Assessment

Continuous evaluation system

The ongoing evaluation will have four main components:

a) Active participation - 30% of the final mark. Activities of preparation and presentation of news and interviews about business management linked to the chemical sector, cases of real chemical companies, exercises, questions linked to the content of the seminars and active participation in class discussions. At the discretion of the teachers, these activities can be carried out individually or in-group, formed by between 3 and 4 students. In the latter case, members of a group who do not demonstrate sufficient participation will receive a 0 in this part of the assessment.

b) Chemical company case - 10% of the final mark. Development of a work on organization, strategy and functional areas of a Catalan company in the chemical sector, with emphasis on the points described in the program and following a script established by the teachers. The work will be assigned by lottery among the different work groups set up in class and will involve a written part and a video presentation that will form part of the evaluation.

c) Partial release exam - 20% of the final mark. It will include the completion of a test with various formats, multiple answers, short questions and exercises, corresponding to chapters 1 and 2 included in the teaching guide for the subject. In case the grade is equal or greater than 4 points out of 10, the subject will be considered released and will not be included in the final exam. The completion of the test will follow the one established by the academic calendar of the UAB School of Engineering and will open a subsequent period of publication and review of the grades within three weeks of taking the midterm exam.

d) Final exam- 40% of the final mark. It will include taking a test with multiple formats, multiple choice, short questions and exercises, corresponding to the contents of theentire course, with the exception of the part of the partial exam for students who have obtained a 4 or more on that test.  The written test will take place following the academic calendar established by the School of Engineering of the UAB.

Attendance: students can be assessed following the continuous assessment if they attend class in person at a minimum of 75% of the hours assigned to the subject, except for justified reasons. The assessment of attendance will be done through controls periodically and without prior notice, so that it is as objective as possible.

The subject is approved through continuous assessment with a final grade of at least 5 out of 10, applying the weightings of each of the assessment activities, as long as the weighted average of the grade of the partial exam and the final exam is equal to or higher than 4 out of 10. In this second case, the subject will be considered as not passed with the grade equivalent to the weighted average of the two exams.

All students have the obligation to complete the assessable tasks. The student will be considered NON-ASSESSABLE only when not have participated in any of the course evaluation activities. Therefore, a student who completes some component of continuous assessment can no longer be qualified as "non-assessable".

In order to access recovery, students must obtain a minimum average grade in all assessment activities of 3.5 out of 10. For will take part in the recovery, students who have opted for the continuous assessment system must have assessed themselves in a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of two-thirds of the subject's total grade.

The dates of the various assessment tests and assignments will be announced well in advance during the semester Virtual Campus and may be subject to schedule changes for reasons of adaptation to possible incidents, beyond the official schedule in the exam calendar, partial, final and recovery established by the School of Engineering of the UAB.

Unique evaluation system

Following the academic regulations established by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Governing Council Agreement of July 7 2022, Article 265), the Permanent Board of the Faculty of Sciences approved the document "Application of the Single Assessment to the Faculty of Sciences" on March 30, 2023. This document contains the single assessment procedure adapted to the Faculty and includes this subject among those that must offer students the possibility to take advantage of this system, following the calendar of request established. The single assessment request constitutes, in accordance with the established regulations, the irrevocable waiver of the right continuous evaluation.

Students who have accepted the single assessment modality will have to take a final test which will consist of an exam corresponding to the entire syllabus of the subject to be completed on the day when the students enrolled in the continuous assessment system do the final exam. The student's grade will be the grade of this test, corresponding to 100%, so that the subject is approved by obtaining a final grade of at least 5 out of 10. The structure of the test, which will include all the planned syllabus and the related activities collected in the Virtual Campus, will follow the same characteristics established for the corresponding final exam to continuous assessment students, with multiple-choice questions, short questions and varied exercises.

If the final grade does not reach a minimum of 5 out of 10, the student has another opportunity to pass the subject by taking the recovery that will be held on the same date as suspended students from the continuous assessment system.

"The schedule of the evaluation tests may not be modified, unless there is an exceptional and duly justified reason for which an assessment cannot be carried out. In this case, the people responsible for the degrees, afterconsultation with the teaching staff and to the affected students, they will propose a new program within the corresponding academic period" (Paragraph 1 of Article 115 of the academic regulations of the UAB). Students of the Faculty of Sciences who, in accordance with the previous paragraph, need to change one assessment date must submit the request by filling in the corresponding test rescheduling document.

In any of the two evaluation systems, if the grade corresponding to the students is 5 or higher, it will be considered passed the subject and cannot be the subject of a new assessment.

Qualification review procedure

In the course presentation document and throughout the semester through the Virtual Campus, the day and medium in which they will publish the final grades. In the same way, the procedure, place, date and time of the review will be informed subject qualifications in accordance with UAB regulations. At most, one week before the scheduled date for the final exam, students who have opted for the continuous assessment system must know all the partial grades obtained to date, in order to be aware of their situation in the subject.

Revaluation process

Those students who have not passed the subject, through one of the two assessment systems provided, will have a final test consisting of a recovery exam for the subject as a whole. In the case of the continuous evaluation system, it is no longer taking into account the generally established assessment system.

The teachers of the subject will decide the mode of this test and will include this information in the presentation of the course. The structure of the exam may follow the same arrangement as that established for the exams taken during the course or may focus on in a single modality, such as multiple-choice questions or carrying out exercises.

To access recovery, students must obtain a minimum weighted grade in all assessmentactivities equal to or higher than 3.5 out of 10. When the grade of the recovery test is equal to or higher than 5 out of 10, the final grade of the subject will be of PASS being the maximum numerical grade of 5 points out of 10. When the grade of the recovery test is lower than 5 out of 10, the final grade of the subject will be FAIL, the numerical grade being the grade of the course (or the weighted grade of the exams partial and final if the established limit of 4 out of 10 has not been exceeded), and not the recovery grade.

In the event that students have obtained a weighted grade for all assessment activities below 3.5 out of 10 or have if they fail the make-up exam with a score of less than 5 out of 10, they will be forced to repeat the subject in the following year.

In this sense, the possibility remains available to teachers to retain the qualification of the part of active participation and of the case of company established for the continuous evaluation system, so that the students of the second registration and following only have to take the partial and final exams.

Irregularities in assessment activities

Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, "in case the student commits any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation in the grade of an assessment activity, will qualify this activity with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be instituted. In case several occur irregularities in the evaluation activities of the same subject, the final grade of this subject will be 0" (Section 10 of Article 116 of the academic regulations of the UAB). Activities such as plagiarism, copying during an exam, letting yourself be copied, etc. is considered covered by these regulations, so that the linked assessment activities will not be recoverable in any case. It is necessary to pass any of these assessment activities to pass the subject; this subject will besuspended directly without recovery opportunity in the same academic year.