Assessment

To evaluate the learning level of the students we establish a formula that combines acquisition of knowledge, abilities in problem solving and the skills to work in a team as well as to justify the obtained results in a project.

Final grade is computed as a weighted sum of the marks obtained in the different performed activities:

       Final Score = 0.5 * Theory Score + 0.1 * Problem Score + 0.4 * Practice Score

This formula will be computed only in the case that Theory Score is greater or equal than 5, and the Project Score is greater or equal than 6. No constrain is applied on the Problem Score. If the Final Score is >=5, but the minimum thresholds are not achieved in on the the Scores, then the Score in the transcript will be 4.5. 

The Theory Score is calculated as the average of the score of two Partial Exams:

    Theory Score = 0.5 * Partial 1 Score + 0.5 * Partial 2 Score

this mark is computed only if the Partial Scores are both equal or greater than 3.5. When the Scores are given, a date and time of an Exam Review Session will be announced.  

Retake Exam. In case the Theory Score does not achieve the 5 to pass, the student can retake the exam 1, the exam 2 or both. To compute the final Theory Score we consider the maximum between the first mark and the corresponding retake mark.

The Problem Score pursuits the student to work on the theoretical content as they are given during the course, specific problems are posed to make the student have to apply the theoretical contents just after they have been explained in the lectures. To evaluate this activity students are asked to do a weekly delivery of solved problems, and the active participation of the students in the weekly Problem Sessions.

        Problem Score = 0.7 * Deliveries Score + 0.15 * Session Attendance + 0.15 * Session-Quiz Scores

this score is included in the Final Score if the % of deliverables is superior to 70% of the total.

The Practice Score has an essential weight in the final mark, it pursuits the student to program and explore the studied techniques within the frame of the global goal of a contextualized project. Additionally, the student has to demonstrate its skills in doing all this work both, individually and in a team, and defending the final results in a presentation. The final Project Score is computed as:

        Practice Score = 0.5 * Project 1 Score + 0.5 * Project 2 Score

To compute this Score every one of the projects has to get a mark greater or equal than 6. The mark for each one of the projects is computed from a compilation of marks:

      Project 1 Score = 0.6 * Code Mark + 0.5 * Quiz Mark

• Code Mark: is derived from the evaluation of the delivered code with some test codes. These tests are prepared to evaluate correctness and efficiency.
• Quiz Mark: is evaluated with an exam where the student can access own code on personal laptop. 

Code Mark and Quiz Mark must be greater or equal than 5.

      Project 2 Score = 0.75 * Group Mark + 0.25 * Individual Mark

• Group Mark = 0.6 * Code Mark + 0.3 * Report + 0.1 * Group Presentation
• Individual Mark =  0.5 * Individual Presentation + 0.5 * Group Participation

The Code Mark and the Individual Mark must be greater orequal than 5.

Retake Sessions.  In case a Project Score does not arrive to the adequate level to pass, the students will have a retake option. In the case the student needs to retake the Individual Mark of Project 2, this will be made with a Quiz similar to the Project 1 Quiz.  In case the student requires to retake any part of the a Project Mark, then the final Project Score will be 7 as the maximum.

Single Assessment

This evaluation consists of the following activities: 

• Activities to evaluate the Theory: student has to do 2 Partial Exams that are retaken separately (50%, 25% each, 2.5 hours).
• Activities to evaluate the Problems: student has to  Deliver 12 Assignements of Solved Problems  (10%)
• Activities to evaluate the Practicum: student has to code 2 Projects requiring different evaluation activities: 
1. Code Delivery of Project 1 (12%)
2. Exam of Project 1 (8%)
3. Code Delivery Project 2 (12%)
4. Report Delivery of Project 2 (6%)
5. Oral Presentation of Project 2 (2%, 20min)

To enable the computation of the final score, some threshold has to be fulfilled by some of the scores: 

• Partial Exams 1 and 2 must be greater or equal than 3.5.
• Average score of Exams 1 and 2 must be greater or equal than a 5.
• Project 1 Code mustbe greater or equal than 6.
• Project 1 Exam must be greater or equal than 5.
• Code, Report and Oral presentation of Project 2 must be greater or equal than 5. 

Both the retake and the final qualification revision will follow the same system as theContinous Evaluation. 

Important notes:

In case the subject is not passed due to one of the evaluation activities does not arrive to the minimum required score, the final score in the transcript will be the minimum between 4.5 and the final mark obtained if the threshold is not considered, with the exception that the numeric score in the transcript will be in between 3.0 and the final mark obtained if the threshold is not considered, for the case the student have performed any irregular act in an evaluation activity, such as those explained below.

Grade will be “Non-Graded” (“No Avaluable”) in the case the student did not participate in any of the evaluation activities.

Grade will be “Honours” (“Matrícula d’Honor”) in the case the rank of the grade is less than the maximum number of honours can be given in a course, and the value of the grade is over a threshold that will be stablished by the teacher.

The evaluation and delivery dates will be published Campus Virtual cv.uab.cat and might be shifted if there is any change in the planning due to any unexpected event. Students will be informed about any change through cv.uab.cat that will be the usual communication mean between students and teachers.

For the case of students retaking the course, no recognition with grades of the previous year will be considered.

Notwithstanding other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with the academic regulations in force, assessment activities will receive a zero whenever a student commits academic irregularities that may alter such assessment. Assessment activities graded in this way and by this procedure will not be re-assessable. If passing the assessment activity or activities in question is required to pass the subject, the awarding of a zero for disciplinary measures will also entail a direct fail for the subject, with no opportunity to re-assess this in the same academic year. Irregularities contemplated in this procedure include, among others: 

• the total or partial copying of a practical exercise, report, or any other evaluation activity,
• allowing others to copy,
• unauthorized and/or non-cited use of AI tools (such as, Copilot, ChatGPT or equivalent) to solve exercises or projects or any assessed activity,
• presenting teamwork that has not been entirely done by the members of the team,
• presenting any materials 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).

 An overall grade of 5 or higher is required to pass the subject. A "non-assessable" grade cannot be assigned to students who have participated in any of the individual partial tests or the final exam.

 No special treatment will be given to students who have completed the course in previous academic years, except that the seminar grade previously obtained can be assigned to this course gradebook.

 The grade in the Transcript of Records (ToR) will be the lowest value between3.0 and the weighted average grade, in the eventof irregularities having been committed for any assessment activity (and therefore re-assessment will not be possible).