There will no be differentiated treatment for students who repeat the subject.

Assessment

Assessment criteria

The assesment of the course is continuous and formative, using a number of learning evidences generated by students along the course.

Activities and instruments for the assessment:

Class activities

These activities are carried out during the classe, without any regularity. Because they are face-to-face activities, these activities are not compulsory (they do not need to be done to pass the subject, although they are part of the assessment). Examples of these activities can be: a commentary on a short documentary passed in class, the description of a theatrical activity done in class, some test questions about the theory session or newly created problems, analyze the functioning of the classroom, a protocol for the exchange of routing information, etc.

Mid-term control and final validation examinations of knowledge

The mid-term control is an individual written test that aims to validate if each student has achieved the minimum knowledge of the subject worked up to that moment. It does not eliminate matter for the final exam nor a minimal note for this control. The final examinations of validation of knowledge and practices are individual written tests that aim to validate if each student has achieved in a minimum way the global knowledge and the abilities of the subject. These exams are motivated by the high importance given to the successful achievement of the knowledge and skills of the subjects in the engineering environment where the degree is framed. The final examination of knowledge validation is mandatory for all students.

Practical case

There will be a small test in which the student will solve individually a practical case, applying the competences acquired until half of the course, approximately. In this exercise, it is valid as the student has integrated what he has learned in order to solve a plausible case that could be found, for example, in their professional future.

Laboratory projects

The practical lab projects consist in the accomplishment of a series of projects with which they try to obtain knowledge and abilities related to the subject. It is equally important to have worked in all the development of the practice, such as having understood and learned the knowledge that is derived from it. The specific details on the organization of the labs (projects, groups, calendar, weighting ...) and on their follow-up (reports, assistance requirements, code of originality policy ...) can be downloaded from Virtual Campus Attendance at practice sessions (closed laboratory) is mandatory. To be evaluated it will be essential to have assisted at least 80% of the laboratory sessions.  To pass this part of the evaluation each lab project has to be passed.

 

Indicators that will be used to qualify the learning achieved

In the problems and supervised work the indicators that we will use will be the individual record in the work, the cooperation between the members of each team, the quality of the work done and the degree of participation in the set of evidences. Quality indicators are the correct use of the technical terms, the correct wording of the paragraphs, and the good structure of the contents delivered. We will also value the certainty in the work. We will value that the resolutions of the problems are well argued and corrected if applicable. In class activities, we will value the participation of the students and the reports or documents delivered. In the practical part we will use as indicators the preparation (previous reports) and active participation in the sessions of practices and in the session of evaluation and the quality in the elaboration of the reports of complete development. In the control and in the final examinations of validation of knowledge and validation of practices the main indication will be the degree of correctionof the answers to the questions raised.

Remarks about copying, plagiarism and cheating

Notwithstanding other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with the academic regulations in force, assessment activities will receive a zero (0) whenever a student commits academic irregularities that may alter such assessment. Assessment activities graded in this way and by this procedure will notbe re-assessable. If passing the assessment activuty or activities in question is required to pass the subject, the awarding of a zero (0) for disciplinary measures will also entail a direct fail for the subject, with no opportunity to re-assess this in the same acadeimc year. Irregularities contemplated in this procedure include, among others:

• the total or partial copying of a practical exercice, 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 anymaterials 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 to other student during the individual practical or theoretical tests.
• copying or trying to copy from other students during the individual practical or theoretical tests.
• using or trying to use writen material related to the subject during the individual practical or theoretical tests when they have not been explicitly allowed.

When a student is involved in any evaluation irregularity, the final mark of the course will be the lowest value considering 3.0 and the weighted average of the grades (and no compensation is thuspossible).

All in all: copying, allowing the copy, plagiarism (or just trying) in any of the assessment activities means failing the course, and makes it impossible to compensate or reuse any part of the assessment in the future..

 

Final grade

The final grade of the subject, which includes assessment of the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies, will be the averageofthe assessment parts weighted in this way:

• 35% the qualification of the final examination of validation of knowledge. The minimum mark required by this part is 5 out of 10.
• 35% the final grade of the practical part. The minimum mark required by this part is 5 out of 10.
• 15% the qualification of the mid-term control of knowledge. No minimum mark is required for this part.
• 5% the classification of the practical case. No minimum mark is required for this part.
• 10% of the grade of work done in class activities. No minimum mark is required for this part.

The final grade of 20% corresponding to the mid-year control (15%) and the practical case (5%), MCSP, will be calculated based on the mark obtained in the final exam. If the MCSP grade is equal to or greater than 1.5 and the final exam score is equal to or greater than 5, then it will be taken as MCSP, the maximum between 5 and its value. This is due to the fact that the final exam evaluates all the theoretical content of the subject.

If the student do not pass the subject due to the fact that none of the assessment activities do not reach the minimum grade required, the numerical grade of the file will be the lowest value between 4.0 and the weighted average of the grades. With the exceptions that the "non-evaluable" qualification will be awarded to students who do not participate in any of the assessmentactivities, and that the numerical grade of the file will be the lowest value between 3.0 and the weighted average of the grades in case the student has committed irregularities in an evaluation act (and therefore not approved for compensation).

The granting of honors will be made taking into account the active participation in the development of the subject, for example collaborating in the resolution of problems in the forum of thesubject, the obtaining of non-evaluable merits indicated during the course,the final grade of the subject, and the mark of the final proof of knowledge.

Evaluation schedule

Constantly: class activity and practices in the laboratory, with the corresponding reports.
After practical projects: evaluation session.
Mid-term knowledge control and practical validation.
At the end: validation exams of knowledge.
The evaluation dates will be published on the Campus Virtual and may be subject to changes of programming for reasons of adaptationtopossible incidents. The Virtual Campus will always be informed about these changes as it is understood to be the usual mechanism for exchanging information between the teacher and students.

A resit of the final validation exam of knowledge is expected for those students who do not pass it on the first opportunity. It is also planned to make a second assessment of the lab projects for those students who have not delivered them at due time, although have been working on them during the term.

It is not possible to re-assess the class activities, nor the mid-term control, nor the practical case, because they are parts of the assessment that can not be failed (no minimum mark is required) and because they are part of the Continuous assessment (they do not make sense outside of the temporary context in which they are performed).

Students repeating the course

There will be no automatic re-use of previous. Validations must be requested explicitly following the procedure that will be indicated on the first day of class.