Has Anyone Ever Failed A Capstone Course?

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Those of you who have taken a capstone course through TESC or Excelsior: have you ever gotten a low score or failed a capstone course? At TESC you need a minimum of 60% to gain the credit for the course. As of today, I am still at 35% (though she still has to grade the Discussion Forum and the ETS).

I ask this because I was doing just fine with the course up until this morning, when my mentor sent back my latest assignment with a zero grade. She said she couldn't grade it until it was revised. It's good that she is giving me another chance, but it felt like a punch in the gut when I read her notes. I realized I have been sloppy with the survey and the sub-questions I posed.

She mentioned a survey should have at least ten questions; mine had three. But I don't think she'll have me go back and have my respondents retake a revised survey. It might be too late in the course to do that. I'll probably just get dinged for it, even though I hate that it will be.

I think her main problem was it wasn't formatted correctly. And no wonder. I discovered my survey questions were being used as my sub-questions in the chapter. I went back to the original sub-questions in Chapter 1, and the wording was very different! For some reason I had changed it. ::headdesk:: Not to mention, I hadn't provided the graphs for the demographic data I provided.

So, I am spending my morning in big time revisions of the chapter. I am also revising the survey in case she wants me to have them retake it.

I will talk to her tonight to have her clarify what she wants from this this assignment.