Assessment Policies

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Academic Services Division
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Assessment Policies ProceduresExaminations
Office/RegistryAcademic Services Division
Sandra Mienczakowski Ian Hamley Hannah Robinson
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Examination Scheduling Adjustments to
Examination ArrangementsExaminations
OfficeAcademic Services Division
Sandra Mienczakowski
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Examination Scheduling

• Scheduling Exams
• Constraints
• Overseas exams
• Resit exams
• Invigilation

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Adjustments to Exam Arrangements

• Assessment for adjustments to exam arrangements
• Implementation
• Accident/short-term illness arrangements

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Marks Processing Submitting DecisionsExaminati
ons Office/RegistryAcademic Services Division
Sandra Mienczakowski Ian Hamley
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Marks Processing

• Saturn marksheets
• Calculations
• Exam meeting reports
• What marks processing doesnt do

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Submitting DecisionsRegistryAcademic Services
Division
Ian Hamley
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Submitting Decisions

• Return template with Boards decision
• Reassessment opportunities recorded
• Compensation regulations and risk

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Submitting Decisions

• Write to non-progressing students
• Assessment Channel for all students
• Reassessment fee levied

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• For further information
• Exams Officers Portal Group
• Marks Processing Contacts Portal Group
• www.nottingham.ac.uk/courses-office/examinations/i
  ndex.htm
• www.nottingham.ac.uk/academic-office/studentregist
  ry/ www.nottingham.ac.uk/quality-manual/

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Academic OffencesGovernance and
LogisticsAcademic Services Division
Hannah Robinson
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Academic Offencesall you need to know or where
to go find it

• What constitutes an academic offence
• What is the role of a School?
• Role of the Governance and Logistics team
• Legal action
• A word about penalties
• Prevention rather than cure

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Identifying Academic Offences

• Cheating in an examination
• Fabrication of results
• Plagiarism (including collusion)
• Use of Turn-it-in

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Role of the School

• The cycle for Schools in taking action is
• Declaration/guidance
• Suspicion
• Investigate and document
• Underlying issues?
• Use academic judgement

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Role of the School (2)

• What action is open to a School?
• Charge
• penalise
• first offence guilty plea
• A range of suggested penalties laid out in the
  Quality Manual
• http//www.nottingham.ac.uk/quality
  manual/assessment/offences.htm
• refer
• first offence not guilty plea
• Penalty in excess of 3 options
• second offence
• PGR student
• first offence, guilty plea but appeal against
  sentence

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Role of the Governance and Logistics team (1)

• Step 1 Receive written report
• Step 2 Student notified and hearing is convened
  
• Step 3 Hearing arranged and supported School
  representative is required to attend
• Step 4 Notification of outcome
• Step 5 Manage escalation of case
• Council Appeal Body/OIA/Legal case
• Unlike other procedures there is only one
  element of the procedure which has a time frame
  attached. Nevertheless a balance between due
  process and timeliness should be practiced by all
  involved.

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Role of the Governance and Logistics team (2)

• Advisor
• Administrator
• Institutional memory
• Policy development
• Public face of the process
• - Legal backdrop
• - OIA

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A Word About Penalties

• You have some flexibility and discretion
  (honestly)
• 2nd offences expect a strong penalty
• Importance of thorough action in the case of the
  first offence
• Understanding the consequences of the penalty
• Expect that the case may be reviewed

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Prevention? Its a Work in Progress

• Awareness raising
• Setting a deterrent
• Sensitivity to culture
• Building up experience