Assessment and Feedback Strategy

The University's current Assessment and Feedback Strategy is as follows:

1. All Colleges have an Assessment and Feedback policy taking into account this document.

2. There are guidelines available on the use of a range of assessment methods which are disseminated appropriately to staff involved in assessment and feedback processes.

3. All methods used to assess and provide feedback on student performance are transparent, fair, and fit for purpose, and take account of a diversity of learning styles. 

4. All staff involved in assessment processes are appropriately trained.

5. Programmes and modules have an appropriate balance of formative and summative assessment, and in particular all level 1 modules must include regular formative feedback.

6. If recommended by the appropriate body, students with disabilities have access to alternative comparable assessment tasks.

7. When assessment is designed, consideration is given to the need to eliminate opportunities for plagiarism. 

8. Assessed coursework is set in a timely manner, with reasonable arrangements for its submission, with the objective of the assessment and the assessment and marking criteria available to all students in advance.

9. All (formative and summative) assessed work is made available to students with appropriate feedback within a reasonable period, providing demonstrable evidence of the consistent application of marking criteria. 

10.1 To use e-learning to enhance formative assessment within modules

10.2 . To use IT to facilitate assessment

These goals (10.1 and 10.2) come directly from the e-learning strategy, but are replicated here to indicate the cross-links between the strategies.

Background information on the development of this strategy

Information on the strategy's purpose, context and principles