puts the completion work and the teacher the grading work.
                  – famargar
                  1 min ago
















                • Student time is not valueless. A difficult quiz to a large class can amount to 100+ hours loss. At the very least they need an apology.
                  – famargar
                  6 mins ago










                • @famargar just because they didn’t get a grade doesn’t make it valueless. They hopefully learned a lot while preparing for it. You aren’t obligated to provide a grade for everything (though feedback is certainly helpful when possible).
                  – Austin Henley
                  3 mins ago










                • I agree with first part and strongly disagree with the other: what is a quiz without a grade? A graded quiz is a mutual agreement that the student puts the completion work and the teacher the grading work.
                  – famargar
                  1 min ago















                Student time is not valueless. A difficult quiz to a large class can amount to 100+ hours loss. At the very least they need an apology.
                – famargar
                6 mins ago




                Student time is not valueless. A difficult quiz to a large class can amount to 100+ hours loss. At the very least they need an apology.
                – famargar
                6 mins ago












                @famargar just because they didn’t get a grade doesn’t make it valueless. They hopefully learned a lot while preparing for it. You aren’t obligated to provide a grade for everything (though feedback is certainly helpful when possible).
                – Austin Henley
                3 mins ago




                @famargar just because they didn’t get a grade doesn’t make it valueless. They hopefully learned a lot while preparing for it. You aren’t obligated to provide a grade for everything (though feedback is certainly helpful when possible).
                – Austin Henley
                3 mins ago












                I agree with first part and strongly disagree with the other: what is a quiz without a grade? A graded quiz is a mutual agreement that the student puts the completion work and the teacher the grading work.
                – famargar
                1 min ago




                I agree with first part and strongly disagree with the other: what is a quiz without a grade? A graded quiz is a mutual agreement that the student puts the completion work and the teacher the grading work.
                – famargar
                1 min ago










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                Ups - that doesn't sound good. You should definitely report it to your administration and maybe there are established procedures for such cases.



                Furthermore, you should not re-use any of the questions in this test in this or later courses.



                One could assume, that one of the students stole the bag to avoid a bad grade, but I would recommend to assume some random person stole it - it helps in keeping a good relationship to your students.



                To come to your relevant question: Is there a fair way to make it up to them? - Maybe not. If you just don't count the test, a good result of student A would not count towards the final grade. On the other hand, if you force them to repeat the test, student A might perform worse then before, and student B might perform better - which would be unfair as well.



                I would do the following: Tell the students about the situation. Tell them, if the bag returns (maybe the thief throws the exams away since they are worthless), wou will return the results as soon as possible. Otherwise, don't include the test in the final grade.



                If you want to give a bonus: Offer them that they may repeat the test if they want, but if they don't, it just does not count.






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                  Ups - that doesn't sound good. You should definitely report it to your administration and maybe there are established procedures for such cases.



                  Furthermore, you should not re-use any of the questions in this test in this or later courses.



                  One could assume, that one of the students stole the bag to avoid a bad grade, but I would recommend to assume some random person stole it - it helps in keeping a good relationship to your students.



                  To come to your relevant question: Is there a fair way to make it up to them? - Maybe not. If you just don't count the test, a good result of student A would not count towards the final grade. On the other hand, if you force them to repeat the test, student A might perform worse then before, and student B might perform better - which would be unfair as well.



                  I would do the following: Tell the students about the situation. Tell them, if the bag returns (maybe the thief throws the exams away since they are worthless), wou will return the results as soon as possible. Otherwise, don't include the test in the final grade.



                  If you want to give a bonus: Offer them that they may repeat the test if they want, but if they don't, it just does not count.






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                    up vote
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                    up vote
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                    Ups - that doesn't sound good. You should definitely report it to your administration and maybe there are established procedures for such cases.



                    Furthermore, you should not re-use any of the questions in this test in this or later courses.



                    One could assume, that one of the students stole the bag to avoid a bad grade, but I would recommend to assume some random person stole it - it helps in keeping a good relationship to your students.



                    To come to your relevant question: Is there a fair way to make it up to them? - Maybe not. If you just don't count the test, a good result of student A would not count towards the final grade. On the other hand, if you force them to repeat the test, student A might perform worse then before, and student B might perform better - which would be unfair as well.



                    I would do the following: Tell the students about the situation. Tell them, if the bag returns (maybe the thief throws the exams away since they are worthless), wou will return the results as soon as possible. Otherwise, don't include the test in the final grade.



                    If you want to give a bonus: Offer them that they may repeat the test if they want, but if they don't, it just does not count.






                    share|improve this answer












                    Ups - that doesn't sound good. You should definitely report it to your administration and maybe there are established procedures for such cases.



                    Furthermore, you should not re-use any of the questions in this test in this or later courses.



