Educational guide 2023_24 Facultade de Bioloxía

Zoology 2: Arthropod invertebrates and chordates

Assessment

	Description	Qualification	Training and Learning Results
Laboratory practical	Attendance is compulsory and the students’ active participation will also be positively considered. These sessions will be evaluated based on a written examination of the practical contents at the end of each practical session.	20	A3 A4	B1	C2 C7
Case studies	There will be three problem-solving assignments altogether, which will consist of the resolution of theoretical and/or practical aspects related to each of the thematic units. Each one of them allows the teacher to evaluate the student’s efforts during the course. They will be available on the online learning platform for at least a week (exact dates will be agreed upon by the students and the teacher). Each of these activities will be evaluated on a scale from 1 to 10 and at the end of the course finally averaged to obtain the final score	10	A3 A4	B1 B6	C1	D3 D5
Seminars	Attendance and active participation in the debates during these sessions are mandatory. The seminars will be evaluated by the resolution of a case study. The content and the quality of the report will also be considered.	10	A3 A4	B1 B6	C1 C9	D3 D4 D5
Objective questions exam	The first assessment will be take place during the teaching period (30%). The student will have to answer several questions related to the phylum Arthropoda. It will cover the material provided during the lectures and aims at evaluating the extent of knowledge acquisition. The format of this exam will be short-answer questions, filling gaps with a few words or drawing a diagram to explain a particular structure or physiological function of a particular animal.	30	A3 A4	B1 B6	C1 C2 C6 C7 C9	D3 D4 D5
Objective questions exam	The second assessment (30%) will take place on the official date established by the Faculty. The student will have to answer several questions related to the phylum Chordata. It will cover the material provided during the lectures and aims at evaluating the extent of knowledge acquisition. The format of this exam will be short-answer questions, filling gaps with a few words or drawing a diagram to explain a particular structure or physiological function of a particular animal.	30	A3 A4	B1 B6	C1 C2 C6 C7 C9	D3 D4 D5

Other comments on the Evaluation
The dates for the written exams of the theoretical aspects of the course will coincide with the official dates stated in the assessment schedule of the Faculty (May and July attempts), which can be found on the faculty website: http://bioloxia.uvigo.es/en/teaching/exams The written exams of the practical aspects of the subject will be done at the end of each of the practical classes. The scores obtained during the continuous evaluation (seminars, laboratory exercises, on-line activities) will be maintained for the second and extra attempts scheduled for the current academic year. The final grade will be obtained as the sum of the different evaluation components (after calculating the percentages assigned), as long as each part of the total evaluation (theory, lab sessions, seminars and assignments) had been passed with a minimum value of 5.0. In the case of students not achieving the mark of 5 in either of these components, the score obtained in the failed component will become the numeric final grade. In addition, the teacher may propose extra (voluntary) activities for those students willing to increase the average grade obtained. They will be announced throughout the semester and therefore, it is the student's obligation to stay informed throughout this period. Students will also have the choice to take a final exam of 100% of the subject contents (instead of the continous evaluation procedure) as long as they have attended all the laboratory sessions. There will be a period to select this modality, which will be established by the faculty. A student will receive a grade of "not presented" (NP) when he/she has not attended the final written exam that will be held in the two official calls (first and second call) and if he/she does not perform any of the other activities included in the continuous evaluation procedure (i.e., seminars, laboratory exercises, on-line assignments). If a student fails some elements of the course, he/she may still be able to progress to the next year by repeating all those elements of the continuous evaluation procedure that were not passed first time. However, students need to consult with the professors if only failed elements will be re-taken/deferred and upon which conditions. Cheating and plagiarism in any of the different activities of the evaluation could result in failing the activity and/or the entire course.