Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
1st partial exam	30%	2	0.08	CM05, KM10, KM11, SM09, SM10, SM12
2nd partial exam	30%	2	0.08	CM05, KM10, KM11, SM09, SM10, SM12
Evidences	25%	0	0	CM06, KM08, KM09, SM09, SM10, SM12
Laboratory practices	15%	0	0	CM05, SM09, SM10, SM11, SM12

The overall grade of the subject will be obtained through the following weighting:

- Exams (60%)

- Evidence (25%)

- Laboratory practices (15%)

To consider the course passed, the overall grade must be equal to or higher than 5.0.

 

1. PARTIAL EXAMS (60%):

There will be two written partial exams (30% each) on the concepts of theory and problems (they eliminate subject matter).

Minimum grade of 3.5 for each partial to be able to choose to pass by partial, and thus be able to calculate the final grade weighting the different assessment activities.

In order to be weighted with the Evidence and Laboratory grade, the weighted grade of the Partial Exams must be equal to or greater than 4.0.

Otherwise, the student will have to take the retrieval assesment for the partial with a lower grade, or for both partials, if that's the case. Partials can be recovered separately. The grade of the retrieval exam will replace the previous grade in the calculation of the final grade. The grade of the partials after the retrieval must also be equal to or higher than 4.0 to be able to calculate the weighted average with the other activities.

To be able to attend the recovery, the student must have previously been assessed for continuous assessment activities that are equivalent to 2/3 of the final grade.

 

2. EVIDENCE OF LEARNING (25%):

Group and/or individual assessment or self-assessment activities will be carried out in the classroom and/or outside the classroom. Deliverable evidence can include work, problems solved in class or at home, written tests in class with or without material, etc. They can be done in theory or problems class and they can be without notice.

A minimum grade of 4.0 is required in order to be weighted with the rest of the assessment activities. If the grade is lower than 4.0, there will be no possibility of passing the subject. Anevidence not presented will have a mark of 0. If the Evidences are not presented, the student will be classified as "non-evaluable", regardless of the grade of the partial exams.

The evidence cannot be recovered.

 

3. LABORATORY PRACTICES (15%):

Laboratory practices are mandatory for everyone.

The Internship Reports (to be prepared during the internship, and to be presented at the end of each internship session) will be assessed and scored. The attitude and way of working in the laboratory will also be taken into account, and also the use of the laboratory notebook (it will be checked that an outline of the practice to be carried out is prepared in the notebook, as work prior to the practice, and the good collection of laboratory data will be reviewed). Weighting: Reports 80%, and notebook/attitude 20%.

Minimum grade to be able to make a weighted average with the other assessment activities: 5.0.

In some partial exams there may be questions related to practices.

Failure to comply with the laboratory rules will result in fail the laboratory practices assessment and therefore with the impossibility of passing the subject.

There will be a session prior to the practices to explain how it works and that will be mandatory. Your attendance will be monitored and non-attendance will mean lowering the final practice grade by 3 points.

 

Not Assessed:

It will be considered Not assessed if the number of assessment activities carried out is less than 30% of the total of those scheduled in the subject.

 

Others:

Any act of copying in any of the assessment activities will mean a zero in the subject, regardless of other disciplinary implications.

 

UNIQUE ASSESSMENT:

The laboratoy practices (15%) attendance is compulsory for everyone (see the previous section where their operation and evaluation isexplained).

Regarding the other assessment activities, students who select the single assessment will take a single exam for the entire subject (60%), and will hand in all the evidences (25%) on the same day.

If the student do not pass the 4.0 grade in the exam, will have the option to go to a retrieval exam, as long as have previously submitted the other assessment activities: the evidences and the laboratory reports.

The retrieval grade will be used to calculate the weighted final grade (provided and when the evidence exceeds 4.0 and the laboratory practice grade exceeds 5.0).