Assessment

Students' progress in acquiring competences on the course will be monitored through continuous assessment or by a single term-end examination as detailed below.

Assessment of contents taught in Theory classes

The contents taught in Theory classes will have a weight of 70% of the final grade for the subject. In case of following a continuous assessment, students will have to perform two Interim Tests which the students will have to take individually. These tests will consist of a series of objective questions to show whether the students have assimilated the concepts required to pass the subject, and whether they know how to integrate and interrelate them. These tests will also include questions on the units that students will have prepared on their own to evaluate the corresponding learning outcomes.

The First Interim Test will have a weight of 35% of the final mark and will focus on the contents taught up to that moment plus two units that students will have to prepare independently.

The Second Interim Test will include the rest of the contents (although some questions can also indirectly refer to aspects of the units evaluated in the first test). This test will also include two units that students must prepare independently. The weight of this second test in the final mark will be 35%.

In case of not passing these tests, or wanting to improve the mark obtained, students will be able to perform a Recovery Exam of the contents corresponding to any of these parts (or both). Each one of these tests will include the contents related to the two previousInterim Tests and therefore its weight will again be 35%+35% of the final mark.

Students who request a single term-end examination will be able to take a single Final Exam that will integrate the whole theoretical content of the subject and will represent 80% of the grade. This test will take place on the same day that the other students take the Second Interim Test. These students will also be able to perform a Recovery Exam of this content which will again have a weight of 80% on the final mark and take place concurrently to the Recovery Exam of the students that follow continuous evaluation.

Assessment of contents taught in Problem-based classes

The contents related to these classes will have a weight of 10% of the final mark. In this part, students' ability when solving experimental problems related to the Theoretical content of the subject will be evaluated.

In each session, several students will be asked to orally present the solutions to the exercises programmed for that session. These students will be chosen by the teacher to ensure that all groups will be eventually involved in these presentations. With the purpose of ensuring that all students had participated in the teamwork necessary to solve these exercises, in these exhibitions the teacher will ensure that the students who present the resolutions had worked and had understood the problem (independently whether the answer is correct or not).

To ensure that the previous relative work has been done in a team, before each one of these problem sessions, students will have to submit their written answers of the scheduled exercises through the Moodle classroom (a single submission each group).They will also have toindividually answer a questionnaire related to the functioning of the teamwork tasks. This questionnaire will be prepared by the teacher and will be made available to the students through the Virtual Campus. All students must individually fill it and evaluate the participation oftheir team-mates. The aim of this questionnaire is to supervise the functioning of the work groups and to be able to detect those students who do not participate or who interfere in the teamwork. These tasks will have a weight of the 1% of the subject grade. In the event that a group does not send the solutions of the corresponding problems according to the stablished schedule, all members of that group will receive a 0 for this part.

In case of detecting a negative evaluation by the components of a group on one of its members indicating a lack of participation in the teamwork, this student will receive a 0 in the grade obtained in this part of the subject.

On the other hand, students will have to individually resolve a problem of similar characteristics to the ones worked on during the course together with the Second Interim Exam (in the case of following a continuous assessment) or together with the Final Exam (in case of requesting a single term-end examination). The mark obtained in this exercise will represent 9% of the final grade for the subject.

 

Assessment of contents taught in Laboratory Practicals

At the end of each Practical lesson, students will have to individually answer a questionnaire that will contain questions related to the corresponding class. The resulting average of all marks obtained from thesetests will have a weight of 20% on the final mark of the subject.

Attendance to all six practical sessions is mandatory and students must be prompt. If a student arrives late or does not attend to a given session, he/she will have the option of recovering the corresponding lesson another day by their own and under his/her responsibility (that is, they may try to attend to another session programmed for another group as long as that group is not full). In case all remaining groups are full, or that practical lesson is no longer taught, this unjustified absence will entail a penalty on the mark of this part of the subject:

- Non-attendance to one or two sessions (without justification) will imply a reduction of the average mark of this part of the subject by 25% or 50%, respectively.

- Non-attendance to more than two sessions (without justification), will imply obtaining a 0 in this part of the subject. This will represent failing the subject.

Otherwise, if a student does not attend a programed session for extenuating circumstances(i.e. health problem, death of a first- or second-degree relative, an accident, or unavoidable competitions in the case of elite student athletes), she/he will have to contact the coordinator of the subject and provide the official documentation (respectively: official medical certificate that explicitly confirms the inability to carry out the exam, police statement, justification from the competent sports organization.). This way, the coordinator will ensure that the student recovers the session in another group.

Moreover, if a student assist to the Laboratory Practicals without having passed the corresponding Biosecurity Tests, they will obtain a 0 in this part and therefore suspend the subject.

Since the attendance to theLaboratoryPracticals is mandatoryand its evaluation is carried out within the time frame intended for their development, these contents will be evaluated in the same way by all students enrolled in the subject independently whether they do continuous assessment or single term-end examination.

MARKING SYSTEM

Regarding the Theory contents, in order to have the right to the 70% of the final grade corresponding to this part, students that follow a continuous assessment process will have to perform two Interim Tests. For the marks obtained in the two Interim Tests to be taken into account, it will be necessary to obtain a mark higher than 4 (out of 10) in each one of them. Students who do not achieve this mark will be able to retake the corresponding parts in the Recovery Exam (to be eligible for the retake process in the Final Exam, students must have been previously evaluated in the two previous Interim Tests). If a student who has passed the subject by performing the two Interim Tests decides to take the Final Exam to improve the mark obtained, he/she will lose all previously obtained interim marks.

