Assessment Board Operations

Caroline Wedley

Student Data Services

Overview – Assessment Board Operations

• Curriculum designed around a well established model of modular programmes, with some limited exceptions (eg some non-modular professional programmes)

• Student assessments all tracked centrally (“SITS”)

• Assessment Board paperwork generated from a single source to one standard

Assessment data management

• All recording of attempts, referrals, deferrals etc fully integrated.

• Assessment marks are recorded by component (eg examination, assignment etc)

• Marks provided by completion of centrally provided mark sheets, either as electronic spreadsheets or completed by hand.

• Administrators key data into central system.

Board operation /1

• Central production of Module pre-board / board paperwork via central database facility

• Board conducted with ‘Visualiser’ (camera-driven OHP) or electronically displayed (Wm Morgan room)

• Following Module board, marks are amended as necessary and coded as “agreed”

• Progression and award calculations run centrally

Board operation /2

• Progression/Award Board paperwork production by programme administrators to a standard format via central database facility

• Progression/Award Boards take place: either paper-based (with ‘Visualiser’) or electronic display

• Post-board - Progressions and Awards confirmation undertaken centrally

• Transcripts and result letters produced by programme administrators. Increasing availability of student on-line access to module results.

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Recent Improvements

• Mark sheets directly generated from central record: assists in identifying remaining incorrect module registrations

• Annual improvements to paperwork presentation, recording of marks, procedures, staff skills etc

• Focus on rule-based electronic processing (eg updates of progressions and award calculation)

• Experimenting with ‘browser-based’ mark input for distributed mark input (remote administrators etc)

• Further access for students to on-line results

Thank you