Grading
The University of South Australia has a comprehensive policy framework which shapes assessment practices. These provide guidelines for graded and non-graded assessment for assignments and examinations, remarking and resubmission, and information on specific assessment themes, such as marking peer assessment, online discussions and group work.
Principles
While assessment practices vary across disciplines, student performance in a course’s assessment is given a grading notation, defined in the Assessment Policy and Procedures Manual. This specifies assessment processes, including the Code of good practice: Student assessment for designing assessment that is inclusive, equitable, valid, reliable and formative, designing assessments using a variety of assessment models, scheduling assessment and the use of marking criteria.
The UniSA Context
- Assessment Explained provides clear and useful information about assessment processes and the grading system used at the University of South Australia. In this resource is a table that displays Assessment Notation and defines the nomenclature, percentages and grade units for final grades. This webpage is directed at students, and includes an explanation of what grading means, grade point averages, questions about assignments, examinations and final grades.
- Extra Course information: Assessment of courses presents information on graded and non-graded assessment, dealing with failed assessment, examinations and academic misconduct.
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Assessment and Assessment resources at UniSA describes assessment practices
within the university's policy framework. This page includes
assessment resources at the University of South Australia, external resources on assessment, and references on assessment and feedback. - Assessment Policies and Procedures Manual
Case Studies & Exemplars
- "How will I be assessed" in Working in Teams
- Assessment criteria, and Assessing group work, The University of Technology Sydney Assessment webpage.
- Guides to preparing assignments:
- Essay assignment - Aboriginal Health and Culture
- "How will I be assessed" in Working in teams
- Criteria for evaluating educational multimedia
Reading & Resources
Search these sites for the latest about grading assessment
- Assessing Learning in Australian Universities:
- Deliberations
- Higher Education Academy – Assessment
- Journal Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education (search through UniSA library catalogue)
- USA assessment web-sites
- EASS Assessment Resource