UEL

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UELs Assessment and Feedback Policy

• David Rowley
• Associate Dean, School of Health, Sport and
  Bioscience
• Academic Practice and Student Experience

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Context
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Context
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Assessment Engagement Policy

• Introduction
• Assessment Design
• Assessment, Moderation and Marking
• Management of Assessment
• Feedback
• Disability
• Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Body
  Exemptions

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1. Introduction

• The 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

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2. Assessment Design -effective design ensures
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Assessment Design -effective design ensures
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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.

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3. Assessment, Moderation Marking
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Assessment, Moderation Marking
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Assessment, Moderation Marking key issues
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Assessment, Moderation Marking
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Assessment, Moderation Marking
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Assessment, Moderation MarkingResolving
differences between markers
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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.

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Assessment, Moderation MarkingExternal
Moderation External Examiners are sent
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4. Management of assessment
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Management of assessment
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Management of assessment
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Management of assessment
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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.

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5. Feedback
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5. Feedback
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6. Disability
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Disability
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7. Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Body
Exemptions

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

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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

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SUMMATIVE TARIFF Maximum Assessment loads per module SUMMATIVE TARIFF Maximum Assessment loads per module SUMMATIVE TARIFF Maximum Assessment loads per module
Assessment Mode Level 0-M (15 credits) Level 0-M (30 credits)
Assessment Mode or or
Coursework 3000 words 6000 words
Coursework or or
Written Examination 135 minutes 270 minutes (with no one component exceeding 180 minutes)
Written Examination or or
Practical (face-to-face) examination, viva, presentation or practical skills demonstration 45 minutes 90 minutes
Practical (face-to-face) examination, viva, presentation or practical skills demonstration or or
Dissertation 4500 words 9000 words
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UELs Assessment and Feedback Policy

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

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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

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Cite Them Right

• UELs Standard Referencing System
• is Cite Them Right (Harvard)
• or APA for students
• studying programmes in the
• School of Psychology.

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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)

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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

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Most common types of Academic Misconduct

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

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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

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Policies and Regulations

• Academic Integrity
• Use of Turnitin
• Standard Referencing
• http//www.uel.ac.uk/qa/policies/policies/

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Key Contacts

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

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Key Contacts

• Academic Misconduct Officer
• Dee Bozacigurbuz
• academicmisconduct_at_uel.ac.uk