8. Evaluation criteria and Grading System
Evaluation System |
Continuous assessment |
Non-continuous evaluation * |
Description |
Mid-term tests |
30.00% |
0.00% |
Around the middle of the semester there will be a mid-term test to evaluate and encourage the continuous study. The test will cover the part of the syllabus seen in theoretical classes until that moment and will be liberatory with respect to the final test. To pass this test the student must obtain a minimum score of 4 out of 10. |
Assessment of activities done in the computer labs |
25.00% |
0.00% |
The reports of the practices will be valued for accuracy, clarity, ability to connect contents, management of basic concepts, scientific reasoning capacity, and ability to solve a problem correctly and completely. The student must have a minimum of 4 out of 10 in the practices to pass the course. |
Theoretical papers assessment |
15.00% |
15.00% |
The works will be developed in groups of 2 or 3 students. The criteria for evaluating these works will be as follows: 1) adequacy of the content to the subject treated. 2) Absence of plagiarism (Write with your own words) 3) Quality of the aforementioned sources (sources in English will be especially valued) 4) Clarity and correctness of the ideas and concepts presented. 5) Spelling and grammar correction of writing. 6) Consideration of the minimum and maximum extension proposed. 7) Early presentation of the works. Do not submit all work in the last days of the term. A simple literal transcription of all or part of a text will be valued with a low score. The texts extracted literally from the sources must support a personal argument. |
Final test |
30.00% |
85.00% |
Eminently theoretical final exam. To overcome this, students must obtain a minimum score of 4 out of 10. Students who pass the mid-term test will only be tested on the second part of the subject. The mark of the first part will be the one obtained in the mid-term test. Students who have not passed the mid-term test should be examined in this final test of the two parts of the subject. For them the weight of this test will be 60%. To overcome this, students must also obtain a minimum mark of 4 out of 10. |
Total: |
100.00% |
100.00% |
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According to art. 4 of the UCLM Student Evaluation Regulations, it must be provided to students who cannot regularly attend face-to-face training activities the passing of the subject, having the right (art. 12.2) to be globally graded, in 2 annual calls per subject , an ordinary and an extraordinary one (evaluating 100% of the competences).
Evaluation criteria for the final exam:
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Continuous assessment:
It will be valued that the student demonstrates that he/she has assimilated the basic knowledge of the subject and that can relate them to each other. A good performance in the practices, the work and the mid-term test will be valued. Students of exchange programs will be evaluated by an alternative procedure determined by the teacher according to the circumstances of each case. In any case, the subject will only be considered passed if the set of all assessable activities results in a grade of 5 or higher (out of 10).
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Non-continuous evaluation:
The evaluation will be done through a theoretical exam (85%) and a bibliographic work (15%). In any case, the subject will only be considered passed if the set of all assessable activities results in a grade of 5 or higher (out of 10).
The modality assigned by default to the student will be the continuous evaluation. Any student may request the change to the non-continuous evaluation modality (before the end of the class period) by sending an email to the teacher, provided that they have not completed 50% of the evaluable activities.
Specifications for the resit/retake exam:
The evaluation of the practices, the mid-term test and the works will be those obtained in the ordinary call. The works and the reports of the practices can be done again if they have not been passed in the ordinary call. Students of exchange programs will be evaluated by an alternative procedure determined by the teacher according to the circumstances of each case.
The non-continuous evaluation will be done through a theoretical exam (85%) and a bibliographic work (15%).The modality assigned by default to the student will be the continuous evaluation. Any student may request the change to the non-continuous evaluation modality (before the end of the class period) by sending an email to the teacher, provided that they have not completed 50% of the evaluable activities.
Specifications for the second resit / retake exam:
The mark of this call will coincide with the one obtained in the corresponding final test. The subject will only be considered passed if the result of this test is a grade of 5 or higher (out of 10).