Assessment

Assessment activities
 A) Weekly exercises (10%):

• Weekly practical sessions will include a series of exercises to be submitted in the following days. The deadline is not flexible, and no exercise will be accepted out of time, except for situations of force majeure. 
• The exercises will not be directly corrected, but the solutions will be uploaded to the virtual campus with detailed explanations, to facilitate self-correction, and the solutions will be commented in class. 
• The quality of the work developed in these exercises will be taken into account to decide in dubious cases about passing or failing and about being granted honors.

B) Assessment and follow-up activities in the classroom (15%):

• Each session will conclude with a brief set of questions about the contents developed during the class or on reading materials defined for the session. 
• This activity cannot be repeated in case of absence. The score for an unjustified absence will be 0. If the absence is justified by force majeure, that activity will not be taken into account in the average.

C) Paper (30%):

• Paper on a quantitative research topic.
• The guidelines for its development and the evaluation criteria will be indicated at the beginning of the course.
• The paper can be written in groups, of a size to be determined, either in Catalan, Spanish or English.
• Serious formal shortcomings (including, but not limited to, bad spelling and failing to follow APA citation rules) may  result in a fail mark.
• Students will be required to present a mid-term submission in order to follow up their work. This submission will result in an orientation grade. The final grade can either increase or decrease, depending on the evolutionof thework.
• There is notathird submission option for papers failed in the second submission.

D) Exam (45%)

• The exam will have a theoretical-practical orientation, combining questions about the main concepts of the syllabus, their application in the resolution of problems, and the use of statistical software.
• Candidates having failed the exam will have the opportunity to repeat it, opting to maximum grade of 5

• The course will be passed if the final grade reaches a minimum of 5 out of 10 and a minimum grade of 4 for each assessment item.

Conditions to be assessed:

• In accordance with the Degree policy, 100% attendance is mandatory. Absences can be justified due to force majeure. Absence due to academic reasons will have to be accepted in advance by the professor. A minimum of 80% attendance is necessary to opt to the final exam. 
• Punctuality is required. Delays greater than 5 minutes and not justified by force majeure will count as an absence.

Fraudulent conducts

• If any form of plagiarism is detected in any of the assessment activities, these will be rated as 0, with no option to re-evaluate.
• Indications of plagiarism in the weekly exercises, or the inability of students to justify the procedures followed to solve them, will result in a warning and a 0 grade. Any reiteration will result in a 0 grade on the whole course with no option to resit.

Conduct during the course:

UAB fosters a diverse and inclusive environment for students, faculty, and staff. Acts of intolerance, discrimination, or harassment due to age, ancestry, disability, gender, gender identity, national origin, religious belief or sexual orientation will not be tolerated under any circumstance, nor will behaviours that create a hostile environment. These will be reported under the university harassment prevention policy.