Generic assessment criteria to guide marking in qualitative and quantitative work at each level (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) are available here. 

ASSESSMENT HANDBOOK

The first edition of the  University's Assessment Handbook, endorsed by the Teaching and Learning Committee, was published in  2001.

The handbook has been compiled as a practical guide, to assist academic and other staff engaged in the assessment of students of the University or of its partner institutions.  It is intended to promote best practice.  Written at a general University level, it does not stand in isolation from faculty or subject-level policies and strategies which it complements.

The Working Group which compiled the Assessment Handbook undertook a review in 2002. Further editions were published in 2003, 2007 and annually since 2009.  The 2011 edition incorporates Principles of Assessment and Feedback for Learning (1.3) and the revised Policy on the Accreditation of Prior Learning (13) approved in June 2011.

Changes made in 2010 were:

• a paper 'Assessment 2020, seven propositions for assessment reform in higher education' (D Boud and Associates 2010); (Section 1.2, Appendix A);

• revised regulations on presentation of examination material (2.9, 3.6);
• University policy on individual assessment in group work (9);
• revised invigilation policy (19.2).

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