Section 10: Annexes

10.1 Annex I. School UG Assessment Criteria

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10.2 Annex II School TP Assessment Criteria

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10.3 Staff with Management Responsibility for the Assessment Process

This section describes the key members of staff and committees involved in the assessment process within the Leeds University Business School and describes their main responsibilities.

Executive Dean of the Faculty

The Executive Dean of the Faculty, as the representative of the Senate, is ultimately responsible for all examination and assessment matters in the School. However, many of these responsibilities are delegated to other members of staff and to various formal committees.

Pro Dean for Student Education

The Pro Dean for Student Education, at the Faculty level, is not directly involved with the assessment of most students, but has overall responsibility for quality assurance, standards and quality enhancement of the Faculty's learning and teaching provision. The Pro Dean chairs the Faculty Taught Student Education Committee.

Faculty Director of Assessment

The Faculty Director of Assessment is responsible to the Pro Dean for Student Education, on behalf of the Executive Dean, for the development, organisation and management of the assessment policy and practices within the School.

Faculty Director of Enhancement and Innovation

The Director of Enhancement and Innovation provides academic leadership and oversight to the pedagogical development of taught programmes parented by the Business School including the development of the digital learning resources.

School Academic Lead for Inclusive Pedagogies

The School Academic Lead for Inclusive Pedagogies is a nominated member of academic staff who is responsible for promoting and embedding inclusive approaches.

Faculty Director of Quality and Programmes

The Director of Quality and Programmes provides academic leadership and oversight to the development of taught programmes parented by the Business School, and the quality assurance of their delivery.

Faculty Director of Student Support and Academic Personal Tutoring

The Director of Taught Programmes (Student Support and Academic Personal Tutoring) provides academic leadership and oversight to the development and delivery of student support on taught programmes parented by the Business School.

Departmental Directors of Student Education (DDSE)

The Departmental Director of Student Education is responsible for the overall management of undergraduate and taught postgraduate examinations and assessment in their respective department. Whilst the Departmental Director of Student Education has a responsibility to oversee the range of different types and timing of assessments on programmes, this is often discharged in co-operation with Programme Leaders.

Programme Leaders

A Programme Leader is responsible to the Departmental Director of Student Education for the development, organisation and management of a named programme and for the academic experience of the students on that programme. Programme Leaders play an active part in the development of the School’s portfolio of programmes and the enhancement of the student academic experience. The Programme Leader for each programme is listed in the programme catalogue.

Module Leaders

A Module Leader, a contracted member of academic staff, is appointed to lead each module in the School’s portfolio and is responsible for its development, organisation and management, as well as for the assessment of students. Module Leaders, in liaison with Programme Leaders, are responsible to the Departmental Director of Student Education acting on behalf of the Pro-Dean for Student Education and Executive Dean of the Faculty. The Module Leader for each module is listed in the module catalogue.

Academic Integrity Lead

The Academic Integrity Lead is a nominated member of academic staff who is responsible for ensuring consistency within the School in implementing academic misconduct procedures and practice and investigating suspected cases of academic misconduct. The aim is to ensure equity of treatment of students. The role also involves academic integrity education, such as raising staff and student awareness of academic misconduct issues.

Student Education Service

The Student Education Service (SES) is responsible for the support of students throughout their time at University and supports academic staff in the administration of module assessments and final Degree Classification. SES staff manage the administration in relation to assessment for modules (including the collation, entry, and release of marks in line with University regulations), support School level procedures such as mitigating circumstances and academic integrity and services all Assessment, Progression and Awards Boards.

Operational Delivery Lead for Assessment

The role of the Operational delivery Lead, as a member of the Faculty Education School Management team, is to liaise with staff involved in assessment to improve the consistency of processes and practices and to promote the sharing of ideas and good practice. The Operational Delivery Lead will also co-ordinate the introduction of developments or improvement initiatives which impact upon assessment.

Senior Student Education Service Officers – Assessment

The Senior Student Education Service Officers have responsibility for Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate assessment respectively. It is the Programme Officer’s role to facilitate the delivery of assessment within their own area, from the setting of assessment to classification at the examination board. They also work closely with the Operational Delivery Lead and the Faculty Assessment Directors to deliver continuous improvement in the delivery of student education practices, with a particular focus on the area of assessment.

11. Annex: Internal Examiners and Assessment Assistants

11.1a Internal Examiners

Every taught credit-bearing module must have an internal examiner, an identified individual who takes responsibility for the assessment on each module. Although marking of assessment may be undertaken by a team, the internal examiner has responsibility for the marks awarded. The internal examiner is usually the module leader.

There may be occasions when it is appropriate for another qualified and experienced individual, such as a Foreign Language Assistant, a member of staff at a collaborating partner institution, or a retired or visiting member staff, to act as internal examiner. The module leader retains overall responsibility and accountability for the module whilst delegating responsibility for assessment to another.

In such cases, the School will make a formal nomination of the individual as an internal examiner and the appointment will be approved by the Faculty Taught Student Education Committee, or by the Chair acting on its behalf.

11.1b Assessment Assistants

Assessment assistants are individuals who, working under the supervision of the internal examiner, assist with the marking of students' work.

The internal examiner remains formally responsible for assessment design and for the marks awarded.

Assessment assistants usually have a formal link with the University (for example, are studying for a research degree), but are not academic members of staff. Assessment assistants are approved, appointed and monitored at the school level.

11.1c Use of Assessment Assistants

The School appoints assessment assistants under defined circumstances:

Where the assessment is conducted against well-defined success criteria, e.g. in the case of an MCQ paper.

11.1d Monitoring and Training for Assessment Assistants

Marking undertaken by Assessment Assistants is comprehensively monitored. The School maintains a complete, detailed and up-to-date record of appointed assessment assistants and the training they have received.

11.2 Annex: External Examiners

The School follows the agreed University procedures relating to external examiners for all taught programmes.

An External Examiner is appointed by the University to oversee each programme or area of study. The External Examiner provides independent assurance of the efficacy and fairness of the assessment procedures and maintenance of academic standards. External Examiners’ reports from previous years are available to students.

11.3 Annex: Student Education Committees

The process of approving programme and module specifications, including assessment design, is the responsibility of the formal Faculty Taught Student Education Committees and School Taught Student Education Committees.

11.4 Annex: Assessment Committees

There are two types of meeting:

the School Assessment Board (see Section 4.10a School Assessment Board), which oversees module marks/grades, and;
the Progression and Awards Board (see Section 6.2b Progression and Awards Board), which determines final outcomes (such as classification).

11.5 Annex: Mitigating Circumstances Guidance

The Mitigating Circumstances Guidance is available on the Student Cases website page

11.6 Annex: The Rules for Award

The Rules for Award are the rules, approved by the Senate, under which the schools are allowed to make awards on behalf of the University. The Rules for Award explain the University’s general requirements for each type of qualification.