Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Attendance and seminars	15%	1	0.04	1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11
Exam	35%	2	0.08	3, 4, 5, 6, 10
Research project	50%	2	0.08	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12

The work of the students during the course will be mainly structured around a collective research project. This research project will be followed up and evaluated through three partial deliveries that will be made progressively throughout the course. The project will be presented in an oral defense. The set of these tasks will mean 50% of the final grade.

Additionally, a final written exam will be carried out that will represent 35% of the final grade. The remaining 15% of the evaluation will be achieved by assisting in practical sessions and tasks associated with them. Each of these parts must achieve a minimum degree of sufficiency. In order to obtain the average of the course it is necessary to complete all the activities corresponding to the research project and the activity corresponding to the individual exam.

At the beginning of the semester, a general schedule of the course will be made available to the students. In it, the dates of the evaluable activities will be indicated.

 

I) Group assessment

The group assessment aims to capture the ability to work as a team and develop a research project in each of its phases. This evaluation will consist of the realization of a research project that will be evaluated in a continuous way from three assignments, from the revision by the professors and from the attendance to classroom workshops linked to its realization. An oral presentation of the research project will be made at the end of the course. It represents 50% of the final grade (40% written and follow-up text; 10% oral presentation). Within the framework of this research project, each member of the group will have to develop an individual interview.

Late deliverables will not be accepted. Those deliverables that have not been exceeded may be reevaluated, applying the penalty specified for these activities.

 

II) Individual assessment

The individual assessment will be based on the completion of an individual written exam that aims to capture the degree of the knowledge acquired throughout the theoretical and practical sessions. It represents 35% of the final grade.

 

III) Classroom workshops

Throughout the course there will be several classroom workshops focused on applying the theoretical content of the course. Some of these seminars are proposed as seminars to support group projects. Therefore, topics directly related to some stages of a research project or directly related to research resources and techniques will be covered. It represents 15% of the final grade.

 

IV) Suspended and "not assessable"

Both in group work and in the individual test, it is necessary a 3 out of 10 to be able to average between the two evaluations.

For the individual written exam, students can access a recovery exam. The format of this exam will be decided by the teaching staff of the subject.

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

 

V) Copy and/or Plagiarism

In case of any irregularity of this type, the evaluated activity will be assessed with a 0 (see Article 116. Item 10. Of the Academic Regulations of the UAB "In case the student makes any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation of the grade of an evaluation act, willbe rated with 0 this evaluation act, regardless of the disciplinary process that can be instructed, in case there are several irregularities in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade of this subject will be 0.", available at http://www.uab.cat/doc/TR_Normativa_Academica_Plans_Nous).

The students who copy or try to copy on an exam will have a 0 in the subject and will lose the right to re-evaluation. The students who present a practice in which there is evidence of plagiarism or who cannot justify the arguments of their practice will receive a 0 and receive a warning. In case of repetition of the behaviour, the students will fail the subject (0) and will lose the right to re-evaluation.

 

 VI) Single assessment

The single assessment will be composed of three assessment activities: the completion of a research project, the presentation of this project in a short video, and an individual written exam. It is necessary to contact the teaching staff for more information about the assessment activities. For the research project, at least two follow-up tutorials are recommended (one at the beginning of the course and one of student’s choice). The assessment activities are listed below.

Title: Individual research project

Weight: 40%.

Re-evaluation: The same recovery system will be applied as for continuous assessment.

 

Title: Short video of the research project

Weight: 15%

Re-evaluation: The same recovery system as for continuous assessment will be applied.

 

Title: Individual written exam

Weight: 45%

Re-evaluation: The same recovery system as for continuous assessment will be applied.

 

The same criterion of non-assessable as for continuous assessment will be applied.