Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Final Exam	50%	2	0.08	CM07, CM17, KM04, KM05, KM16, KM17
Midterm exam	30%	1	0.04	CM07, CM17, KM04, KM05, KM16, KM17
Submission of problem sets and essays and/or laboratory quizzes	20%	0.5	0.02	CM07, CM09, CM17, CM19, KM04, KM05, KM16, KM17

This subject does not offer the option for comprehensive evaluation

The evaluation of the students will be carried out according to the following activities:

1. A midterm exam

Written evidence in which the student will not be allowed to consult any kind of teaching material. The maximum resolution time will be 60 minutes. This test does not release matter.

2. A final exam

Written evidence in which the student will not be allowed to consult any kind of teaching material. The maximum resolution time will be 2 hours, and will include all the subject matter of the course.
The exam is designed so that the student performs a last learning effort that is considered necessary to consolidate the previously acquired knowledge, thus guaranteeing the success in the continuous learning process of the greatest possible number of students.

3. Submission of problem sets and essays, and/or lab quizzes

Students will submit, at the request of the teaching staff and following their instructions, various exercises and/or essays to be solved individually and/or in groups of between 2 and 4 students. Some of these exercises may consist of one or more quizzes in the lab in order to evaluate the learning of the computer activites carried out.

Evaluation criteria

The grade of the midterm exam will wieght a 30% of the average grade of the subject.

The grade of the final exam will weight a 50% of the average grade of the subject.

The grade of the submission of exercises, essays and/or quizzes in the lab will weight a 20% of the average grade of the subject.

Therefore, the average grade of the subject is computed as:

average grade of the subject = 30% (grade of the midterm exam) +
                                               + 50% (grade of the final exam) +
                                               + 20% (grade exercises/essays/lab quizzes)

The subject will be considered "passed" if the following two requirements are met:

1. the average grade of the subject is equal to or greater than 5 and
2. the grade of the final exam is equal to or greater than 3. 

• A student that meets the first requirement above but does not meet the second will recevie an  average grade of the subject equal to 4.5, and will qualify for the re-evaluation test according to what is established in the section "Retake Process" below.
• A student that meets the second requirement above but does not meet the first, or any of them, will qualify for the re-evaluation test according to what is established in the section "Retake Process" below.

A student who has not participated in any of the assessment activities will be considered "Not evaluable"

Calendar of evaluation activities

The dates of the evaluation activities (midterm exams, exercises in the classroom, assignments, ...) will be announced well in advance during the semester.

The date of the final exam is scheduled in the assessment calendar of the Faculty.

"The dates of evaluation activities cannot be modified, unless there is an exceptional and duly justified reason why an evaluation activity cannot be carried out. In this case, the degree coordinator will contact both the teaching staff and the affected student, and a new date will be scheduled within the same academic period to make up for the missed evaluation activity." Section 1 of Article 264. Calendar of evaluation activities (Academic Regulations UAB). 

Students of the Faculty of Economics and Business, who in accordance with the previous paragraph need to change an evaluation activity date must process the request by filling out an Application for exams' reschedule: e-Formulari per a la reprogramació de proves.

Grade revision process

After all grading activities have ended, students will be informed of the date and way in which the course grades will be published. Students will be also be informed of the procedure, place, date and time of grade revision following University regulations.

Retake Process

"To be eligible to participate in the retake process, it is required for students to have been previously been evaluated for at least two thirds of the total evaluation activities of the subject." Section 2 of Article 261. The recovery (UAB Academic Regulations). Additionally, it is required that the student to have achieved an average grade of the subject greater than or equal to 3.5 and less than 5.

The date of the retake exam will be posted in the calendarof evaluation activities of the Faculty. Students who take this exam and pass, will get a grade of 5 for the subject. If the student does not pass the retake, the grade will remain unchanged, and hence, student will fail the course.

Very Important: Use of AI technologies

For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively for support actions, such as searching for information on the different concepts covered in the subject, explanations of error messages generated by RStudio or on the use of RStudio commands. In no case may it be used to generate or write answers to exercises and assignments, or to determine the interpretations and conclusions of the different activities carried out during the course.

In short, AI tools may be used to learn how to start and develop an activity, but they cannot replace the student at the time of carrying it out and, above all, to interpret and write the results and reach conclusions.

The student must clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. The lack of transparency of The use of AI in any assessable activity will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases

Irregularities in evaluation activities

In spite of other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, "in the case that the student makes any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation in the grade of an evaluation activity,it will be graded with a 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that can be instructed. In case of various irregularities occur in the evaluation of the same subject, the final grade of this subject will be 0". Section 11 of Article 266. Results of the evaluation. (UAB Academic Regulations).