Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Final exam	40	2	0.08	1, 4, 8
Homework, in-class assignments and progression	10	11	0.44	9, 1, 2, 7, 6
Midterm exam	35	2	0.08	9, 1, 8
Writing activity	15	10	0.4	9, 2, 5, 6, 3

The final grade will be calculated as follows:

• Final exam: 40%
• Midterm: 35%
• Writing assignment: 15%
• Homework, in-class activities, and progression: 10%

 

ALL ASSESSMENT DATES WILL BE CONFIRMED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER.

 

Please note:

1. Students must have participated in a minimum of 70% of homework and in-class activities.
2. The final exam is not a second midterm, that is, it will include all the content covered in the course.
3. The minimum grade on assignments and exams to form average is 4.
4. Students will obtain a “Not assessed/Not submitted” course grade unless they have submitted more than 30% of the assessment items.
5. The level of English will be taken into account in the correction of written work and in the final evaluation. It will represent 15% of the grade.
6. 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 this case, the activity will not have the possibility of reassessment. 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.
7. This subject entirely prohibits the use of AI technologies in all of its activities. Any submitted work that contains content generated using AI will be considered academic dishonesty; the corresponding grade awarded will be a zero, without the possibility of reassessment. In cases of greater infringement, more serious action may be taken.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS (ERASMUS, etc.) ON EXAMS AND OTHER ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES

Exchange students (Erasmus and other) who request to bring forward an exam or any other type of assessment activity must present the teacher with an official document from their home university justifying their request.

 

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.

 

Reassessment

Reassessment for this subject requires a content-synthesis test (covering reassessable activities, i.e., the midterm and final exams), for which the following conditions are applicable.

The student must previously have obtained an average overall grade equal to or higher than 3.5.

• The student must have been assessed before in a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to at least 2/3 of the total grade.
• The maximum that can be obtained through reassessment is 5..

VERY IMPORTANT: it is possible to have passed both exams and still fail the course since there are some activities that are excluded from reassessment.

 

Evaluation Activities Excluded from Reassessment

The following activities are not eligible for reassessment: the writing activity, and homework and in-class activities. Activities in which there has been some irregularity will also be excluded from reassessment.

 

Single assessment option

Students who opt for this evaluation system will do a final exam on the same day as the rest of the group (70%) and will have to hand in that day a recording of an oral presentation on anarticle agreed upon with the teacher (30%). To participate in the reassessment process, the student must have sat the exam and handed in the recording and obtain a grade of 3.5 or higher in the final exam.

Reassessment requires a content-synthesis test (covering reassessable activities, i.e., the midterm and final exams). The oral presentation is excluded from reassessment.