Explanation

Evaluation caracteristics

The evaluation has two parts

• A practical part: using R, their own laptop and a dataset that will be made available before the exam. In this part, the answers to the questions are in the data. To find the correct answer, students will need to use R. This part of the exam tests if students can use R in a setting which allows them to use all course material that is available.
• A written part: this part is closed book (no course material, laptop, software, … allowed). Students will be given a command, a series of commands, a program written in R, … and will be offered a number of potential outcomes. One of these outcomes will be the one that the command, series or commands, program … would return. This part tests if students can read R code and predict its outcome without the help of course material.
• Both parts use multiple choice questions and include 20 questions. There is a correction for incorrect answers. Students start at -5 and each part is quoted /15. The result for each part is caluclated as the number of correct answers – 5.

Determination final result

If the result for each of the two parts equals at least 6/15 (equivalent to 8/20), the final grade is the average of the results for both parts, rescaled to 20. If the result for one of the two parts is less than 6/15, the final grade equals the minimum of the results on the two parts.

Information about retaking exams

The features of the evaluation and determination of grades are identical to those of the first examination opportunity, as described in the tab 'Explanation'. Note that students need to retake both parts of the exam, even if they passed one part but failed the other.