Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Group assessment activities	30%	0	0	14, 7, 12, 11, 10, 9, 13, 15, 2, 3, 6, 4, 5
Individual assessment activities	20%	0	0	14, 7, 8, 10, 13, 15, 2, 6, 4, 5
Written exam about content knowledge	50%	0	0	1, 7, 11, 8, 13, 15, 2, 3, 4, 5

CONTINOUS ASSESSMENT

Throughout the course, several activities will be required, even if they do not have an associated grade. This course includes activities for the development of Digital Teaching Competence.

The assessment of the Science Education course consists of 3 types of assessment activities:

• Individual exam (50% of the final grade): a final assessment test requiring the development of various questions related to both conceptual and didactic aspects covered throughout the course. This activity is retrievable.

• Individual assessment activities (20% of the final grade):

• 10% Scientific activity related to Transnatura. This must be submitted in situ during the trip on paper. This activity is not retrievable.
• 10% Reflection on the design and elaboration of a physical model as a didactic tool. The submission of a group explanation video is required to participate in the assessment. This activity is not retrievable.

• Group assessment activity (30% of the final grade). Group activity where you will put into practice what has been learned, both conceptually and didactically, in relation to the design and implementation of a dialogical scientific activity. A partial submission will be assessed and will have a weight in the final grade. As this activity is not retrievable, it is recommended to have a tutorial with the teacher prior to the final submission.

Finally, throughout the course, some activities will be mandatory, even if they do not have a specific associated grade.

 

Both individual and group assessment activities must be submitted via the virtual campus.

An unsubmitted assessment activity will be graded with a 0.

To calculate the average, it is necessary to have a minimum grade of 5 on the exam.

To participate in the recovery process, students must have been previously assessed in a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to at least 2/3 of the course grade. The maximum grade for the recovery exam will be 5.

If a student passes the exam but fails the individual assessment activities, if the course average is passing, the course is passed. Otherwise, the course will be failed.
As a guideline, and depending on the number of credits for the course, you should dedicate 68 hours of autonomous work to the course.  

As a guideline, and according to the number of credits of the course, you should invest 68h of personal work in the course, according to the following proposal:

 

Final exam		10h
Individual assessment activities	Transnatura	6h
	Reflective essay physical model	6h
Group assessment activity	Scientific dialogical activity	14h

 

DATES FOR EVALUATIVE ACTIVITIES

 

GROUPS 31 and 71 

Final Exam	15/12/25
Individual assessment activities*	Transnatura Task: 13/10/25 (G71) and 16/10/25 (G31) Individual Reflection of the use of physical models: 03/11/25 (G31-SA), 10/11/25 (G31-SB), 10/11/25 (G71-SA), 17/11/25 (G41-SB)
Group assessment activity*	Dialogical Activity: 24/11/25
Recovery Exam	26/01/26 from 18-21h (G31 and G71)

 

*These dates may vary if unforeseen circumstances require a modification of the schedule.

All assessment activities carried out throughout the course must be submitted within the deadline established in the course program.

 

SINGLE ASSESSMENT

The assessment of the science education subject consists of 3 types of evaluation activities:

• Individual exam (50% ofthe final grade): a final assessment test requiring the development of various questions related to both conceptual and didactic aspects covered throughout the course. A minimum grade of 5 is required to calculate the course average. This activity is recoverably.

• Didactic reflection test on the design, implementation, and analysis of activities (25% of the final grade): Analysis of the design and implementation of a classroom activity and its analysis, considering communicative approaches, difficulties expressed by students, and the evolution of their ideas about the matter model or chemical change. This activity is not recoverably.

• Didactic reflection evaluation on theuse of models (25% of the final grade). Analysis of the design of a model to answer a question about the living being model. Didactic reflection on the contribution and limitations of models as a didactic resource. This activity is not recoverably.

The three assessment activities will take place on the same day, 15/12/25 (groups 31 and 71) and 18/12/25 (groups 21 and 41).

In case of failing the exam a recovery exam must be taken. The recovery exam will  be held:

• G31 and G71: Monday 26/01/26 from 18-21h.
• G21 and G41: Thursday 29/01/26 from 18h-21h.

If the recovery exam is passed, the maximum grade for the individual exam will be a 5.

 

GENERAL ASPECTS OF THE EVALUATION

The feedback and grading of assessment activities and the exam will be provided no later than 20 working days after their submission.

Attendance at field trips is mandatory. Thereis no minimum mandatory attendance for seminars. For this reason, this course does not offer the possibility of opting for the synthesis assessment test.

In case of not passingthe final individual test, the final grade will be 4.5 (if the course average is equal to or higher than this grade) or the average grade obtained (if it is lower than 4.5).

To participate in the recovery process, students must have been previously assessed in a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to at least 2/3 of the course grade. If this is not achieved, the course will be graded as Not Assessable.

To pass this course, students must demonstrate good general communication competence, both orally and in writing, and a good command of the vehicular language(s) listed in the teaching guide. In all activities (individual and group), linguistic correctness, writing, and formal presentation aspects will be taken into account. Students must be able to express themselves fluently and correctly and must show a high degree of comprehension of academic texts. 

An activity may be returned (not assessed) or failed if the teaching staff considers that it does not meet these requirements.

Please note that, in the case of the Catalan language, in the 1st and 2nd years, students are required to have a linguistic competence equivalent to Level 1 for Early Childhood and Primary Education Teachers; and from the 3rd year of the Degree, students must have demonstrated a competence equivalent to Level 2 for Early Childhood and Primary Education Teachers (more information on these levels at: 

https://www.uab.cat/web/estudiar/graus/graus/competencia-linguistica-1345737529755.html

In accordance with UAB regulations, plagiarism or copying of any work will be penalized with a 0 as the grade for that work, losing the possibility of recovery, whether it is an individual or group work (in this case, all group members will receive a 0). If during the completion of an individual work and/or in-class test, the teaching staff considers that a person is attempting to copy or is discovered with any type of document or device not authorized by the teaching staff, the work will begraded with a 0, with no option for recovery. A work,activity, or exam will be considered "copied" when it reproduces all or a significant part of another student's work. A work or activity will be considered "plagiarized" when a part of an author's text is presented as one's own without citing the sources, regardless of whether the original sources are in paper or digital format.

Students must refrain from using any type of technologies, tools, and artificial intelligence systems or others that may lead to academic fraud in the academic activities they develop. Specific validations may be carried out to guarantee authorship and the acquisition of competencies in case of suspicion of academic fraud. If the academic fraud is confirmed, the work will begraded with a 0, with no option for recovery, whether it is an individual or group work (in this case, all group members will receive a 0). 

For other more general aspects, the General Evaluation Criteria and Guidelines of the Faculty of Education Sciences are followed.