Introduction Computer Practicals

The name of the teacher of your practicum group will be announced at the start of the Basic Statistics course. When necessary, contact your teacher by email.

Attendance of the practicals is compulsory. The reason for this is, that this is the only way for us to make sure that you will acquire some basic statistical computer skills.

Your attendance of the computer practicals will be registered. Apart from attending them, you will also be required to participate actively in the practicals and to follow directions correctly; your teacher will assess your involvement and performance. For the sake of clarity: going on a winter sports holiday, waiting tables in a restaurant on an afternoon, attending a training for some match, or paying a visit to your parents, who live far away, is no excuse for missing a practicum. The course coordinator will only deviate from the rules in exceptional, distressing situations.

You will work on exercises in a fixed ‘team’ of two persons, as far as possible. Of course, you are expected to change places at the keyboard regularly. As a team, you shall save all edited files, preferably on your own Wageningen University & Research OneDrive; your teacher can ask you to show these files. Assignments shall be submitted according to your teacher’s directions.

You are not allowed to surf the internet, to chat, email, etc. during practicals, unless this is specifically required in the context of an assignment.

Contact your practicum teacher in case you cannot attend a computer practicum. In consultation with you, your teacher will look for an opportunity for you to make up for this practicum, possibly under supervision of different teacher.

You will get a pass for the computer practicals only if, according to your teacher, you have attended and actively participated in all practicals. The mark granted for the written examination will only be valid once your computer practicals, the attendance of which is compulsory, have resulted in a pass.

If you failed the computer practicals but passed the written examination, you will be awarded an ‘incomplete’ as mark; this mark will remain valid for 2 years. Contact the course coordinator, on how to fulfill the computer practicals requirement in order to finish the course and obtain the study credits. If you failed the written examination, you will be awarded that mark, no matter whether you passed the computer practical or not.