Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

This course uses a continuous assessment model uniquely. Given its dynamism and the involvement that students are asked for in all class sessions (both those of a more theoretical nature and the more practical ones), teachers will have multiple elements to be able to evaluate students. Active participation in classes, resolution of exercises or activities in class, are examples of evidence for evaluation. For this reason, class attendance in this subject is mandatory.

Beyond the evaluation based on the contributions in the classes, the students will also have to deliver different works, exercises or activities that will be proposed throughout the course on the virtual campus of the UAB, deliveries that will complement the evaluation evidence of students. The evaluation of the participation might also include individual exam-like exercises to be done in class.

On the other hand, the presentation of the subject that the students will carry out in the theoretical sessions of the subject will also form part of the evaluation evidence.

Final evaluation and grades: The final evaluation is calculated by weighting the evaluation activities as follows:

      - Participation in class (activities, exercises, problems, etc.): 30%
      - Practical work: 50%
      - Preparation and presentation of theme: 20%

Both the practical work and the presentation of the topic require a minimum grade of 5. If any of these parts are not passed, it may be recovered, although in this case the maximum grade for the recovered part will be 5.

In case of not passing the evaluation of class participation, it cannot be recovered.

Students who achieve the minimum number of points to pass the subject, but have not reached the minimum grade in any of the evaluation activities, will be evaluated with a final grade of 4.5.In the event that the subject has not been passed due to a zero grade for an activity due to copying, the final grade for the subject will be a 3, a fact that will not allow this subject to be compensated (see section on ethical commitment).

Those students who do not hand in any of the proposed activities will obtain the qualification of "Not Assessable". Participation in any of these evaluation activities will mean receiving a different qualification of "Not Assessable".

Honors: Awarding an honors grade (MH) is the decision of the faculty responsible for the subject. The UAB regulations indicate that the MH may only be awarded to students who have obtained a final grade equal to or greater than 9.00. Up to 5% MH of the total number of students enrolled can be awarded.

Repeating students: No type of validation of the evaluable activities is contemplated for repeating students. This measure could be relaxed depending on the course and specific activity. If this were the case, the conditions and mechanisms for this will be announced at the beginning of the course.

Activities calendar: The dates of continuous evaluation and delivery of work will be published on the virtual campus and may be subject to changes in the programming for reasons of adaptation to possible incidents. These possible changes will always be reported on the virtual campus and in class, since these are the channels for exchanging information between teachers and students.

Grade review procedure: For each assessment activity, a review place, date and time will be indicated in which students will be able to review the activity with the teaching staff. In this context, claims may be made about the grade for the activity, which will be evaluated by the teaching staff responsible for the subject. If the student does not show up for this review, this activity will not be reviewed later.

Ethical commitment:

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). The 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 directly suspended, 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 carried out 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 generally works with non-original and exclusive elements of the student;
- have communication devices (such as mobile phones, smart watches, camera pens, etc.) accessible during individual theoretical-practical assessment tests (exams);
- talk with classmates during individual theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams);
- copy or try to copy from other students during the theoretical and practical evaluation tests (exams);
- Use or attempt to use writings related to the subject during the theoretical-practical evaluation tests (exams), when these have not been explicitly allowed.

The numerical mark of the file will be the lower value between 3.0 and the weighted average of the marks in case the student has committed irregularities in an actof evaluation (and, therefore, it will not be possible to pass by compensation). In future editions of this course, 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, non-compensable and without validation of parts of the subject in subsequent courses.

Single assessment: This subject does not contemplate the single assessment system.