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Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Delivery of solved problems	20%	4	0.16	1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14
Individual written exam n° 1	30%	2	0.08	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14
Individual written exam n° 2	30%	2	0.08	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14
Practical/experimental works	20%	4	0.16	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Written exam for recuperation	80%	3	0.12	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14

The single assessment system is not foreseen in this subject.

The scientific-technological knowledge that the student acquired on the subject will be evaluated, together with his/her ability to analyze and synthesize, the capability of critical thinking and of applying the acquired knowledge in the resolution of the practical situations given.

The evaluation will be brought about in a continuous manner due to various fundamental objectives: the monitorization of the teaching-learning process that permits both the teacher and the student to be aware of the student’s achievement level in his/her competences and the correction -if possible- of the deviations that are produced in the process. Another objective is to motivate the students' continuous academic effort instead of the commonly-useless overwork at the last hour.

The continuous evaluation will take into account three different types of activities: 

• Two assessment tests throughout the school year that will sum up to represent 60% of the subject's final mark (30%+30%). 

• Three problem-solving assignments that will sum up to represent 20% (6.67%+6.67%+6.67%).

• A computer-using practical assessment that will represent the 20% left (proportionally ponderated by the student's assistance to each of the 5 obligatory practical sessions that build up the course).

In order to pass the subject, the following conditions will be essential: obtaining a minimum qualification of 3.5 in each of the two assessment tests, and obtaining a global grade greater or equal to 50 out of a 100 total.

The students who hadn't been able to approve the subject through this continuous evaluation process willbe given access to an additional evaluation only if they present a group of activities thatwould represent a minimum of two-thirds of the total qualification of the subject. This extended evaluation will be made up of:

• A written assessment for the recuperation of the whole course with a total importance of 80% (percentage corresponding to the original two assessments in paper and the problem-solving assignments)*.

• The aggregate of the marks in the practices using Excel, with the original 20% importance.

*If a student has obtained a mark that is equal or superior to 5 in one of the two original tests, he/she will automatically gain the right to decide to recuperate only the part that corresponds to the half of the failed course. In this case, the mark that is adapted from the already approved part of the continuous evaluation will count as a 50% of the final grades in the extended evaluation.

As for the students who are repeating the course, the instruments and the process of evaluation they experience will be the same as those of the students that are enrolled for the first time, given that they could conserve the marks they've obtained the first year in the Excel practices. This option must be formally communicated in letters in the beginning of the course, before October starts. The percentage represented by this 'convalidated activity' will be 20%, as ordinary.

The students who participated only in the evaluative activities which, as a whole, does not sum up to pass 50%, will obtain the qualification of 'Not evaluable'.

The eventual matriculations of honor* will be given according to the qualifications obtained in the continuous evaluation, which means that the recuperation assessment will not have any effect on the assignation of the possible matriculations of honor.  

* The “matrícules d’honor” are scholarships given in Spain and in Catalonia to the students that maintained the highest marksduring the school year. 

Without prejudice on other disciplinary forms that are considered opportune, and in agreement with the currently dominant academic normatives, any irregularity committed by the student that could result in a variation on the qualification of an evaluative act will be qualified with a zero. For these motives, copying, plagiarizing, or letting another student to copy one's own work (any type of work) will result in a zero, and if passing it was in any way necessary in order to approve, the whole subject will stay suspended. The evaluated activities that were qualified through these procedures will not be recoverable, and the student will directly be classified as failed in the subject, without any opportunity to recover it in the same school year.

The dates for the continuous evaluation and for the presentation of different works will be published through the virtual campus and can be subject to changes in an attempt to adapt to various incidences. These changes will always be notified via the virtual campus, for this will be the most habitual platform for the exchange of information between the teachers and the students.