The
previously proposed evaluation method will apply to students who follow the
recommended continuous evaluation (C.E.) procedure. In order to not handicap
his potential teammates, the student will have a brief period to decide whether
or not follows the C.E. procedure (as an orientation, the first two weeks of
the semester). Selecting C.E implies that the student will be graded in the first call. Students
attending only the final exam may obtain the maximum grade in the subject.
However, these students will have to answer some additional questions related
to the proposed team works to demonstrate that they have acquired the same
skills that students following C.E.

In
exceptional cases, such as long-term justified reasons that unable to follow
the C.E. procedure or  to take essential
assessment tests within the foreseen period, the teacher will decide whether or
not it is appropriate to allow the student to change from C.E. to final-exam
assessment or to consider him/her 'no show'.

The second
call will consist of a final exam, but students who followed C.E. may choose to
keep the grade obtained in the team works, as described below, instead of answering the additional
questions related to these works. In extraordinary calls the evaluation procedure
will be equal to the case of opting out C.E.

Students will pass the course if they get
a final mark equal to or greater than 5 (on a ten-points scale) and a score
equal to or greater than 4 (on the same scale) in both the tutored work and the
final exam. The individual mark of the tutored work will be obtained as
the sum of the mark of two individual tests (30% of the grade of the tutored
work) and the mark obtained jointly by the group (70%), although the latter
will be weighted according to the results of the cross-evaluations and the
teacher's opinion about the student's personal contribution to the group
work. Normally the weighting factor will be 1, although factors less than
1 will be applied to students that hinder the normal progress of the group or
show poor participation or understanding in the tasks of the supervised work.
Likewise, the teacher will be able to reward those students who stand out
significantly for their contribution to the teamwork with a weighting factor of
up to 1.2, especially in case of unexpected difficulties. In case of
justified absence to any of the individual tests corresponding to the tutored
work, the student may recover it by answering some additional questions in the
first final exam (or the second one in case of justified absence to the first
final exam).

The score obtained jointly by the group (70% of the tutored work mark) will be obtained
from the evaluation of the reports corresponding to the tasks assigned and from
a  joint final presentation. Non-attendance
to this presentation, except for a justified reason, will result in a zero as weighting factor. In case of justified absence, the student must contact his/her
teacher as soon as possible to ask for an interview in which he/she will have to
demonstrate his/her knowledge of the work carried out by the group.

Just in
case a student has no grade on the tutored work, or chooses to leave it out at
the second call, the score obtained in the group of questions related
to the tutored work will be considered the grade on the tutored work and the
score on the remaining questions will be the final-exam grade. The final grade
will be calculated as the weighted average of the grades of the tutored work
(weight 0.5) and the final exam (weight 0.5). These weights could be modified as described in the contingency plan. If a mark of 4 is not reached in
both parts (tutored work and final exam) separately, the final grade will be 4 at
most.

Students attending the second-call exam, with independence of the assesment track followed, will be able to choose, before starting the exam, to maintain the grade obtained in the first call in any of the two aforementioned parts if equal or higher than 4. Nevertheless they must be aware of the weight of the two parts in the final grade.

The
solution to any possible inconsistency, discrepancy or difference of
interpretation that may arise from this guide, as well as any error or any other not
considered case, will be  discussed
between the teacher and the directly concerned students and, in case of no agreement,
the matter will be referred to the competent higher bodies.