Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Assessment

This subject does not incorporate the single-assessment option.

Besides the usual participatory responsibilities (class participation, assigned readings) there will be regular homework, quizzes and assignments, a written midterm exam, as well as a final written and oral exam. The written exams will include the assigned readings. Students will be evaluated as follows:

• 75% of the final mark will correspond to two written exams (25% each) and an oral exam (25%). The pass mark for exams is 5 out of 10. 
• 10% of the final mark corresponds to one or two assignments, which may include a mock oral exam and another assignment to be determined, which students will carry out individually.
• The remaining 15% will correspond to class participation, homework, quizzes and practical exercises done in class.

Exact dates for all evaluation activities will be confirmed at the start of the course through a course calendar published on the class Moodle.

Note:

• All the assignments and tests are COMPULSORY.
• To pass the course, the following conditions need to be fulfilled:
• The final oral exam needs to be passed.
• The combination of the marks of the two written exams needs to average out to a 5 or higher. If one of the two written exams is failed, it will need to have a minimum mark of 4.
• A final mark of “No avaluable” (Not assessed/Not submitted) can only be obtained if the student has completed a maximum of one exam and the assignment. Therefore, the completion of two exams excludes the possibility of obtaining the “No avaluable”.
• The students’ command of English will be taken into account when marking all exercises and for the final mark.

Reassessment conditions

• Reassessment of the course material will be item-by-item when the following conditions are met:
• The student has a minimum course mark of 3.5/10.
• The student has completed all the evaluation items.
• One of the written exams must be passed.
• The maximum mark that can be obtained at reassessment exam is a 5 out of 10.
• The reassessment dates are assigned by the university and will not be changed to suit individual students' needs. 
• Missed tests can only be retaken if the student provides documented justification of their absence.
• Lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the date and place of the reassessment exams.
• Evaluation activities excluded from reassessment. The following activities are not eligible for reassessment: assignments, quizzes, and assigned exercises.

Procedure for Reviewing Grades Awarded.

On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.

IMPORTANT:

In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation  in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this  activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as  the final grade for this subject. Irregularities refer, for instance, to copying in an exam, copying from sources without indicating authorship, or a misuse of AI such as presenting work as original that has been generated by an AI tool or programme. These evaluation activities will not be re-assessed.

Partial or total plagiarizing will immediately result in a FAIL (0) for the plagiarized exercise. Repeated instances of plagiarism will result in a FAIL (0) of the whole subject. PLAGIARISING consists of copying text from unacknowledged sources –whether this is part of a sentence or a whole text– with the intention of passing it off as the student’s own production. It includes cutting and pasting from internet sources, presented unmodified in the student’s own text. Plagiarizing is a SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors’ intellectual property, always identifying the sources they may use; they must also be responsible for the originality and authenticity of their own texts.