Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Assessable practice activities	30%	2	0.08	5, 2, 4, 7
Exercises delivering	20%	8	0.32	2, 7
Three partial tests and/or final test	50%	8	0.32	6, 3, 5, 1, 2, 4, 7

This course does not include single assessment.

a) Assessment activities

Student assessment includes the following activities:

1. Three individual partial tests (one test per block) carried out face-to-face, in a controlled environment, and in written format. These partials tests assess the student's acquired knowledge and his/her skills designing efficient circuits and systems.
2. Exercises resolution: a set of on-line exercises, with automatic grading, must be delivered on previously scheduled dates.
3. The viewing of videos before attending the class.
4. Activities in which students must demonstrate the skills acquired during the development of the practices.

The mark of the course by continued assessment (CA) is obtained from:

1. (activity 1) the mark obtained in the 3 partial tests (PT1, PT2, PT3),
2. (activities 2 and 3) the delivery of exercises and video viewing (Pb),
3. (activity 4) the note of the evaluable activities of practices (LT)

where: PT = (PT1+PT2+PT3)/3

 To pass the course by continued assessment (CA) the following conditions must be met:

1. CA ≥ 5,
2. PT1, PT2, and PT3 must be ≥ 4, and CA must be ≥ 5; and
3. LT must be ≥ 5

 

b) Assessment activities: scheduling

Dates of the assessment tests and the submission of exercises are published in the Virtual Campus (VC) and may be subject to changes in programming due to unforeseen eventualities. Any modification will be reported through this platform.

It is important to bear in mind that no assessment activities will be permitted for any studentat a different date or time to that established, unless for justified causes duly advised before the activity and with the lecturer’s previous consent. In all other cases, if an activity has not been carried out, this cannot be re-assessed.

c) Recovery process

The evaluation activity 1 corresponding to the theory can be recovered in the final test.

1)     If the grade obtained in one or two of the partial tests PP1, PP2 or PP3 is < 4, this qualification must be passed by taking a recovery exam of the corresponding block/s. To pass the course the grade obtained in this exam must be ≥ 5 (it will be a global note of the two partials to recover), and the new average PP of the partials must be ≥ 5.

2)     If a student has obtained a mark < 4 in three partial tests, the student must take a new exam that will include the entire course. The grade obtained will be the new PP, which must be ≥ 5 to pass the course.

Activities 2 and 3 (delivery of exercises and video viewing) which corresponds to 20% of the final grade cannot be recovered.

Activity 4 can be recovered by carrying out a specific recovery activity related to the practices.

If PT < 5 or LT < 5 after retaking these new tests, the final score of the course will be the lowest number between CA and 4.5.

d) Grades review

Grades obtained by students in each test are published in the VC. Once the grades are published, students will be informed of the procedure to follow to review their exam. Students must request, through the VC, an exam review, and will receive a call with the day and time to do it through TEAMS.

Any student who does not follow this procedure, within the time frame established, may not request a new review.

e) Special grades

• A "non-assessable" grade cannot be assignedtostudents who have participated in any of the individual partial tests or practices.
• In order to reach the qualification “with Honours”, the final grade must be ≥ 9.0. 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.

 

f) Irregularities committed by the student, copy and plagiarism

Notwithstanding other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with the academic regulations in force, assessment activities will receive a zero whenever a student commits academic irregularities that may alter such assessment. Assessment activities graded in this way and by this procedure will not be re-assessable. If passing the assessment activity or activities in question is required to pass the subject, the awarding of a zero for disciplinary measures will also entail a direct fail for the subject, with no opportunity to re-assess this in the same academic year.

Irregularities contemplated in this procedure include, among others:

• the total or partial copying of a test, practical exercise, report, or any other evaluation activity;
• allowing others to copy;
• presenting group work that has not been done entirely by the members of the group;
• unauthorized use of AI (eg Copilot, ChatGPT or equivalent) to solve exercises, practices and/or any other evaluable activity
• presenting any materials prepared by a third part as one’s own work, even if these materials are translations or adaptations, including work that is not original or exclusively that of the student;
• having communication devices such as mobile phones, smart watches, etc., accessible during theoretical-practical in-class assessment tests (individual exams).
• talk to peers during individual theoretical-practical assessment tests (exams);
• copy orattempt to copy from other students during theoretical-practical assessment tests (exams); - use or attempt to use writings related to the subject during the performance of the theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams), when these have not been explicitly allowed.

 

g) Assessment of students who followed the subject last year but do not successfully passed it

Students who completed and passed the laboratory practices in in one of the previous two years but did not pass the course, may choose not to repeat them again during the current academic year. In that case, the laboratory practices grade (LT) will be 5, regardless of the grade reached the previous year.

The list of students who can choose this option will be published at the beginning of the course in the VC. If, anyway, the student wants to make the laboratory practices again, he/she must communicate it by mail to the practice Coordinator.

If a student has committed irregularities (copies/plagiarism) in any evaluation activity in a previous call of the subject he will not have the right to have his practices validated (if he had approved them).

From the second matriculation and if the student has the approved practices and chooses to validate them, you can choose that the evaluation system is:

1. make the normal evaluation (continues + final recovery) established in the section "a) Process and programmed evaluation activities" where a 5 would be maintained to the practices (if you have passed them) but the grade of the exercises would not be maintained.
2. replace the continuous evaluation with a final exam (on the date of the third part) and take into account your grade of practices and exercises of the previous course (5 maximum in each case):

final grade = 0.5 * final test + 0.3 * grade of the practices of the previous course (a 5) + 0.2 *note previous courseexercises (maximum a 5)

If the student fails he has a second chance in this alternative 2) which would be to do again a final exam of the whole subject on the dates of the final recovery, maintaining the same conditions for the practices and the exercises (maximum a 5)

To be eligible for this differentiated evaluation (2), repeating students must request it from the person responsible for the subject by email no later than 15 days after the start of classes.