CHCS Student Handbook 2019-2020

196 Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences—Department of Physical Therapy 2019–2020 Grading Policies and Procedure Grading for physical therapy doctoral students is based on a scale of 0–100 percent. Some courses may be pass/fail. P or Pass 75 percent or above F or Fail below 75 percent Grading for all physical therapy courses is based on an alpha scale as shown. Alpha Grade A A- B+ B B- C+ C F P Percent 94–100 90–93 87–89 83–86 80–82 77–79 75–76 < 74 N/A Scale 4.0 3.7 3.3 3.0 2.7 2.3 2.0 0.0 0.0 Information regarding the calculation and disposition of a student’s final course grade is found in each course syllabus. At midterm, students will receive a midterm memo if the midterm course grade is less than 75 percent (less than C ). Students must follow the program policies for responding to the midterm memo and seek assistance from the course instructor and faculty adviser. A final course grade of less than C in any given course will constitute a course failure. Students who are eligible will take a comprehensive remediation exam for the failed course three–five days after receiving notice of the failure. Following a successful remediation exam, the final grade for that course will be recorded as C (E) to indicate that the course was passed via remediation. Students who fail a course and/or the remediation examination will be sent to the Committee on Student Progress (CSP) and may be dismissed. While matriculating through the D.P.T. program, each student is permitted to remediate a total of two didactic courses. Since a student who receives a final course grade of F in any course is not allowed to progress to the succeeding semester, he or she must successfully remediate the first course failure to be granted the opportunity to remediate a second course failure. A student will be allowed to sit for only one remediation examination per course. Students who fail a clinical experience may be given one opportunity to retake the experience at a time and place determined by the director of Clinical Education (DCE). Students who fail a clinical experience will be sent to the CSP. If a student fails a clinical experience a second time, he or she may be dismissed from the program.