What about this for your situation, David:  Grading the 40 papers that you still have and giving the other 20 students the following choice:  (a) re-take the mid-term w/ different questions or (b) reallocate the weightings of what you grade them on such that there is no weighting for the lost mid-term.

 

Dave Canarie

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From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk on behalf of David Opderbeck
Sent: Fri 10/28/2005 10:04 AM
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Subject: Lost Bluebooks


Last night I gave a mid-term to a class of about 60 students.  I left 20 of the bluebooks on the train on the way home (moron!).  I'm hoping they will turn up in NJ Transit's lost and found today.  If they don't, has anyone had to deal with a situation like this before, and how do you handle it?  I'm thinking that if the missing bluebooks aren't found, the only fair thing to do is to write a new mid-term and give a "do-over."