Assessment

In the event that assessment activities cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.

The evaluation of the subject will be done in a progressive form and continued during all the semester. The system of evaluation bases in the following rules:

a)     Process and activities of evaluation 

 The following activities are foreseen: 

• Activity A. Realisation of test in the platform Moodle. The part of linear systems of equations will be studied in an autonomous form by students from material supplied by professors. Afterwards, the student will have to complete a test in Moodle in order to show the acquired knowledge. This activity sums up 5% on the final grade of the subject.
• Activity B. Presentation of reports, by writing and orally, relative to the exercises solved with computer, worked during the course, with the aim to follow the evolution of each student in the understanding and use of the tools worked in the subject, and to improve at the same time the acquisition of transversal competitions.  This activity sums up 15% on the final grade of the subject. The final grade of this activity will be the average of the grades obtained in each practice.
  
• Activity C. Examination of the contents of the Block I, to favour the consolidation of the group of the material worked during the course. This activity sums up 40% on the final grade of the subject.
• Activity D. Examination of the contents of the Blocks III and IV, to favour the consolidation of the group of the material worked during the course. This activity sums up 40% on the final grade of the subject.

In order to pass the subject, it will be necessary to take out a minimum grade of 5 in the activities, A, C and D. It is necessary to bear in mind that the Activities A and B  are “not recoverable”. Therefore, not passing the activity A within the established deadline with a grade higher to the indicated previously (5), supposes not being able to approve the subject. 

b)     Schedule of evaluation activities

The schedule of evaluation activities will be given the first day of class and will be made public through the Virtual Campus (Moodle) and in the web of the School of Engineering, at the section of examinations. The following schedule is foreseen:

            + Activity A: to complete before the ending of the classes (December 23, 2022).

            + Activity B: it will be communicated during the first week of class.

            + Activity C: Examination block I (partial): 9 November 2022 . Final examination and Recovery: dates to determine by the School (January of 2023 ).

            + Activity D: Final Examination and Recovery: dates to determine by the School (January of 2023).

If the student passes the activity C (takes out more than or equal to 5) in the partial examination, frees this part of subject (activity approved) and only will have to present to the examination of the blocks III and IV (Activity D) in the date of the final examination (January of 2023). If the student does not approve the activity C in the partial examination, he/she will have to present to this examination (activity C) jointly with the activity D in the date of the final examination. To approve the activity A there will be available two possibilities along the semester.

c)     Process of re-taking

 For those students that at the end of the process of evaluation have not obtained an equal or higher qualification to 5 in the activities C and D, there will be a re-evaluation. This will consist in the realisation, in the planned date by the School, of an examination containing representative contents of the situations worked during the course. The students only will have to present to the examination of the activity that have not approved before. If a student does not arrive to the minimum grade of 5 in any of the activities A, C or D and by this reason does not approve the subject, the final grade will be of 4,5 at most, that is to say, the same to the value of the average grade if it is inferior to 4,5 or 4,5 if it is higher.

d)     Procedure of review of the qualifications

For each evaluation activity, a place, date and hour of review will be indicated in which the student will be able to review the activity with the professor. In this context, he will be able to do claims on the grade of the activity, that will be evaluated by the professors responsible of the subject. If the student does not take part of this review, this activity will not be reviewed later. 

e)     Qualifications

The final grade of the subject will be calculated by using the weights mentioned in section a). It is necessary to take into account that:

• Grade “with honours”. Award a qualification “with honours” is only decision of the professors responsible of the subject. The rule of the UAB indicates that the “with honours” grade only will be able to concede to students that have obtained an equal final qualification or higher to 9.00 and, as maximum, in a quantity not greater than 5% of the total enrollment. 
• Non evaluable. It will be considered “non evaluable” a student that have not presented to any activity C or D. In any another case follow the criteria of evaluation detailed above.

f)      Irregularities by part of the student, copy and plagiarism

 Notwithstanding other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with the academic regulations in force, assessment activities will receive a 0 score whenever a student commits academic irregularities that may alter such assessment. The assessment activities qualified in this way and by this procedure will not be recoverable. If you need to pass any of these assessment activities to pass the subject, this subject will be failed directly, without opportunity to recover it in the same course These irregularities include, among others: 

• the total or partial copy of a practice, report, or any other evaluation activity; 
• let copy; 
• present a group work not done entirely by the members of the group; 
• present as own, materials which are prepared by a third party, even if they are translations or adaptations,or works with non‐original and exclusive elements of the student; 

• have communication devices (such as mobile phones, smart watches, etc.) accessible during theoretical‐practical assessment tests (individual exams). 

g)     Evaluation of the students taking the course for second time

For those students taking the course for second time, the grades of the activities B, C and D are not rolled over from one course for the following. Nevertheless, the mark of the Moodle tests (Activity A) will be rolled over. The validation of the grade will be carried out ex officio, without the express request of the student being necessary.. The students taking the course for the second time follow the same norms of evaluation that any one another student.