Assessment

Continuous assessment

Students must provide evidence of their progress by completing various tasks and tests. These activities are detailed in the table at the end of this section of the study guide.

Throughout the course, students must submit a minimum of 6 translation exercises or additional assignments that teachers decide on the texts of the dossier on dates that will be indicated in due course and that will constitute 40 % of the final grade. Another 40 % will come from an extensive tutored translation exercise. The remaining 20 % will come from the tests ordered in class. 

The information about the evaluation, the type of evaluation activity and its weight on the subject is for information. The teachers responsible for the subject will specify it when they start teaching.

Review

When publishing final grades prior to recording them on students' transcripts, the lecturer will provide written notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrange reviews in agreement with the lecturer.

Missed/failed assessment activities

Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6 % (two-thirds) of the final grade for the subject and that they have a weighted average grade of at least 3.5.

The lecturer will inform students, in writing, of the procedure involved when publishing final grades prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities. Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100 % of the final grade be retaken or compensated for. In the case of retakes, the maximum grade will be 5 (Pass).

Classification as"not assessable"

In the event that the assessment activities a student has performed account for 25 % or less of the subject's final grade for the subject, their work will be classified as "not assessable" on their transcript.

Misconduct in assesssment activities

Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a grade of “0” for the activity in question. In the case of misconduct in more than one assessment activity, the student involved will be given a final grade of “0” for the subject. Assessment activities in which irregularities have occurred (e.g. plagiarism, copying, impersonation) are excluded from retake activities.

Single assessment

This subject may be assessed under the single assessment system in accordance with the terms established in the academic regulations of the UAB and the assessment criteria of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting.

Students must make an online request within the period established by the faculty and send a copy to the lecturer responsible for the subject, for the record.

Single assessment will be carried out in person on one day during week 16 or 17 of the semester. The Academic Management Office will publish the exact date and time on the faculty website.

On the day of the single assessment, teaching staff will ask the student for identification, which should be presented as a valid identification document with a recent photograph (student card, DNI/NIE or passport).

Single assessment activities

The final grade for the subject will be calculated according to the following percentages:

Student Portfolio and Works (40 %), translation exercises (20 %), translation tasks execution tests (40%).

Grade revision and retake procedures for the subject are the same as those for continual assessment. See the section above in this Study Guide.