uwe bristol external examiners day 29 th january 2014 jenny dye, ug modular scheme leader, hls...
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UWE Bristol
External Examiners day
29th January 2014
Jenny Dye, UG Modular Scheme Leader, HLSJudith Ritchie, Director of PG Studies, FET
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External Examiners
• Field EE appointed with responsibility for a module or specified group of modules within a named field.
• Chief EE appointed to each named modular scheme. A Chief EE shall not have responsibility for any field in that modular scheme or in any
other modular scheme. • Non-modular/Linear EE
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Roles and Responsibilities of the Field External Examiner• Ensure assessments are properly conducted
• Ensure standards/levels are appropriate
• Participate in Field Board decision-making e.g. consideration of any adverse cohort circumstances
• Report on the effectiveness of assessments and the conduct of the examining board
• Report any matters of serious concern arising from the assessments which put at risk the module standard
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Activities may include:• Reviewing assessment tasks • Sampling the marking of student work
– Expected documentation
• Placement visits for professional practice modules • Hearing the student voice• Attending Examination Boards• Acting as a critical friend to the module / programme
team• Writing an Annual Report for the University
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Field EEs are not permitted to;
• Attend Award Boards (unless a PSRB requirement)
• Be involved in any decisions which are not within the remit of the Field Board e.g. consideration of EC’s
• to change a mark for an individual student.
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Roles and Responsibilities of the Non-modular/Linear EE
• Appointed to an award
• One non-modular/linear EE takes the role of ‘chief’ EE for that award
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Roles and responsibilities of the Modular Chief EE• To ensure that assessment processes are
fair and rigorous across an entire modular scheme (which may encompass a number of awards at both UG and PG levels)
• To attend award boards and ensure that recommendations for awards and their classification have been reached in accordance with Academic Regulations and Procedures
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Regulations and Field Board Reports• Three types of modules;
– Standard/project/professional practice
• Regulations around;
1.Late Work
2.Assessment Offences
3.Adverse Group Circumstances
4.Extenuating Circumstances
5.Other policies.
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Field/Award workshop
• More specific details, e.g. when and how Field EEs have access to student work, will be provided in later workshop
Any questions?
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Case 1
MCQ paper – 50% weighting of a module assessment; post exam it appears that one seminar group (one sixth of the cohort) were shown a previous MCQ paper in their pre exam revision session. When this paper was compared to the paper actually sat, ¾ of the questions were identical.
What advice might you give the module team?
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Case 2
You are EE for a module that is delivered at UWE and at 2 FE colleges (collaborative provision).
During external moderation you note the following statistics;
What are your questions/considerations?
HE/FE Average mark Pass rate
UWE 58.4% 88%
FE (A) 65.5% 90%
FE (B) 47.9% 100%
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Case 3Module Y assessment = essay (100% weighting);At the Field Board the module leader states that potentially all students have been disadvantaged as a key member of staff was absent through sickness for most of the module run, the module leader proposes that all students should either have their mark raised by 5% or 5 marks to compensate.What would you expect the chair to do and how might you contribute?
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Case 4
The majority of the students on a programme work for a government agency. A letter is received from their manager, explaining that many of the students had an excessive workload because of a crisis situation during the exam period. An extension is suggested for all affected assessments. 4 assessments are potentially affected: 2 exams: sat just before request received 1 assessment: deadline just passed1 assessment: deadline a week after request received.
The programme manager contacts you as EE of the modules affected, what is your role?