2014-10-25 06:00:00 overview of tasks: second evaluation series by Peter Dawyndt

Below you find the list of tasks assigned to each week of the semester. This includes a list of basic exercises that must be submitted each week by Friday evening 22:00, a list of evaluation exercises that must be submitted by the first evaluation deadline (Thurday 18 December 2014, 22:00), and a list of chapters in the Python book that should be read in preparation of the lectures and the hands-on sessions. Please note that the ISBN-problems are included in the basic exercises, and must be submitted as well before the set deadlines.

week 07: lists and tuples

week 08: advanced functions and modules

week 09: sets and dictionaries

week 10: text files

week 11: object oriented programming

week 12: evaluation second series of exercises: Friday 19 December 2014

  • before evaluation deadline (Thursday 18 December 2014, 22:00)
    1. submit correct solutions for all evaluation exercises
    2. subscribe to evaluation sessions in Minerva groups

2014-09-22 06:00:01 overview of tasks: first evaluation series by Peter Dawyndt

Below you find the list of tasks assigned to each week of the semester. This includes a list of basic exercises that must be submitted each week by Friday evening 22:00, a list of evaluation exercises that must be submitted by the first evaluation deadline (Thurday 30 October 2014, 22:00), and a list of chapters in the Python book that should be read in preparation of the lectures and the hands-on sessions. Please note that the ISBN-problems are included in the basic exercises, and must be submitted as well before the set deadlines.

Before you can start submitting solutions to Pythia, you must first register to this online learning system. The info section outlines the registration procedure that needs to be followed, and it is also explained in this video tutorial (Dutch only).

week 01: variables, expressions and statements

week 02: conditional statements

week 03: control loops

week 04: strings

week 05: functions

week 06: evaluation first series of exercises: Friday 31 October 2014

  • before evaluation deadline (Thursday 30 October 2014, 22:00)
    1. submit correct solutions for all evaluation exercises
    2. subscribe to evaluation sessions in Minerva groups

2014-09-22 06:00:00 continuous assessment mark by Peter Dawyndt

The continuous assessment of the computational biosciences course is based on ten series of mandatory exercises, for which solutions must be submitted before set deadlines. There are two types of exercises. Basic exercises aim at bringing into immediate practice those programming skills that have been newly acquired while reading the course book and while attending the lectures. These exercises must be submitted on a weekly basis. Sample solutions for the basic exercises are posted online after each weekly deadline, which can help students to catch up if necessary. Evaluation exercises are more elaborate (exam level) and must be submitted before the deadline of the final evaluation. During the evaluation, one evaluation exercise will be randomly selected for oral examination. The oral examination starts from the submitted solution, and the examinor will pose additional questions to evaluate competences of the student with respect to programming skills and problem solving skills.

The continuous assessment accounts for 20% (4/20) of the total score for the computational biosciences course, and is computed in the following way. For each evaluation, a score is assigned based on the oral examination of the evaluation exercises. This score is multiplied by a weight factor between 0 and 1. The weight is the fraction of the number of mandatory basic exercises submitted correctly before the weekly deadlines plus the number of mandatory basic exercises submitted correctly before the evaluation deadline divided by the total number of mandatory basic and evaluation exercises.

The correctness of submitted solutions is evaluated automatically immediately after submission to the online learning environment Pythia. Based on the feedback provided by Pythia, students can make adjustments to their solutions and resubmit them. The number of attempts needed to get to the correct solution does not influence the weighing factor as given above. It is only checked whether or not a correct solutions was submitted before the deadline. Students can still make modifications to their submitted solutions after the deadline and resubmit their solutions, without this having an influence on the computation of the weighing factor.

A student who earned a score of 8/10 for his oral evaluation, who submitted correct solutions for all 25 basic exercises before the weekly deadlines, and who submitted correct solutions for all 10 evaluation exercises before the evaluation deadline, remains his score of 8/10 (8 * (25 + 10) / (25 + 10) = 8) for the evaluation. Suppose, however, that the same student still scored 8/10 for his oral evaluation, but only submitted 18/25 of the basic exercises correctly before the weekly deadlines and only submitted 7/10 of the evaluation exercises correctly by the set deadlines. In that case, the final evaluation score of the student is decreased to 5.7/10 (8 * (16 + 7) / (25 + 10) = 5.7).

Continuous assessment cannot be retaken during the second examination period. The final mark for the second examination period is computed twice. The first computation takes into account the score for the continuous assessment (so, the contiuous assessment scored on a maximum of 4 together with the score for the final exam on a maximum of 16, as computed during the first examination period). The second computation only takes into account the score of the second examination period (for a maximum of 20). The final score for the second examination period is then computed as the maximum of both computations.
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