Assessment Standards in HLST Position Paper Published

Date: 26-March-2010 

On 13 November 2009 an Assessment Standards workshop, facilitated by Dr Chris Rust of the ASKe CETL and Senior Fellow of the HE Academy, was held at Oxford Brookes University to discuss the characteristics of final year (level six) assignments assessed at the threshold of first class work. A position paper detailing the outcomes of the workshop is now available.

The workshop was a response to the attention afforded in recent years to standards, the role of external examiners in this process and, indeed, the robustness of the UK honours degree classification system.

The workshop represented a disciplinary perspective on the issue and focused on the assessment of final year work at first class level. About twenty academics from across the HLST subjects and a range of UK universities met to firstly assess work in small groups and then to discuss and agree the standards of the work and the original assessment process.

The work shop concluded with further discussions about the nature of first class work at level six and how the HSLT Subject Centre and its subject community could build on the enthusiasm and the momentum of the workshop. There was broad agreement about the assessment process and outcomes of both the original markers and each others’ efforts and there was consensus on the characteristics of first class work. The workshop concluded with some thoughts on further activity in this important aspect of work.

The position paper can be read below.

 

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