                    One could assume, that one of the students stole the bag to avoid a bad grade, but I would recommend to assume some random person stole it - it helps in keeping a good relationship to your students.



                    To come to your relevant question: Is there a fair way to make it up to them? - Maybe not. If you just don't count the test, a good result of student A would not count towards the final grade. On the other hand, if you force them to repeat the test, student A might perform worse then before, and student B might perform better - which would be unfair as well.



                    I would do the following: Tell the students about the situation. Tell them, if the bag returns (maybe the thief throws the exams away since they are worthless), wou will return the results as soon as possible. Otherwise, don't include the test in the final grade.



                    If you want to give a bonus: Offer them that they may repeat the test if they want, but if they don't, it just does not count.







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                        As an undergraduate I had a professor who kept a rather messy office, with papers piled everywhere. One day he came into lecture looking quite embarrassed. It was a day to turn back the graded homework from the previous week.



                        Well, it turns out that his desk was so messy that the only 'open' place to put the pile of graded homework to give back to us was to stack it on the edge of his office trash can. You can guess what happened - yup, the helpful janitor folk came by and took out the trash, including the stack of homework.



                        He took the blame (and a little ribbing), and gave us all an A for the assignment. He also cleaned up his office a bit...



                        In your case, it isn't your fault, but I would just punt on the quiz and give everyone either an A, or don't count it.






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                          As an undergraduate I had a professor who kept a rather messy office, with papers piled everywhere. One day he came into lecture looking quite embarrassed. It was a day to turn back the graded homework from the previous week.



                          Well, it turns out that his desk was so messy that the only 'open' place to put the pile of graded homework to give back to us was to stack it on the edge of his office trash can. You can guess what happened - yup, the helpful janitor folk came by and took out the trash, including the stack of homework.



                          He took the blame (and a little ribbing), and gave us all an A for the assignment. He also cleaned up his office a bit...



                          In your case, it isn't your fault, but I would just punt on the quiz and give everyone either an A, or don't count it.






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                            up vote
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                            As an undergraduate I had a professor who kept a rather messy office, with papers piled everywhere. One day he came into lecture looking quite embarrassed. It was a day to turn back the graded homework from the previous week.



                            Well, it turns out that his desk was so messy that the only 'open' place to put the pile of graded homework to give back to us was to stack it on the edge of his office trash can. You can guess what happened - yup, the helpful janitor folk came by and took out the trash, including the stack of homework.



                            He took the blame (and a little ribbing), and gave us all an A for the assignment. He also cleaned up his office a bit...



                            In your case, it isn't your fault, but I would just punt on the quiz and give everyone either an A, or don't count it.






                            share|improve this answer












                            As an undergraduate I had a professor who kept a rather messy office, with papers piled everywhere. One day he came into lecture looking quite embarrassed. It was a day to turn back the graded homework from the previous week.



                            Well, it turns out that his desk was so messy that the only 'open' place to put the pile of graded homework to give back to us was to stack it on the edge of his office trash can. You can guess what happened - yup, the helpful janitor folk came by and took out the trash, including the stack of homework.



                            He took the blame (and a little ribbing), and gave us all an A for the assignment. He also cleaned up his office a bit...



                            In your case, it isn't your fault, but I would just punt on the quiz and give everyone either an A, or don't count it.







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                                Not had a bag stolen, but lost a quiz (online system), best thing is tell the students directly that it happened and you will deal with the grades appropriately.



                                What is "appropriate" may need to be checked with the dept. head etc but once the students know you are on the case and are fair to all, it works out fine...






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                                  up vote
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                                  Not had a bag stolen, but lost a quiz (online system), best thing is tell the students directly that it happened and you will deal with the grades appropriately.



                                  What is "appropriate" may need to be checked with the dept. head etc but once the students know you are on the case and are fair to all, it works out fine...






                                  share|improve this answer






















                                    up vote
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                                    up vote
                                    1
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                                    Not had a bag stolen, but lost a quiz (online system), best thing is tell the students directly that it happened and you will deal with the grades appropriately.



                                    What is "appropriate" may need to be checked with the dept. head etc but once the students know you are on the case and are fair to all, it works out fine...






                                    share|improve this answer












                                    Not had a bag stolen, but lost a quiz (online system), best thing is tell the students directly that it happened and you will deal with the grades appropriately.



                                    What is "appropriate" may need to be checked with the dept. head etc but once the students know you are on the case and are fair to all, it works out fine...







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                                    Solar Mike

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                                        Report it to the department. Apologise to the students.



                                        You don’t do much harm to collect one less data point on their score - unless there is a very small number of quizzes - all it does is to reduce the variability of the data.
                                        In other words, a bad student can make one or two very good quizzes, not ten. Say you have ten quizzes. If you loose one the precision of your algorithm is reduced by sqrt(10/9) that is almost nothing.



