Fall 2019 Policies Quiz

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Satisfactory completion of the quiz requires a total of 9 points (1 point per question) and is required to attend the Fall 2019 TA Orientation. You're allowed several attempts. The deadline for quiz completion is Monday, August 19, 2019 at 11:59 pm EST.

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You receive an angry email from the father of one of your students demanding to know why you gave his daughter a C on her paper. He asks you to email him a list of all of the grades she has earned in your class, so that he can calculate what grade she’ll need to get on the final exam in order to maintain her 3.8 GPA. You should…

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…ask the student if it would be ok for you to email her grades to her father.

…email him all of the student’s grades.

…call the Office of Academic Budget and Personnel for guidance at 305-348-2168.

…ignore the email.

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A professor has a stack of term papers for students to pick up. Is it acceptable to leave the papers in a location where students can look through the stack to locate their own paper?

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Yes

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You receive a call from the police asking for a student's class schedule for the current term. They are investigating a crime. Can you give them the information?

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Yes

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Your department head asks for a list of names and addresses for students who are enrolled in a specific course in the department. The addresses will be used to mail a survey about the quality of the course. Results of the survey will be used to improve the course. Is this an appropriate use of student records?

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Yes

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A parent calls to ask how his son or daughter is doing in class. The student's directory information has not been suppressed. Can you give the parent information about the student's grades?

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Yes

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Early in the semester, you receive notification from FIU’s Disability Resource Center indicating that one of the students enrolled in your class has a disability. Looking ahead to the upcoming exam, you decide to…

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...do nothing. It would be unfair to other students were you to offer any accommodations.

…proceed in the way advised by the Disability Resource Center, offering only those arrangements that this office has specified as appropriate and necessary.

…tell the student that you will grant him/her an extra half hour to complete the exam.

…ask the student what accommodation he/she would like to have to facilitate test-taking.

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While fulfilling your TA responsibility of grading essays for the course professor, you come across one that seems too good to be true: The vocabulary is sophisticated; the sentences are beautifully written; and the ideas are brilliant. You immediately suspect that it has been plagiarized. You decide to…

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…discuss the matter with the professor.

…re-read the essay closely, looking for attempts to credit sources.

…ask the student to re-write the essay because you suspect the one he/she turned in was plagiarized.

…use software such as turnitin.com to determine whether the essay was plagiarized.

…talk to the student about your suspicion.

…give the essay a failing grade.

…a., b., d. and e.

…give the paper a “C-”

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An unauthorized person obtains private student information from a computer screen that was left unattended. Is this a violation of FERPA?

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Yes

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You meet an attractive undergraduate FIU student, and during your conversation, you learn that he/she is single, that you have many things in common—and one more thing, that the student is taking “Intro to ___,” the class you are TA-ing this semester. What should you do?

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Stop flirting. This could lead to a lot of trouble for you and for FIU.

Ask the professor for permission to date the student.

Start dating the student and ask him/her not to tell anyone about the relationship.

Keep flirting. You’ve been single for too long and have finally met a nice person. It’s a big class, so no one will find out.

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