The academic regulations governing university master’s degrees (resolution of the Board of Governors dated 6 February 2013) determine the system for the assessment of knowledge acquired during master’s degrees at UPF. Academic regulations governing master’s degrees stipulate that there are two assessment or exam sittings per subject and one single sitting for each academic year. Academic transcripts for the academic year are definitively closed in September.

Students who fail to pass a subject or training activity may enrol for it again in the following academic year provided they meet the requirements set out in the continuance rules, in other words, as long as they have passed at least 50% of the credits linked to the subjects for which they enrolled in the first academic year of the master’s degree. Total student study time is established at 25 hours (including face-to-face classes) per credit, in other words, a subject worth 5 ECTS credits shall require a minimum student study time of 125 hours.

Assessment principles on the master’s degree in Asia-Pacific Studies in a global context:

1. With regard to the university master’s degree in Asia-Pacific Studies, for all pertinent purposes assessment of subjects is conducted by means of continuous assessment, based on a minimum of three sources of assessment, tests or exercises carried out during the term and one final assessment involving a final project or an exam, or even both. Sources of assessment shall refer to seminar practice sessions, reviews, reading reports, oral reports, project proposals or outlines, team projects, etc. The sources shall be objectifiable and will need to be documented. In addition, other criteria may be added, such as contributions to class discussions.

2. The course plans (PDA) of all subjects on the master’s degree in Asia-Pacific Studies clearly set out the assessment criteria and procedures in detail. Using his own criterion and the characteristics of the subject, the lecturer will establish which continuous or final assessment instruments to apply. Teaching staff shall particularly strive to ensure that the weight or percentage of marks for partial exercises contributing to the final grade is in keeping with the volume of work they entail.

3. The assessment of the subjects on the master’s degree in Asia-Pacific Studies may combine an educational dimension through continuous assessment (active involvement in class, projects handed in throughout the year, reviews, presentations, seminars, etc.) and a final assessment by means of a final project or an exam, or even both.

4. The university master’s degree in Asia-Pacific Studies concludes with the preparation and public defence of a master’s degree final project. The assessment of this project shall be incumbent upon a specific board appointed by the committee in charge from the department that runs the master’s degree.

5. The work methodology of the master’s degree in Asia-Pacific Studies involves compulsory active involvement in discussions, debates, analyses and presentations. These are continuous assessment activities for which the student’s attendance in class shall be necessary.

6. The marks achieved in all partial assessment instruments, as well as the final mark, shall be expressed using numerical grades from 0 to 10 according to current regulations.

7. In accordance with current regulations, teaching staff will need to preserve all documents linked to the assessment for at least one year given that they may be requested as part of official review processes within the university or, subsequently, within the contentious-administrative jurisdiction. This obligation extends to all written, sound-based, audiovisual or electronic documents that are part of the continuous and final assessment.

8. Copying and plagiarism on the part of the student for any item that is part of the assessment procedure constitutes an administrative offence entailing penalties in proportion to the severity of the breach. Conduct that is considered along these lines includes copying (using fraudulent means in order to find out the correct answers while taking an exam or other test) and plagiarism (passing off ideas or words in a student’s text as one’s own without duly citing the author).

9. Copying and plagiarism in any of the assessment instruments shall result in the student failing the overall subject. In the event of copying and plagiarism, teaching staff are required to report the name of the student, the subject, the exercise and the procedure in which they arise to the master’s degree coordinator. With regard to plagiarism, it will be necessary to distinguish between wilful misconduct and mere ignorance or neglect with quotation and referencing systems.

10. If during the course a student commits a second instance of copying or plagiarism, a petition will be lodged to the rector in order to bring administrative proceedings on account of lack of integrity and, upon suitable investigation thereof, it may be resolved with penalties ranging from forfeiture of the right to assessment for one or more subjects for an academic period to being expelled from the university with the loss of all economic rights and forfeiture of the entitlement to class attendance, assessment and cancellation of exam sittings for as many terms or academic years as determined in the penalty imposed.

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