Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

This subject has a continuous evaluation process throughout the course that includes more than three evaluation activities of different types. None of them represents more than 50% of the final grade.

1.- Seminars:

Both the work to be presented on the seminar days and the activities (group and individual) that take place throughout the seminar are evaluated. This activity has no possibility of recovery. The grade corresponding to the seminars has an overall weight of 20% of the final grade.

2.- Theory:

• Partial exams: These exams assess individually the knowledge gained by students in the subject, as well as their ability to analyze, synthesize, and critical reasoning. The exam has a part of test-type questions and another of conceptual questions, schemes, etc. There will be 2 partial eliminatory exams, one corresponding to the part of Arthropods and the other to that of Chordates.

• Final exam: Students who do not pass one of the two partial exams (minimum mark: 4 out of 10), will have the opportunity to recover the part or parts not passed in the final exam. Likewise, students who wish to improve their grade in one or both parts may do so by taking the final exam. However, taking the final exam implies renouncing the grade previously obtained. The mark corresponding to each of the two exams has a weight of 30% of the final mark. In order to be able to average with the other evaluative activities (seminars and practices) the average mark of the two exams must be equal or superior to 4.

3.- Practices: Attendance at the practical sessions is mandatory. At the end of each practical session, only the students who have attended the session will take an individualized test that assesses the utilization and achievement of the specific competencies of each practice. Each part (Arthropods and Chordates) will account for 10% of the final grade. Therefore,the overall weight of the practical sessions will be 20% of the final grade. In order to average with the other assessment activities, the average grade of the laboratory practicals must be equal to or greater than 4. This activity cannot be retaken.

Single evaluation:

Students who take the single evaluation must do the laboratory (PLAB) and field (PCAM) practices in in-person sessions and it is necessary to have them approved and they will have a weight of 20%. Classroom practices (PAUL) will also be compulsory attendance, which will have a weight on the final grade that will be the same as that of the continuous assessment (20%).
The single evaluation consists of a single exam (with multiple choice and open-ended questions) on the contents of the entire theory program.
The grade obtained in the exam is 60% of the final grade of the course, the grade obtained in the laboratory practicals 20%, and the classroom practicals the remaining 20%.
The single evaluation exam will coincide with the same date fixed in the calendar for the last continuous assessment exam and the same recovery system will be applied as for the continuous assessment.

To pass the subject you must obtain a final grade of at least 5 out of 10 in all the assessment activities and a minimum grade of 4 out of 10 in the theory part.

Final considerations:

To participate in the recovery, students must have been previously assessed in a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of two thirds of the total grade of the subject. Therefore, students will obtain the grade of "Not evaluable" when the evaluation activities carried out have a weighting of less than 67% in the final grade.

Students who can not attend to an evaluaction activity for a justified cause and provide the corresponding official documentation, will be allowed to take the evaluation activity on another date.