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Criteria sheets—friend or foe?
Conference presentation

Criteria sheets—friend or foe?

Janet Wyvill and Peter R Grainger
Learning & Teaching Week, 2014 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 01-Sep-2014–05-Sep-2014)
University of the Sunshine Coast
2014
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Abstract

Specialist Studies in Education criteria sheet university assessment
Criteria sheets are routinely identified as essential ingredients of assessment practices and an integral part of quality assurance processes in universities. They are designed to provide guidance to both assessors and students in regard to evidence of standards when grading student work. However, the criteria sheet can also be a source of confusion and frustration for assessors (full time staff and sessional staff), moderators and students. This confusion may be linked to the structure of the criteria sheet, and subjective words used for the standards descriptors on the criteria sheet. We are interested in investigating the nature of criteria sheets and the impact they have on the key stakeholders for which they are designed. We conducted a number of assessment related projects with students and staff in the SOE to discover that the development of criteria sheets, whilst a prerequisite quality assurance mechanism, must be carefully crafted and designed in order to maximise their impact and fulfil their purposes. We encountered resistance to change from both staff and students when we tried to implement a new model of a criteria sheet with different design features, a different look and a focus on what could be called threshold behaviours when describing standards. This presentation will discuss a new model of criteria sheet and its applications across university assessment.

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