Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Requirements to pass the course

Students must follow the course (minimum attendance of 80% of the theoretical classes and seminars) in order to pass the course. Absences can only be justified for reasons of sickness or others of force majeure and for academic reasons previously authorized by the teaching staff. Only if it follows but does not exceed the partial evaluations, could it recover the parts not passed in the recovery test.

To pass the subject, in addition to the minimum attendance of 80%, it is necessary to obtain a minimum grade of 5 in each of the two parts in which the course is structured (First part: block 1 and 2 and topic alcohol; Second part: from cannabinoids to block 5).

Students will be assessed as long as they have completed a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 of the total grade of the subject. If the value of the activities carried out does not reach this threshold, the teacher of the subject can consider the student as not evaluable.

Continuous assessment

During the course there will be two calls for partial evaluations of the subject. The dates will be communicated to the students on the first day of class. These evaluations, if they are passed, will serve to eliminate material from the final multiple choice exam. Each exam will lead to an independent note. Questions will be multiple choice items with five answer options and only one valid choice.

A correction will be applied to discard the random hits [Corrected score = (hits - (errors / 4))] that will be transformed into a note that can vary between 0 and 10.

After each examination, the students will have a period of 24 hours to send, through Moodle, comments or complaints about the questions, which will be analyzed by the faculty before publishing theprovisional list of grades. Subsequently, once the list has been published, students will have 2 days to contact the teaching staff to request a meeting to review the exam.

Students will have two opportunities to overcome each of the two parts: the first, in the continuous assessment and the second in the final multiple choice exam.

Recovery Test

Students who have not passed the subject by means of the continuous evaluation and who have fulfilled the minimum attendance of 80% or students who have opted for the single evaluation can be submitted to a recovery test. The date will be communicated on the first day of class. The test will consist of two parts: a) First partial of theory and seminaries; and b) Second partial of theory and seminaries. In the case of students with continuous evaluation, this should only be examined from the party that has not passed in the continued evaluations.

The characteristics of the exams as well as the formula for calculating the mark will be the same as those of the continuous evaluations.

After each exam, the student will have a 24-hour period to send, via Moodle, comments or claims on the questions, which will be analyzed by the teacher before publishing the provisional list of notes. After the list has been published, students will have two days to contact the teaching team to request a meeting to review the exam.

Students who have already passed the entire subject or part of the subject in the ongoing evaluations and who wish to submit to improve the note of one or more parts will be able to do so as long as they communicate it to the subject coordinator, through Moodle, at least three days in advance. Submission to an exam to improve the mark will not imply the renunciation of the mark obtained in the corresponding evaluation test.

Students who have not passed the subject through continuous or single evaluation and who do not present themselves on the day of the recovery testto the exam or exams of the unpasted parties will be rated as "unevaluable".

Normative anti-copy and anti-plagiarism

A student who copies or tries to copy to an exam will have a 0 in the subject and lose the right to re-evaluation. A learner who presents a practice where there are indications of plagiarism or who cannot justify the arguments of his or herpractice will get a 0 and receive a warning. In the event of a repetition of the behavior, the student will suspend the subject (0) and lose the right to recovery.

Final grade of the subject

The exam will represent 50% of the overall grade of the subject. Each of the four seminars with deliveries will account for 5% of the mark and the group work of the research proposal for 30% of the overall mark.

Final note= (mean partial exams or general theory exam * 0.5) + (minorship notes * 0.2 + (research proposal note* 0.3). This formula will only be applied in the case of the two exams of the subject or the exam of the single evaluation having been approved.

Students who have not attended a seminar in the continuous evaluation system will not be counted for participation in the work linked to the corresponding seminar.

Single Evaluation System

In this case, students will be assessed on the basis of a final test, in which the student must demonstrate that he has acquired the set of competences of the subject.

Seminar Reports: Students must submit a report on seminaries 1, 3, 4 and 7 based on the material they will receive (videos, articles, etc.) and on the elaboration and reflection on a series of questions and the bibliography consults in APA format. This part will have a weight of 5% per report, 20%, therefore, of the overall note.
Research work: the student will have to submit and orally defend a protocol to a research project in the field of addictions following the indications that it will receive on the various parts of the protocol (antecedents, justification, hypotheses, objectives, methodology, expected impact of results and bibliography in APA format). This part will have a weight of 30% of the overall note.
Test-type examination: The content worked in theory and seminars will be evaluated from a test-type examination. Questions will be multiple choice items with five answer options and only one valid option. A correction will be applied to detach random hits [corrected Punishment= (rights -(errors/4))] which will be transformed into a note that can vary between 0 and 10. After the exam, the student will have a 24-hour period to send, through the Moodle, comments or claims on the questions, which will be analyzed by the teacher before publishing the provisional list of notes. After the list has been published, students will have two days to contact the teaching team to request a meeting to review the exam. A minimum mark of 5 is required in this part to approve the subject. This part will have a weight of 50% of the overall note. The final exam questions will be derived from the course notes found on the virtual campus as well as from the book: Goldstein, A. (2001). Adiction: from biology to drug policy (Second edition). Oxford University Press.