Assessment practices at SNS Institutions should be both for and of learning. It should have a positive role in supporting the learning of students and in quality management and enhancement. Processes will be underpinned by transparency, supportiveness, respect and value of diversity.
Assessment serves the following purposes among others:
- Diagnosing student potential
- Evaluating student progress and identifying possible challenges they may be experiencing in their learning
- Help students to develop, through timely and constructive feedback
- Motivating students by requiring them to demonstrate the knowledge, understanding, skills and competencies they have developed
- Measuring achievement at appropriate academic levels
- Contributing to quality assurance, by monitoring the extent to which students are achieving appropriate standards
- Assessment is designed so as to maximize opportunities for students to demonstrate what they know, understand and can do. The Course Co-ordinators must ensure reliability and consistency of marks, while recognizing that academic professional judgment is a significant element in the process.
- Assessments are reliable, inclusive, and authentic and designed to measure the attaining of the learning systems.
- Faculty members should ensure that the student is the creator of the work submitted for assessment. Integrity of grades will be demonstrated through use of some or all of the following strategies appropriate to particular subjects and modes.
- Assessment is designed to encourage students to demonstrate their own learning, and to make connections with their own experiences
- Oral assessment should also be carried to ensure the skills, knowledge, understanding and values of the student are consistent with those illustrated in the work submitted for assessment
- The constructive feedback should be given to students. Personal, group or general feedback and marks should be given as soon as possible, for all assessments including IA examinations.
- All assessment will be monitored and evaluated as part of learning and teaching module and enhancement.
