Assessment

The work of the students during the course will be mainly structured around a collective research project . This research project will be followed up and evaluated through three partial deliveries that will be made progressively throughout the course. The project will be presented in an oral defense. The set of these tasks will mean 50% of the final grade.

Additionally, a final written exam will be carried out that will represent 35% of the final grade. The remaining 15% of the evaluation will be achieved by assisting in practical sessions and tasks associated with them. Each of these parts must achieve a minimum degree of sufficiency. 

At the beginning of the semester, a general schedule of the course will be made available to the students. In it the dates of the evaluable activities will be indicated.

I) Group assessment

The group assessment aims to capture the ability to work as a team and develop a research project in each of its phases. This evaluation will consist of the realization of a research project that will be evaluated in a continuous way from three assignments, from the revision by the professors and from the attendance to classroom workshops linked to its realization. An oral presentation of the research project will be made at the end of the course. It represents 50% of the final grade (40% written and follow-up text; 10% oral presentation).

Late deliveries will not be accepted. Assignments that have not been submitted within the fixed deadline, or that have not been passed, cannot be recovered.

II) Individual assessment

The individual assessment will be based on the completion of an individual written exam that aims tocapture the degree of the knowledge acquired throughout the theoretical and practical sessions. It represents 35% of the final grade.

III) Classroom workshops

Throughout the course there will be a series of classroom workshops focused on applying the theoretical content of the course. Some of these seminars are proposed as seminars to support group projects. Therefore, topics directly related to some stages of a research project or directly related to research resources and techniques will be covered. It represents 15% of the final grade.

IV) Suspended and "not presented"

Both in group work and in the individual test, it is necessary a 3 out of 10 to be able to average between the two evaluations.

For group work, no compensation activity is foreseen. For the individual written exam students can access a recovery exam, as long as the exam grade is equal to or greater than 3 out of 10. Students who have not taken the final written exam or have a grade lower than 3 over 10, will not be able to take the recovery option.

Those students who have not carried out the evaluation activities corresponding to 50% of the grade will have the grade of Not Presented.

VI) Copy and/or Plagiarism

In case of any irregularity of this type, the evaluated activity will be assessed with a 0 (see Article 116. Item 10. Of the Academic Regulations of the UAB "In case the student makes any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation of the grade of an evaluation act, will be rated with 0 this evaluation act, regardless of the disciplinary process that can be instructed, in case there are several irregularities in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade of this subject will be 0.", available at http://www.uab.cat/doc/TR_Normativa_Academica_Plans_Nous).

The students who copy or try to copy on an exam will have a 0 in the subject and will lose the right to re-evaluation. The students who present a practice in which there is evidence of plagiarism or who cannot justify the arguments of their practice will receive a 0 and receive a warning. In case of repetition of the behaviour, the students will fail the subject (0) and will lose the right to re-evaluation.