Assessment

• The students must perform partial tests that include different assessment activities (reading and oral comprehension, written and oral expression, and grammatical knowledge).
  Each partial test has a scale to assess the learning outcomes according to the specific competences. These tests have a duration of 1 to 2 hours.
• Assessment is continuous. Students must provide evidence of their progress by copleting tasks and tests. Task deadlines will be indicated in the course schedule on the first day of class.
• The continuous assessment consists of several partial tests that include different evaluation activities (reading comprehension, written production, grammar and vocabulary). Each partial test has a scale to assess the learning results according to the specific competences.
• If for any reason (indisposition of the teacher, strike, public holiday, official acts of the faculty, etc.) the tests cannot take place on the scheduled date, an alternative date will be proposed. If a student, due to health reasons, cannot attend a partial test, he/she must provide a medical certificate. Only in that case the possibility of postponing the test will be considered.
• During the semester the progression of the students' learning process will be discussed continuously.

Related matters

The above information on assessment, assessment activities and their weighting is merely a guide. The subject's lecturer will provide full information when teaching begins.

Review

When publishing final marks prior to recording them on students' transcripts, the lecturer will provide written notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrange reviews in agreement with the lecturer.

Missed/failed assessment activities

Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6% (two thirds) of the subject's final mark and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5. Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for.

The lecturer will inform students of the procedure involved, in writing, when publishing final marks prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities.

Classification as "not assessable"

In the event of the assessment activities a student has performed accounting for just 25% or less of the subject's final mark, their work will be classified as "not assessable" on their transcript.

Misconduct in assessment activities

Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for the activity in question. In the case of misconduct in more than one assessment activity, the students involved will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject.

Students may not retake assessment activities in which they are found to have engaged in misconduct. Plagiarism is considered to mean presenting all or part of an author's work, whether published in print or in digital format, as one's own, i.e. without citing it. Copying is considered to mean reproducing all or a substantial part of another student's work. In cases of copying in which it is impossible to determine which of two students has copied the work of the other, both will be penalised.