Grading

Course Assessment Elements:

• 7 Regular lab sessions with homework assignments + seven assessment lab sessions (60% of course grade) - Teamwork.
  • The 70 marks from seven homework assignments will be converted into 60% of the course grade.
• 11 quizzes in Moodle (10% of course grade), the ten best quizzes out of 11 will be used for the final grade - individual (2 attempts, 15 min each, allowed for each quiz)
• Written exam (30% of course grade) – individual
  • Exam admission requirements: You must have at least 33% of the maximum marks from the homework assignments to be admitted.

Further details about lab assignments are given in the Labs section.
Further details about quizzes are given in Moodle.

List of marks and grades:

• The overview of marks for homework assignments and the overall course marking, can be found in Moodle https://moodle.ut.ee/ -- You must login with your student account and then go to the course LTAT.05.003.
• Note: according to the rules announced in the first lecture (and outlined below), an individual penalty is applied, if a student attends less than five assessment sessions.
• Note: According to the grading rules, students with less than 33% of the maximum marks from the homework assignments (labs) have failed the course and will not be admitted to the exam.

Practical Assessment

The Practical Assessment will be obtained as follows:

• 10 points per lab session. Total = 70 points. These marks are converted into 60% of the grade in Moodle. See below for details on how the lab sessions are graded.

Please note the following rules:

• As a baseline, it is understood that all group members get the same (identical) marks for their contribution to homework assignments - which are evaluated by the lab supervisors based on the inspection of the products/reports delivered and the performance in the evaluation sessions.
• If a lab supervisor notices that a group member is not actively contributing to the group's performance (either regarding the products/reports delivered or during the evaluation sessions), the supervisor will first investigate this matter. If there is enough evidence that one or more members of a group are not actively contributing (e.g., they almost never show up during an evaluation session, or they regularly cannot explain to the supervisor what they contributed, or the contribution is clearly negligible), the supervisor can deviate from the rule of equal marking for all group members and subtract marks on an individual basis.
• All members of a group are expected to attend (at least) the assessment sessions (labs). If it happens that no member of a group shows up in a scheduled evaluation session, the group will receive 0 marks for the corresponding assignment, no matter what the group finally submits.
• In order to avoid free riders the lab supervisors will check who is present during the assessment labs. In total, we have 7 assessment labs. These labs are mandatory. A student must be present in at least 5 out of 7 labs to not get an individual penalty on the total number of marks at gained by a team during the course. The penalty on the overall amount of marks of a team is calculated as follows:
  • Student is present in only 4 assessment labs: -10% penalty
  • Student is present in only 3 assessment labs: -20% penalty
  • Student is present in only 2 assessment lab: -30% penalty
  • Student is present in only 1 assessment lab: -40% penalty
  • Student is never present during assessment labs: -50% penalty

If you get less than 33% of the maximum marks from the homework assignments, you will get a grade of 'F' in your first examination. In this case, you will be given a second chance to improve your practical assessment score. If your score after the second try is at least 20 out of 60, you will become eligible for a retake exam (korduseksam).

Conceptual Assessment

The quizzes are worth 10 points. The final exam is worth 30 points. Students who get less than 10 out of 30 in the final exam will get a grade of 'F', regardless of their Practical Assessment score. This same rule will apply to the resit (korduseksam).

Final Score and Grade

The Practical Assignments, quizzes, and Exam scores will be added. This cumulated score will be translated into a grade between A and F according to the standard university scale:

• A: >=90 .. 100
• B: >=80 .. <90
• C: >=70 .. <80
• D: >=60 .. <70
• E: >=50 .. <60
• F: 0 .. <50