In case of requesting a single term-end examination, students will only be able to perform a single Final Exam including all contents of the program to access to the 70% of the grade (corresponding to the theory content). They must obtain a mark higher than 4 (out of 10) in this exam so that this mark can be accounted in the final grade of the subject. If they do not achieve this score or if they want to raise their grade, these students will be able to perform a Recovery Exam which will again include all contentsofthe subject.

In the evaluation of the contents related to the Problem-based classes, in order to have the right to the 10% of the final grade corresponding to this part, students will have to work in team in the resolution of the submitted exercises and individually solve a problem during the second Interim Test (in the case of following a continuous assessment) or during the Final Exam (in the case of following single term-end examination).

In the evaluation of the contents related to the Laboratory Practicals, in order to have the right to the 20% of the final grade corresponding to this part, students must have attended the six practical sessions and obtain a mark higher than 4 (out of 10) as an average mark of all performed questionnaires. In case of not achieving this qualification, students will fail the subject.

Globally, the maximum mark that can be obtained after completing all these activities will be 10 points (out of 10). And to be able to pass the subject, the following conditions must be fulfilled:

- Obtaining a mark equal to or greater than 4 points (out of 10) in each Interim Test or in the corresponding parts of the Recovery Exam (in case of following continuous assessment).

- Obtaining a mark equal to or greater than 4 points (out of 10) in the Final Exam or in the Recovery Exam (in case of following single term-end examination).

- Obtaining an average mark equal to or greater than 4 points (out of 10) from the questionnaires performed in the Laboratory sessions.

- Obtaining anoverall mark of ≥5 (outof10) for all evaluations received.

 

All factors to be considered in the marking systems established for this subject related to the continuous assessment are summarized in the following table: 

	ASSESSMENT		WEIGHT	MINIMUM MARK TO QUALIFY	ADDITIONAL FACTORS
THEORY CLASSES (70%)	Mark for the 1r Interim Test		35%	≥4 points (out of 10)	Students with a failed mark can retake the corresponding part in the Final Exam
	Mark for the 2n Interim Test		35%	≥4 points (out of 10)
	Recovery Exam	Mark for the reassessment of the 1r Interim Test	35%	≥4 points (out of 10)	Both Interim Tests must be performed previously. Trying to improve the grades obtained implies losing the previously obtained interim marks.
		Mark for the reassessment ofthe 2n InterimTest	35%	≥4 points (out of 10)
PROBLEM-BASED CLASSES (10%)	Mark for the exercise completed individually during the 2n interim test		9%	N/A	N/A
	Exercises submission + teamwork questionnaire		1%	N/A	It is mandatory to participate in the teamwork and to obtain a favorable evaluation in the team-work questionnaire.
LABORATORY PRACTICALS (20%)	Average mark of the questionnaires completed along the laboratory practicals		20%	≥4 points (out of 10)	The assistance is mandatory. It is necessary to pass the Biosecurity Tests.
	FINAL MARK		100%	≥5 points (out of 10)

 

All factors to be considered in the marking systems established for this subject related to the single term-end examination are summarized in the following table: 

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	WEIGHT	MINIMUM MARK TO QUALIFY	ADDITIONAL FACTORS
THEORY CLASSES (70%)	Mark for the Final Exam	35%	≥4 points (out of 10)	N/A
	Mark for the Recovery Exam	35%	≥4 points (out of 10)	Trying to improve the grade obtained implies losing the previously obtained mark
PROBLEM-BASED CLASSES(10%)	Mark for the exercise completed individually during the Final Exam	9%	N/A	N/A
	Exercises submission + teamwork questionnaire	1%	N/A	It is mandatory to participate in the teamwork and to obtain a favorable evaluation in the team-work questionnaire.
LABORATORY PRACTICALS (20%)	Average mark of the questionnaires completed along the laboratory practicals	20%	≥4 points (out of 10)	The assistance is mandatory. It is necessary to pass the BiosecurityTests.
FINAL MARK	100%	≥5 points (out of 10)

 

ADDITIONAL ASPECTS

Students will be considered "not assessable" if the combined weight of all the evaluation activities they have done is less than 67% of the final mark.

Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for that. In case of recurrence, the students will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject.

In the case of students who do not pass the subject in a given academic year, the marks obtained in the Problem-based classes and in the Laboratory Practicals will be kept for further curses whenever the competences associated with these classes have been obtained (i.e. obtaining >5 points out of 10 in each). Otherwise, they will have to repeat the evaluation activities to obtain the corresponding grade. This exemption will be maintained for a period of three additional enrolments.

Students who are unable to attend an exam due to extenuating circumstances (i.e. health problem, death of a first- or second-degree relative, an accident, or unavoidable competitions in the case of elite student athletes) and who provide official documentation to the degree coordinator (respectively: official medical certificate that explicitly confirms the inability to carry out the exam, police statement, justification from the competent sports organization), will be entitled to perform the test on anotherday. Boththe bachelor’s degree coordinator and the responsible teacher will do as much as possible to resolve these situations.