No assessment test is required. The final grade is obtained from the participation in the virtual classroom (weighted with 25%) and the writing assessment (weighted with 75%)
As for the participation in forums, the timeliness and quality of interventions –and not just the total number of posts– will be taken into consideration and valued. In spite of its weight in the final grade, this is an obligatory task and the course cannot be passed without satisfying adequately this requirement.
As for the writing assessment, it is recalled that it is a first research work. This means that an excessively loose approach to the issue is not valid, and that hypotheses have to be well-founded on data and sources with scientific significance. It is most important to strictly select bibliography; very particularly, the information found on webpages not coming from a reliable source shall be discarded. Selected references should provide an overview of the topic as well as guidance on how to adress the problem which is proposed for study. Copying and pasting is not, obviously, admissible: plagiarism –furthermore easily discernible– would be severely penalised.
