Assessment

The evaluation of the subject will be individual and continuous through the following modules:

Evaluation module of the Theoretical Classes (60% of the final grade): Two written different eliminatory assessment exams will be assigned for this module, the first exam, with a weight of 32%, includes units 1 to 9, and the second exam, with a weight of 28%, includes units 10 to 23. These evaluations will be eliminatory if a minimum grade of 5 is obtained. Each test will include three parts: multiple choice questions; true or false questions and short questions, with a value of 6, 2 and 2 points out of 10, respectively.

Seminar assessment module (40% of the final grade). The evaluation of this module includes:

1.-Resolution of cases / methodological exercises (10% of the final grade). The seminar classes corresponding to this activity, from 1 to 9, will be compulsory attendance. If a student of a seminar group cannot attend one of these sessions, he must communicate and justify it clearly to the responsible teacher, and thus be able to attend the same session of the other group of seminars. If there is no clear justification, the change will not be valid, and like absence in any of the sessions, may entail a penalty in evaluating this training activity.

2.- Deliver an informative article to Wikipedia and defend the WikiProject (17.5% of the final grade). In this case, students must:

- Search for one or more scientific articles or academic book chapters on the subject of the assigned Wikipedia article (preferably in open access) that they can then use to guide the structure of the content and cite it as a bibliography of the article.

- Create or improve an existing article on the Catalan Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia (depending on its status at the beginning of the subject) on theassigned topic. Compliance with the specific follow-up guidelines found on the subject's wikiproject page (Viquiprojecte: Microbiologia dels Aliments UAB) will be evaluated, which will be previously explained during the first classes of the Seminars module. These guidelines consider scientific correctness but also the informative structure, the ability to synthesize and write, the informative vocabulary, the use of infographics and the wiki style guide. In addition, it will be evaluated in a particularly critical and exhaustive way that students are able to synthesize and rewrite academic information already published without falling into plagiarism, or that they opt very limited for similar paraphrasing only if a work is free of rights and the authorship is cited correctly. Any changes in these criteria will be informed on the first day of class of this module.

- In the defense of the WikiProject it will be taken into account that students adjust to the maximum time indicated for the presentation, and that they are able to orally synthesize the information contained in their WikiProject based on the following points to be discussed: assigned topic, the structure of the article, summary explanation of the contents and / or information considered relevant,  as well as any other point or aspect that students think interesting about the exposed topic.

3.- Preparation of test questions and true/false (5% of the final grade). The students, individually, will have to prepare 5 test questions and 5 true/false questions about the WikiProject in which they have worked. These questions must be sent to the responsible teacher, by email, no later than the same day assigned for the defense of their WikiProject.

4.- Completion of the individual questionnaire (7.5% of the final grade). This questionnaire will take place on the last day of class of this module and will consist of answering testand/or true/false questions that students will have presented about the Wikipedia articles worked on and discussed in the classroom and that will subsequently have been evaluated by the teacher, and questions about the functioning of Wikipedia as a scientific dissemination tool.

In the theoretical classes and seminars, the student's punctuality and attitude will be considered. In no case this follow-up will entail an increase in the grade, but failure to comply with this may mean a reduction of up to 25% of the final grade obtained in this subject.

Students who cannot attend an individual assessment test for justified reasons (such as a health problem, death of a relative up to a second degree, accident, elite athlete status, and have a compulsory competition or sports activity, etc.) and provide the corresponding official documentation to the degree coordinator (official medical certificate explicitly stating their inability to take an exam,  police report, justification from the competent sports body, etc.), will have the right to take the test on another date. The degree coordinator will ensure the concretion of this after consultation with the teacher of the subject affected.

To pass the subject, a minimum grade of 5 must be obtained in each module. Students who do not pass the evaluations of the different modules of the subject will be able to recover them on the scheduled date at the end of the semester (Recovery exam) where the minimum grade to pass will also be 5. In order to be able to attend the recovery exam, the student must have been previously evaluated for continuous assessment activities that are equivalent to 2/3 (67%) of the final grade. In the case of the theoretical classes module, they will only have to submit to the individual evaluation test not passed previously, and that will consist of a multiple-choice questionnaire that will include multiple choice, true/false and short questions. In the case of the seminar module, theymust be submitted to a written test based on test and/or true/false questions referring to the different activities worked during these classes. Students who do not obtain the minimum required qualification cannot pass the subject. In this case, the maximum final grade for the subject will be 4.

Students will obtain the "Non-Valuable" qualification when the evaluation activities carried out have a weighting of less than 67% in the final grade.

Students who want to improve the final grade of the subject (theory and/or seminars) will have to submit to a specific evaluation test that will take place on the same day that the recovery exam is done. These improvement tests will include all the contents taught during the theoretical classes (theory improvement) and/or all the contents taught during the seminar classes  (improvement methodology and wikiproject) and will consist of a questionnaire-type test and/or true/false where the student must demonstrate that he has improved his degree of knowledge of the subject. The presentation of the student to this improvement exam will entail the waiver of the qualification previously obtained.

Single assessment

Single assessment consists of a single examination in which the two modules of the subject will be assessed: theory classes and seminars. Regarding the Theoretical Classes module, all the contents of the entire program of the subject will be evaluated and consist of test questions, true/false questions, and short questions. The note obtained in this part will represent 60 % of the final grade of the subject and must be equal to or greater than 5.

Regarding the Seminars module, in the single assessment, the activities related to the Resolution of methodological cases/exercises and the Questionnaire with multiple choice and true/false questions will be evaluated, both through test questions andtrue/false and will have a weight of 17.5 % of the final grade of the subject and must also be equal to or greater than 5. 

As for the rest of the activities programmed within the Seminars module: Deliver informative article to Viquipèdia and defend the Viquiprojecte and Preparation of test questions and true/false, the same procedure will be followed as in the continuous assessment with a weight of 22.5 % of the final grade of the subject.

The single assessment exam will coincide with the same date set in the calendar for the last partial assessment exam and the same recovery system will be applied as for continuous assessment.