                                        The students will not understand this and will feel cheated because their 2-hour effort vanished in the wind. All you can do is to apologise.






                                        share|improve this answer




















                                        • their 2-hour effort --- Since these are WEEKLY quizzes, I would imagine the effort is more along the lines of 10 minutes, unless you're counting preparation time, in which case your assessment of how long students spend preparing for a short weekly quiz is longer by a factor of 3 or 4 than has been my experience.
                                          – Dave L Renfro
                                          30 mins ago










                                        • The size of apologies should be proportional to the time they put into it (and that does not include preparation). Mine were between one and two hours
                                          – famargar
                                          13 mins ago














                                        up vote
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                                        Report it to the department. Apologise to the students.



                                        You don’t do much harm to collect one less data point on their score - unless there is a very small number of quizzes - all it does is to reduce the variability of the data.
                                        In other words, a bad student can make one or two very good quizzes, not ten. Say you have ten quizzes. If you loose one the precision of your algorithm is reduced by sqrt(10/9) that is almost nothing.



                                        The students will not understand this and will feel cheated because their 2-hour effort vanished in the wind. All you can do is to apologise.






                                        share|improve this answer




















                                        • their 2-hour effort --- Since these are WEEKLY quizzes, I would imagine the effort is more along the lines of 10 minutes, unless you're counting preparation time, in which case your assessment of how long students spend preparing for a short weekly quiz is longer by a factor of 3 or 4 than has been my experience.
                                          – Dave L Renfro
                                          30 mins ago










                                        • The size of apologies should be proportional to the time they put into it (and that does not include preparation). Mine were between one and two hours
                                          – famargar
                                          13 mins ago












                                        up vote
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                                        up vote
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                                        Report it to the department. Apologise to the students.



                                        You don’t do much harm to collect one less data point on their score - unless there is a very small number of quizzes - all it does is to reduce the variability of the data.
                                        In other words, a bad student can make one or two very good quizzes, not ten. Say you have ten quizzes. If you loose one the precision of your algorithm is reduced by sqrt(10/9) that is almost nothing.



                                        The students will not understand this and will feel cheated because their 2-hour effort vanished in the wind. All you can do is to apologise.






                                        share|improve this answer












                                        Report it to the department. Apologise to the students.



                                        You don’t do much harm to collect one less data point on their score - unless there is a very small number of quizzes - all it does is to reduce the variability of the data.
                                        In other words, a bad student can make one or two very good quizzes, not ten. Say you have ten quizzes. If you loose one the precision of your algorithm is reduced by sqrt(10/9) that is almost nothing.



                                        The students will not understand this and will feel cheated because their 2-hour effort vanished in the wind. All you can do is to apologise.







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                                        • their 2-hour effort --- Since these are WEEKLY quizzes, I would imagine the effort is more along the lines of 10 minutes, unless you're counting preparation time, in which case your assessment of how long students spend preparing for a short weekly quiz is longer by a factor of 3 or 4 than has been my experience.
                                          – Dave L Renfro
                                          30 mins ago










                                        • The size of apologies should be proportional to the time they put into it (and that does not include preparation). Mine were between one and two hours
                                          – famargar
                                          13 mins ago
















                                        • their 2-hour effort --- Since these are WEEKLY quizzes, I would imagine the effort is more along the lines of 10 minutes, unless you're counting preparation time, in which case your assessment of how long students spend preparing for a short weekly quiz is longer by a factor of 3 or 4 than has been my experience.
                                          – Dave L Renfro
                                          30 mins ago










                                        • The size of apologies should be proportional to the time they put into it (and that does not include preparation). Mine were between one and two hours
                                          – famargar
                                          13 mins ago















                                        their 2-hour effort --- Since these are WEEKLY quizzes, I would imagine the effort is more along the lines of 10 minutes, unless you're counting preparation time, in which case your assessment of how long students spend preparing for a short weekly quiz is longer by a factor of 3 or 4 than has been my experience.
                                        – Dave L Renfro
                                        30 mins ago




                                        their 2-hour effort --- Since these are WEEKLY quizzes, I would imagine the effort is more along the lines of 10 minutes, unless you're counting preparation time, in which case your assessment of how long students spend preparing for a short weekly quiz is longer by a factor of 3 or 4 than has been my experience.
                                        – Dave L Renfro
                                        30 mins ago












                                        The size of apologies should be proportional to the time they put into it (and that does not include preparation). Mine were between one and two hours
                                        – famargar
                                        13 mins ago




                                        The size of apologies should be proportional to the time they put into it (and that does not include preparation). Mine were between one and two hours
                                        – famargar
                                        13 mins ago










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