Assessment

Subject assesement will take into account three types of assesement activities: resolution of problems, individual assesement and programming project. The final grade of the subject is obtained by combining the grade of these 3 activities as follows:

Final Grade = (0.3 * Continuous assesement) + (0.3 * Project) + (0.4 * Individual assesement)

• Continuous assesement: this section includes the assesement of the exercises that are proposed throughout the course and other activities that are carried out in the lectures or are proposed to be delivered on the Caronte platform.
• A minimum grade of 5 is required in this activity in order to pass the subject.
• The exercises that are not delivered within the deadline or that are suspended can be re-delivered at any time during the course before the final exam date of the subject, with a reduction of the 20% in the grade.

 

• Individual assesement: this section includes the results of the individual tests that will be done throughout the course. There will be two partial tests that will be done during the period of lectures in the course during class time and a final test during the official exam period. This final test will permit to compensate any of the partial tests and will only have to be done by students who have not passed any of the two partial test. If one of the two partial test has been passed, but the other does not, in this test only the part of the subject corresponding to the partial test that has not been passed must be re-assesed.

 

• A minimum grade of 4.5 is required in each of the two partial tests in order to pass the subject.

 

• The final grade will be the average of the two partial tests:

Individual assesement = (0.5 * Partial Test 1) + (0.5 * Partial Test 2)

• A minimum grade of 5 is required in the final grade of the individual assesement in order to pass the subject.

 

• Project: includes the assesement of all the work carried out in the programming project: the two deliveries of the project (a partial delivery in the middle of the course and the final delivery) and the conitnuous monitoring of the project that will be done throughout the course.
• A minimum grade of 5 is required in the final delivery of the project in order to pass the subject.
• A minimum grade of 5 is required in the overall grade of the project in order to pass the subject.
• The final delivery of the project can be re-assesed if the project grade is> = 3.

 

Not assesed: A student will be considered not assesed (NA) if he does not submit at least 50% of the deliveries of exercises and does not do any of the evaluation tests: partial test 1, partial test 2, final test, final delivery of the project.

Suspended: If the final grade is equal to or greater than 5 but the student does not reach the minimum required in any of the assesement activities, the final grade will be suspended and , the grade in the Transcript of Records (ToR) will be 4.5.

Pass the course with honours: In order to pass the course with honours, the final grade must be a 9.0 or higher. Because the number of students with this distinction cannot exceed 5% of the number of students enrolled in the course, this distinction will be awarded to whoever has the highest final grade.

Compensations: For the students who are following the course for the second time or more, the project of the previous year can be compensated if these conditions aremet:

• The final grade of the project of the previous year is greater than or equal to 7
• The grade of the individual assesement of the previous year is greater than or equal to 3.

When compensated, the grade of the project will be 5, independently of the grade obtained in the previous year.

 

Review of assesement: For each assesement activity, a place, date and time of review will be indicated allowing students to review the activity with the lecturer. In this context, students may discuss the activity grade awarded by the lecturers responsible for the subject. If students do not take part in this review, no further opportunity will be made available.

Important note: copies and plagiarism

Notwithstanding other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with the academic regulations in force, assessment activities will receive a zero whenever a student commits academic irregularities that may alter such assessment. Assessment activities graded in this way and by this procedure will not be re-assessable. If passing the assessment activity or activities in question is required to pass the subject, the awarding of a zero for disciplinary measures will also entail a direct fail for the subject, with no opportunity to re-assess this in the same academic year. Irregularities contemplated in this procedure include, among others:

• the total or partial copying of a practical exercise, report, or any other evaluation activity;
•  allowing others to copy;
• presenting group work that has not been done entirely by the members of the group;
• presenting any materials prepared by a third party as one’s own work, even if these materials are translations or adaptations, including work that is not original or exclusively that of the student;
• having communication devices (such as mobile phones, smart watches, etc.) accessible during theoretical-practical assessment tests (individual exams).
• talk with peers during the theoretical evaluation tests-individual practices (exams);
• copy or attempt to copy other students during the theoretical-practical assessment tests (exams);
• use or attempt to use writings related to the subject during the performance of theoretical-practical assessment tests (exams), when these have not been explicitly allowed.

 

In these cases, the grade in the Transcript of Records (ToR) will be the lowest value between 3.0 and the weighted average grade (and therefore re-assessment will not be possible).In the assesment of problems and the project, tools to detect code plagiarism will be used.

 

Note on the planning of the assesment activities: Continuous-assessment dates will be published on Caronte and on the presentation slides. Specific programming may change when necessary. Any such modification will always be communicated to students through Caronte, which is the usual communication platform between lecturers and students.