Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Continuous-assessment dates, delivery of problems, practices or work will be published on Campus Virtual (https://cv.uab.cat) and on the presentation slides, specific programming may change when necessary. Any such modification will always be communicated to students through Campus Virtual, which is the usual communication platform between lecturers and students. 

a) Process and evaluation activities programmed

The assessment will be continuous and formative based on the development of the following evaluation activities:

• Problems (PP): resolution and delivery of problems and exercises proposed specifically for each session of problems, as well as the active participation in the sessions of problems.

• Practices (PL): completion of the practice reports and participation in the practical sessions. The correction of the delivered practices and their presentation will be evaluated. Although the practices will be in group, the qualifications will be individual, with questions to validate the practices delivered. In addition, the acquisition of the cross-cutting competence of working cooperatively with aspects such as the coordination and the distribution of tasks among the members of the group will be evaluated.

• Final work (TF): The teaching staff will propose a series of subjects related to the subject. A student from each group will have to communicate the selected topic and the teacher will have to validate the selection. The memory of the work and the oral presentation will be evaluated. Although the work will end in a group, thequalifications will be individual.

• Partial validation tests (PPV): of individual knowledge. This part will be composed of two tests, a first partial test performed in the middle of the course and a second partial test in the month of January. The specific dates will be communicated at the beginning of the course. Both tests are free of charge in case they are overcome with a grade greater than or equal to 4.

The PPV will contain questions of the theory classes and a problem or exercise related to the part of problems that will be taken into account for the qualification of the part of problems.  

Each evaluation activity will have a final grade that will be obtained if the following requirements are met:

• Final qualification of Partial Tests (NProv): In the event that the qualification from each of the two partials reaches 4 or more, the NProv will be the simple average of the two grades. Otherwise, the calculation will not be made and the student will have to submit to the recovery exam only for the part or parts suspended.

• Final problem qualification (NProb): The final grade will be obtained from the average of all the notes of problems and the qualifications of the problem question in each of the partial validation tests. Those students with a NProb of less than 4 will be able to take a review of this part.

• Final qualification of practices (NPract): The final grade will be obtained from the average of all practice notes. In the first class of practices, the weight of each practice will be reported in the NPract. Those students who have NPract less than 4 can not perform a recovery practice, the part of the practice is not recoverable.

• Final work qualification (NT): The final work will have two grades, the group work memorandum and the individual mark of each student based on the oral presentation and the questions posed during the exhibition. Those students who have the final suspended work will be able to do the work of a new subject proposed by the teaching staff.
  

Partial tests / Recovery tests

b) Programming of evaluation activities

The scheduling of the assessment activities will be given on the first day of the subject and will be made public through the Virtual Campus and on the website of the School of Engineering, in the exam section.

c) Recovery process

Each part of the partial tests, problems and practices will have to be exceeded with a score of 4 or more and the final work with a score of 5 to be able to calculate the final mark of the subject. Otherwise, the student will have to perform the corresponding recovery tests:

• Proof of recovery of partial exams: of individual knowledge. Only students that have not obtained the minimum mark in one of the partial exams or in the two partial examinations will be presented to this test. The partial will be recovered that does not reach the minimum mark; If both are partial will be presented to the examination of recovery of both partial.

• Problem recovery test: of individual knowledge. The students who do not obtain the minimum mark in the final note of problems will be presented to the examination of recovery of this part.

• Test of recovery of the final work: of individual knowledge. The students who do not obtain the minimum mark of the final work will do an individual work of the subject proposed by the teaching staff, as a recovery of this part.

The practical part of the subject isnot recoverable. Students who do not obtain the minimum mark in this part will besuspended the subject.

The recovery test will also apply the minimumrequired for each of the parts to which the student must present. Also, within this test, each part must be exceeded with a mark greater than or equal to 4 to be able to ponder the final grade of the subject.

To pass the subject it is necessary that the evaluation of each one of the parts exceeds the minimum required and that the total evaluation exceeds the 5 points. If you do not pass the subject for some of the two previous conditions, the numerical note of the file will be the lowest value between 4,5 and the weighted average of the notes.

Therefore, after completing the recovery test, if the calculation of the final mark of the subject is equal to or greater than 5, but the minimum required in one of the assessment activities has not been obtained, the numerical note of The file will be the lowest value between 4,5 and the weighted average of the notes.

 d) Procedure for the review of qualifications

For each assessment activity, a place, date and time of review will be indicated allowing students to review the activity with the lecturer. In this context, students may discuss the activity grade awarded by the lecturers responsible for the subject.

If students do not take part in this review, no further opportunity will be made available.

e) Special qualifications

Students who have to submit to the recovery test (to suspend one of the two partial tests or both), do not submit to the recovery, they will have a "Non-Valuable" ratingon their file.

In order to pass the course with honours, the final grade must be a 9.0 or higher. Because the number of students with this distinction cannot exceed 5% of the number of students enrolled in the course, this distinction will be awarded to whoever has the highest final grade.

Regarding the repeating students, in the case of having passed the practices, the final work or the problems, will save the Qualification obtained from the previous coursein these parts. The repeating students will not have differential treatment in the parts that they must take.

f) Irregularities by the student, copy and plagiarism

Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, irregularities committed by a student that may lead to a grade variation in an evaluable activity will be graded zero (0). 
Evaluation activities qualified in this way and by this procedure will not be recoverable. If it is necessary to pass any of these evaluation activities to pass the subject, this subject will be suspended directly, with no opportunity to recover it in the same course. 
These irregularities include, among others:
										
											- the total or partial copy of a practice, report, or any other evaluation activity;
										
											- let copy;
										
											- present a group work not done entirely by the members of the group (applied to all members, not only to those who have not worked);
										
											- unauthorized use of AI (eg Copilot, ChatGPT or equivalent) to solve exercises, practices and/or any other evaluable activity;
										
											- Submit as your own materials prepared by a third party, even if they are translations or adaptations, and in general works with non-original and exclusive elements of the student;
										
											- have communication devices (such as mobile phones, smartwatches, camera pens, etc.) accessible during individual theoretical-practical assessment tests (exams);
										
											- talk with classmates during the individual theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams);
										
											- copy or try to copy other students during the theoretical and practical evaluation tests (exams);
										
											
										
											- Use or attempt to use writings relatedto the subject during the theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams), when these have not been explicitly allowed.
										
											
										
											
										
											In future editions of this subject, students who have committed irregularities in an evaluation act will not have any of the evaluation activities carried out validated.
										
											In summary: copying, allowing copying or plagiarism (or the attempt to) in any of the evaluation activities is equivalent to a FAIL, not compensable and without validation of these parts of the subject in subsequent courses.

g) Evaluation of repeating students

Regarding the repeating students, in the case of having passed the practices, the final work or the problems, will save the qualification obtained from the previous course in theseparts. The repeating students will not have differential treatment in the parts that they must take.

h) Single assessment

This course does not provide for the single assessment system.