Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Continuous assessment tests (3)	25%	6	0.24	1, 2, 3
Final exam	50%	2	0.08	1, 2, 3
Laboratory (6)	25%	6	0.24	4, 5, 6, 7
Make-up exam	50%	2	0.08	1, 2, 3

a) Procedure and assessment activities’ plan

The assessment is continuous with specific activities (exams and assignments) throughout the course. These assessment activities generate a series of grades that determine the final grade.

The calculation of the final grade, n, follows the expression:

n = max(x·50% + c·25%,  x·75%) + p·25%

where x, c, and p are the grades of the exam, continuous assessment, and laboratory practices, respectively.

If the continuous assessment grade is smaller than the exam grade, c < x, the final grade does not take it into account. Therefore, the final grade is the maximum between the final grade with and without continuous assessment.

If x < 5 or p < 5, the final grade (n) is at most 4.5. In other words, the exam and practicals must be passed separately.

The grade for the practical part (p) is obtained from the weighted average of the grades corresponding to each practice session. Five are expected to be evaluated. In case of non-attendance, the absent person will have a 0 as a grade for the corresponding session.

The exam grade (x) is the final exam grade, which can be recovered in a second exam.

The continuous assessment grade (c) is obtained from a weighted average of the continuous assessment tests taken throughout the course. Three are planned.

Grades on continuous assessment tests can be increased with benefits gained from active participation in problem seminars. Information regarding the mechanisms for obtaining these bonuses will be made public with due advance notice during the course.

If the continuous assessment grade is equal to or higher than 5 and the three continuous assessment tests have been taken, there is no need to take the final exam and x = c.

b) Assessment activities schedule

The dates of the continuous assessment theory and problem-solving tests, assignment submission deadlines will be published on the Campus Virtual (CV) and may change to adapt to eventual incidents: it will always be reported previously through the CV since it is understood that it is the usual communication platform between lecturers and students outside the classroom.

c) Re-assessment procedures

Late submissions, subject to prior notice, will be accepted and penalized with a lower grade. Late submissions without prior notice or justification of force majeure will not be accepted. A second submission period may be opened for reports that receive a negative evaluation. Unaccepted or unsubmitted assignment reports will be scored 0 and will not have the option of a second assessment.

In accordance with the coordination of the Degree and the deanship of the School of Engineering, the following activities cannot be re-assessed:

- Project, 25% of the final grade

The continuous assessment can be made up by the final examination.

There is a make-up exam for the final examination, too.

d) Assessment review procedure

Assessment activities can be reviewed any time after corresponding grades are published and before the deadline for the revision of the final exam.

Should the change of a grade be agreed upon, that grade may not be modified in a later review.

No reviews will be done after the closure of the reviews of the final exam, but for the make-up exam.

e) Grading

A “non-assessable” grade is assigned to students that have not participated in any assessment activity. In any other case, notparticipating inan assessment activity scores 0 in the weighted average computation.

Honours will be awarded to those who obtain grades greater than or equal to 9.0 in each part, up to 5% of those enrolled in descending order of final grade. They may also be granted in other cases, provided that they do not exceed 5% and the final grade is equal to or greater than 9.0.

f) Irregularities, copies and plagiarism

Copies are evidences that the work or the examination has been done in part or in full without the author's intellectual contribution. This definition also includes attempts of copying in exams and reports, and violations of the norms that ensure intellectual authorship. Plagiarisms refer to the works and texts of other authors that are passed on as their own. They are a crime against intellectual property. To avoid plagiarism, quote the sources you use when writing the corresponding work reports or examinations.

In accordance with the UAB regulations, copies or plagiarisms or any attempt to alter the assessment result, for oneself of for others, like e.g. letting other copy, imply a final grade for the corresponding part (exam, continuous assessment or project) of 0 in the computation of the final score and failing the course. This does not limit the right to take action against perpetrators, both in the academic field and in the criminal.

g) Assessment of repeaters

There is no differentiated treatment for repeaters, but they can take advantage of their own material from the previous year provided it is informed in the corresponding reports.

h) Single assessment

This course does not have a single assessment procedure.