UEL’s Assessment and Feedback Policy

David RowleyAssociate Dean, School of Health, Sport and Bioscience

Academic Practice and Student Experience

Context

Context

Assessment + Engagement Policy1. Introduction 2. Assessment Design 3. Assessment, Moderation and Marking 4. Management of Assessment 5. Feedback 6. Disability 7. Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Body

Exemptions

1. IntroductionThe Policy applies to ALL UEL programmes within the

UEL Academic Framework

Principles of assessment: • based on learning outcomes • integral to programme design • fair and free from bias • valid, transparent and reliable • timely and incremental • demanding yet manageable + efficient • consistent

2. Assessment Design -effective design ensures:

Assessment Design -effective design ensures:

Assessment criteria

• Assessment criteria are helpful to students in that they enable the students to better understand what is expected of them

• Assessment criteria are helpful to staff/ external examiners in that they are also clear on what is expected and they help to ensure consistency in marking

• Try to avoid subjective terms such as ‘good’ or ‘poor’ when writing your criteria

• Carefully constructed criteria can also encourage staff to use the full range of marks available.

3. Assessment, Moderation & Marking

Assessment, Moderation + Marking

Assessment, Moderation + Marking – key issues

Assessment, Moderation + Marking

Assessment, Moderation + Marking

Assessment, Moderation + MarkingResolving differences between markers

Significant differences identified?

The first mark stands

Second Marker will mark ALL remaining work marked by the

first marker

No Yes

Is agreement on marks reached through discussion

and negotiation?

Marks Agreed

Yes

A third internal marker is required

No

Changing marks

• If, as a result of moderation, marks for pieces of work in the sample moderated are changed, then it becomes necessary to remark the whole group.

• It is also necessary to second mark every submission for work where the assessment cannot be done anonymously e.g presentations, project work etc.

Assessment, Moderation + MarkingExternal Moderation: External Examiners are sent

4. Management of assessment

Management of assessment

Management of assessment

Management of assessment

Submission and deadlines• Deadlines should not be set outside of normal university

working hours to ensure support is available in the event of submission problems

• Students who submit after the deadline but within 24 hours can have their work marked. In such cases you should deduct 5 marks as a penalty for late submission from the achieved mark (assuming marking is /100).

• Work submitted more than 24 hours late should not be marked, however if it is within 7 days it should be retained in case the student is granted extenuation.

5. Feedback

5. Feedback

6. Disability

Disability

7. Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Body Exemptions

Exemptions require written approval of the Chair of University Learning and Teaching Committee

8. Appendices• Glossary and Supporting Information• Second Marking • Assessment Criteria • Roles and Responsibilities • Assessment Tariff and Equivalences • Guidelines: Electronic submission, marking and

feedback of coursework• Using assessment to enhance learning

SUMMATIVE TARIFF: Maximum Assessment loads per module

Assessment Mode * Level 0-M

(15 credits)

Level 0-M

(30 credits)

or

Coursework 3000 words 6000 words

or

Written Examination 135 minutes 270 minutes

(with no one component exceeding 180 minutes)

or

Practical (face-to-face) examination, viva, presentation or practical skills demonstration

45 minutes 90 minutes

or

Dissertation 4500 words 9000 words

UEL’s Assessment and Feedback Policy

http://www.uel.ac.uk/qa/AssessmentPolicy.htm

Academic Integrity at UEL

• The AI Policy ensures consistency of treatment and equality of

experience for all students at UEL

• Our responsibility to protect the credibility of the qualifications

• The AI Policy is supported by policies on standard referencing and

use of Turnitin + Academic Misconduct Regulations

• Turnitin utilised as a text matching tool not a plagiarism detector

• Identifying plagiarism is an issue of academic judgement, not a

Turnitin percentage – no percentage is acceptable

Cite Them Right

UEL’s Standard Referencing Systemis Cite Them Right (Harvard)or APA for students studying programmes in the School of Psychology.

Defining Academic Misconduct

UEL defines academic misconduct as any behaviour:

“likely to confer an unfair advantage in assessment, whether by advantaging the alleged offender or disadvantaging (deliberately or unconsciously) another or others”

(UEL Manual of General Regulations, 2010, Part 8 Academic Misconduct, 8.2.1)

Most common types of Academic Misconduct

Plagiarism:

The submission of material (written, visual or oral), originally produced by another person or persons or oneself, without due acknowledgement, so that the work could be assumed to be the student's own … includes incorporation of significant extracts or elements taken from the work of (an)other(s) or oneself, without acknowledgement or reference

Most common types of Academic Misconduct

Collusion:

The submission of work produced in collaboration for an assignment based on the assessment of individual work.

Process for dealing with cases of suspected misconduct

• New Regulations being considered by Academic Board in September 2014

Overview:• First and non-serious suspected offences dealt with at

School level• Subsequent or serious (grossly dishonest) suspected

offences dealt with centrally• Academic Misconduct Panels consider cases where

necessary

Policies and Regulations

• Academic Integrity

• Use of Turnitin

• Standard Referencing http://www.uel.ac.uk/qa/policies/policies/

Key Contacts:

School Responsible Officers:•ADI Dr Abel Ugba•ACE TBC•Cass Debbie Brearley•HSB Deidre O’Kelly•Law + Business Ian Porton/Delia Langstone +Carol Luckett•Psychology Ian Wells & Susy Ajith•Social Sciences TBC

Key Contacts:

Academic Misconduct Officer:

Dee Bozacigurbuz academicmisconduct@uel.ac.uk