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Each training activity carried out by the doctoral student is registered in the EDUC (Doctoral School) archives. The resulting dossier makes up the so-called DAD (Document of Activities of the student).
The DAD is in fact a digital folder that records the official certificates of courses, seminars, congresses, stays of training in other universities or companies, etc. The Doctoral School must have loaded into the DAD the original certificate of each student’s activity, as well as each report made by the supervisors about the activities of the doctoral candidates. In particular, the DAD must contain the plan of work of the stays in other centers of research, the reports of the supervisor responsible in the holding center and the final report with the results of the stay.
The activity and performance of the PhD student is initially reviewed by the tutor and the supervisor, and it is essentially based on the evaluation of his/her DAD and of their meetings, that are presumed to be very frequent. In addition, the DAD is the most important evidence used by the Academic Committee to decide upon the continuity of the student in the program. This important decision happens annually.
The activity included in the DAD can be certified officially by the Doctoral School upon request of the PhD student.
This section is subject to the Spanish Regulation of doctoral studies. In the following, a detailed description of the most relevant steps of the assessment of the PhD student’s activity is presented.
Assessment and endorsement of competences:
1. At the end of the first year of doctorate, the student will propose a “Plan of Research” (PR). This plan will be continuously improved and detailed along the following years of doctorate. Moreover, the PR must be always known and endorsed by the tutor and the supervisor of the Doctoral Thesis.
2. Yearly, the Academic Committee of the doctoral program will assess both documents the PR and the DAD, as well as the reports of assessment that tutor and supervisor have previously made to this respect.
3. A favorable assessment from the Academic Committee of the doctoral program is compulsory to continue the doctorate studies.
4. The Academic Committee can give a non-favorable assessment to the academic performance of the student. Such an evaluation must always be motivated. Should it happen, the PhD student would have to be assessed again after a period of six months, on the base of an improved PR. Given another unfavorable evaluation, the student would have to leave the program.
5. The annual assessment has to check the way the student is accomplishing the PR and also that the Thesis can be ready to be presented before its deadline.
Review and appeal on the assessment:
Given a negative resolution of the Academic Committee, a PhD student can submit a reasoned appeal to the director of the EDUC, who will solve according to what is provided for in the regulations (and helped by all the technical reports that the director can consider necessary).
Full / Part-time enrollement status
The assessment has the same rules and conditions for all the PhD students both full-time and part-time.
A PhD student can submit a reasoned request for a change of the enrollement status (from full-time to part-time or viceversa). This request can be granted by the Academic Committee of the program of doctorate, if the circumstances and given reasons are accepted. This will only have effects on the dwell time in the doctoral program but not on the PR nor in any other academic condition. In any case, a regime of part-time dedication needs always the endorsement of the supervisor.
Instrumentos de evaluación: verificación de competencias A efectos de homogeneizar los planes anuales de investigación de cada doctorando y, a la par, de justificar la verificación que tutores, directores y Comisión Académica deben realizar en cuanto a las competencias alcanzadas y justificadas por cada alumno del programa, se dispone que dicho Plan Anual de Investigación se ajuste a la organización en capítulos y apartados que se indica a continuación.
These sessions are compulsory for all the students enrolled in the program.
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