Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

a) Assessment process and activities  
The subject is composed of the following activities:

Theory: 50% of the final grades. It is divided into two written examinations where each of the tests corresponds to 25% of the final grades.

Problems: 15% of the final grades

Laboratory: 35% of the final grades. 17% belongs to the evaluation of the work done in the sessions and 18% of a lab exam.

Students must have a minimum grade of 5 in theory and problems and a final global mark of 5.0 to pass the subject. In case of not obtaining this minimum, the numerical value in the student record will be the lower value between 4,5 and the average of the grades.

Theory evaluation will be done in the form of two written partial examinations. The test scheduling and the topics to be evaluated in each of the tests will be described in the subject planning sheet. Theory final grade will be the average of the theory tests. It is important to state here that second test will not cover the first part of the theory of the subject.

Laboratory work: Last year students can compensate last year marks by request to the theory coordinator. Lab group teams will be managed using the virtual campus. Activation date to register in a specific lab will be public in the news part of the subject in the virtual campus. Remember that attendance is compulsory for all the sessions for all the group members.

Laboratory sessions are of compulsory attendance. Students must show the adequate work of lab deliveries that will be verified by the lab teachers. Each student in the lab also must correctly answer the questions of the teachers and must deliver in due time a written report of the lab sessions. Contents of the report will be:

    Objective of the lab
    Description and proposed work: pseudo code, block design
    Descriptions of the reasons of the answers to the questions in the report
    Description of the procedures used and their functionality.
    Description of the problems found during the lab sessions and solutions proposed for the problems.
    Conclusions of the work done in the lab
    Source code of the work
    Procedure steps of building an application from provided source code

Lab teachers will evaluate the individual work done of each student. Aspects like session attitude, technical level of the work done, level of participation in the sessions, answers given to questions and descriptions done in the lab reports. Lab assessments do not have a re-examination.

b) evaluation activities calendar

The actual calendar of the evaluation activities will be published the first day of class in the virtual campus and in the Engineering school website. These dates could be modified, so any modification on calendar will be published in the virtual campus that will be the main channel of official documentation and notifications between students and teachers.

c) final examination process

Theoretical content of the subject will be evaluated in two different exams during the course. The second test will not cover the topics of the first part of the subject. Students will need a minimum score of 3.0 in each of the theory partial exams to re-examinate.

Those students that have not reached the minimum grade to pass the subject will have a final examination of the subject theory at the end of the semester. Students will have to take a final exam of each part of the subject previously evaluated with a grade smaller than a 5.0. Students must get a grade above 5.0 to pass the theoretical part and calculate the average with problems and labs for the final subject evaluation grade.

Labs and classroom problem deliveries are not re-examined.

d)Qualification revision
Foreach evaluated activity,there will be a place,date and hour for the students to review the activity with the teacher. If the student does not attend the revision date the activity will not be revised again.

e)Qualifications
A student can get the maximum qualification when the final grade is above 9. In order to provide a selection of this qualification we will consider the maximum amount of honor qualifications that can be given following the general UAB regulations.

Given the continuous evaluation methodology used in this subject, if a student delivers any evaluable proof of work like problem test, lab report or theory test it will interpreted as the student will to be evaluated and to get a different evaluation than Non-Evaluable (NA). A NA qualification can only be obtained when absolutely no delivery is made during the semester.

Last, it is important to consider the importance of correct formal expression in any delivery provided by students. The quality of the text of the deliveries will be evaluated. All errors found related to grammar, spelling or low quality text expressions will account up to 20% of the final grade.

f) Irregular behavior and plagiarism
According to the current UAB norms, and apart from any other disciplinary measures, any plagiarism activity detected in an evaluated activity will be qualified as zero (0). Activities qualified in this way will not be reexamined during the course. If plagiarism is detected in a compulsory activity, the subject will be considered not passed and there will be no further opportunities to get a new evaluation during the course. These activities include, among others:

    Total or partial copy of a lab, report or any other evaluation activity
    encourage any plagiarism activity
    deliver a group work not done by all the components of the group
    deliver material of others as it was done by the components of the group, being those translations or adaptations.
    Have communication devices during the individual evaluation tests: smartphones, smart watches, cameras installed in pens, etc.
    Speak with students during evaluation tests or exams
    Copy or try to copy from other students during the evaluation tests or exams
    Use or try to use written material during the evaluation tests or exams when these have not been explicitly permitted


In summary, any plagiarism activity in any of the evaluation activity will be equivalent to the impossibility of passing the subject, without any opportunity of re-examine in the same course and without any compensation of any part of the subject in the next courses.

g) Evaluation of students from last courses

Students taking the subject during a second year must deliver all problem and labs assessments to pass the subject.

f) Single assessment

Single assessment of the subject will have the following activities:
theory: exam, 50% of final grades
problems: exam, 15% of final grades
labs: exam, 35% of final grades

re-examination: the same system of the continuous assessment will be applied.

final assessment revision: the same system of the continuous assessment will be applied.