HFIT-565
Assessment & Evaluation of Health Fitness Parameters
Fall Semester 2009
Dr. Marc Schaeffer
Grades as of 17 September
The above table reflects scores through assignment #3. I encourage you to verify that the scores displayed agree with the scores on your returned assignments (all scores in the table have been rounded to the nearest unit). At this moment, your assignment average (yellow highlighting, labeled Max) is your highest score because of dropping the two lowest assignments (i.e., the two shaded values on your row). Presently, at least on the average, many of you are displaying an assignment mean that is a bit contrived. Please accept the current situation for the mathematical phenomenon that it is. We will have approximately 12 total assignments during the semester and your assignment average will probably end up varying at least a little from your current average. Although the assignment average at the end of this course is typically between 85 and 87, the final grade average is in the 82 - 85 range. The distribution of course grades across all years is a nearly normal distribution, and isn't that some sort of remarkable coincidence? Please note that almost everyone is showing their first assignment as their highest score, and also please recall that nearly all received a 10% bonus on that assignment. I am assuming that I need not connect any more dots for you so that you do not become too overconfident. Thus, please do feel some satisfaction, if you wish, but please do NOT become complacent. If you are inclined to expose yourself to a bit of a reality check, I have computed and displayed your average across all three scores, and this is the column of the table entitle Mean. Although some of you will probably maintain an assignment average as displayed in the yellow column, most of you will approximate your corresponding Mean value as we progress through the semester. In a lecture in the near future, you will be able to associate this phenomenon with the concept known as regression to the mean.
