Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Delivery of the problems worked in group and indiviual resolution of a problem in the exam	10%	0.5	0.02	CM09, CM10, SM10
First interim test	35%	1.5	0.06	KM14, KM15
Questionnaires of the Laboratory Practicals	20%	0	0	KM14, SM11
Sec	35%	1.5	0.06	KM14, KM15

Students' progress in acquiring competences on the course will be monitored through continuous assessment or by a single term-end examination as detailed below.

Assessment of contents taught in Theory classes

The contents taught in Theory classes will have a weight of 70% of the final grade for the subject. In case of following a continuous assessment, students will have to perform two Interim Tests which the students will have to take individually. These tests will consist of a series of objective questions to show whether the students have assimilated the concepts required to pass the subject, and whether they know how to integrate and interrelate them. These tests will also include questions on the units that students will have prepared on their own to evaluate the corresponding learning outcomes.

The First Interim Test will have a weight of 35% of the final mark and will focus on the contents taught up to that moment plus two units that students will have to prepare independently.

The Second Interim Test will include the rest of the contents (although some questions can also indirectly refer to aspects of the units evaluated in the first test). This test will also include two units that students must prepare independently. The weight of this second test in the final mark will be 35%.

In case of not passing these tests, or wanting to improve the mark obtained, students will be able to perform a Recovery Exam of the contents corresponding to any of these parts (or both). Each one of these tests will include the contents related to the two previousInterim Tests and therefore its weight will again be 35%+35% of the final mark.

Students who request a single term-end examination will be able to take a Single term-end Exam that will integrate the whole theoretical content of the subject and will represent 80% of the grade. This test will take place on the same day that the other students take the Second Interim Test. These students will also be able to perform a Recovery Exam of this content which will again have a weight of 80% on the final mark and take place concurrently to the Recovery Exam of the students that follow continuous evaluation.

Assessment of contents taught in Problem-based classes

The contents related to these classes will have a weight of 10% of the final mark. In this part, students' ability when solving experimental problems related to the Theoretical content of the subject will be evaluated.

In each session, several students will be asked to orally present the solutions to the exercises programmed for that session. These students will be chosen by the teacher to ensure that all groups will be eventually involved in these presentations. With the purpose of ensuring that all students had participated in the teamwork necessary to solve these exercises, in these exhibitions the teacher will ensure that the students who present the resolutions had worked and had understood the problem (independently whether the answer is correct or not).

To ensure that the previous relative work has been done in a team, before each one of these problem sessions, students will have to submit their written answers of the scheduled exercises through the Moodle classroom (a single submission each group).They will also have toindividually answer a questionnaire related to the functioning of the teamwork tasks. This questionnaire will be prepared by the teacher and will be made available to the students through the Virtual Campus. All students must individually fill it and evaluate the participation oftheir team-mates. The aim of this questionnaire is to supervise the functioning of the work groups and to be able to detect those students who do not participate or who interfere in the teamwork. These tasks will have a weight of the 1% of the subject grade. In the event that a group does not send the solutions of the corresponding problems according to the stablished schedule, all members of that group will receive a 0 for this part.

In case of detecting a negative evaluation by the components of a group on one of its members indicating a lack of participation in the teamwork, this student will receive a 0 in the grade obtained in this part of the subject.

On the other hand, students will have to individually resolve a problem of similar characteristics to the ones worked on during the course together with the Second Interim Exam (in the case of following a continuous assessment) or together with the Single term-end Exam (in case of requesting a single term-end examination). The mark obtained in this exercise will represent 9% of the final grade for the subject.

Assessment of contents taught in Laboratory Practicals

At the end of each Laboratory lesson, students will have to individually answer a questionnaire that will contain questions related to the corresponding class. The resulting average of all marks obtained from thesetests will have a weight of 20% on the final mark of the subject.

Attendance to all six Laboratory sessions is mandatory and students must be prompt. If a student arrives late or does not attend to a given session, he/she will have the option of recovering the corresponding lesson another day by their own and under his/her responsibility (that is, they may try to attend to another session programmed for another group as long as that group is not full). In case all remaining groups are full, or that practical lesson is no longer taught, this unjustified absence will entail a penalty on the mark of this part of the subject:

- Non-attendance to one or two sessions (without justification) will imply a reduction of the average mark of this part of the subject by 25% or 50%, respectively.

- Non-attendance to more than two sessions (without justification), will imply obtaining a 0 in this part of the subject. This will represent failing the subject.

Otherwise, if a student does not attend a programed session for extenuating circumstances(i.e. health problem, death of a first- or second-degree relative, an accident, or unavoidable competitions in the case of elite student athletes), she/he will have to contact the coordinator of the subject and provide the official documentation (respectively: official medical certificate that explicitly confirms the inability to carry out the exam, police statement, justification from the competent sports organization.). This way, the coordinator will ensure that the student recovers the session in another group. Nevertheless, under no circumstances will the Laboratory Practicals (and therefore the subject) be approved if attendance to a minimum of 50% of the sessions is not met, even if absences are justified.

Moreover, if a student assist to the Laboratory Practicals without having passed the corresponding Biosecurity Tests, they will obtain a 0 in this part and therefore suspend the subject.

Since the attendance to the Laboratory Practicals is mandatoryand its evaluation is carried out within the time frame intended for their development, these contents will be evaluated in the same way by all students enrolled in the subject independently whether they do continuous assessment or single term-end examination.

 

Globally, the maximum mark that can be obtained after completing all these activities will be 10 points (out of 10). And to be able to pass the subject, the following conditions must be fulfilled:

- Obtaining a mark equal to or greater than 4 points (out of 10) in each Interim Test or in the corresponding parts of the Recovery Exam (in case of following continuous assessment).

- Obtaining a mark equal to or greater than 4 points (out of 10) in the Single term-end Exam or in the Recovery Exam (in case of following single term-end examination).

- Obtaining an average mark equal to or greater than 4 points (out of 10) from the questionnaires performed in the Laboratory sessions.

- Obtaining anoverall mark of ≥5 (outof10) for all evaluations received.

 

ADDITIONAL ASPECTS

If a student decides to take the Recovery Exam to improve the mark obtained, he/she will lose all previously obtained Theory marks.

Students will be considered "not assessable" if the combined weight of all the evaluation activities they have done is less than 67% of the final mark.

Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for that. In case of recurrence, the students will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject.

In the case of students who do not pass the subject in a given academic year, the marks obtained in the Problem-based classes and in the Laboratory Practicals will be kept for further curses whenever the competences associated with these classes have been obtained (i.e. obtaining >5 points out of 10 in each). Otherwise, they will have to repeat the evaluation activities to obtain the corresponding grade. This exemption will be maintained for a period of three additional enrolments.

Students who are unable to attend an exam due to extenuating circumstances (i.e. health problem, death of a first- or second-degree relative, an accident, or unavoidable competitions in the case of elite student athletes) and who provide official documentation to the degree coordinator (respectively: official medical certificate that explicitly confirms the inability to carry out the exam, police statement, justification from the competent sports organization), will be entitled to perform the test on anotherday. Boththe bachelor’s degree coordinator and the responsible teacher will do as much as possible to resolve these situations.