5. Quality Assurance

5. Quality Assurance

Table 4: Staff responsibilities with regard to quality assurance of courses and units

Faculties will oversee and assure the quality of all courses and units and the appropriateness and quality of assessment in those courses and units, and undertake moderation and benchmarking, in accordance with the following:

Timing and category of task Action required Responsible Officer
1. Course and unit oversight
  1. Establish course/discipline committees and appoint chairs according to the needs of the Faculty/School.
  2. Develop a process for the approval of Unit Outlines and the development, moderation and review of assessment within the Faculty/Schools.
 Executive Dean or nominee
  1. Oversee all units offered by the School.
 Head of School or
National Head of School
  1. Monitor unit evaluations and assessment practices in the Faculty/School and provide advice as appropriate.
 Executive Dean or nominee
Head of School or
National Head of School
2. Quality assurance of assessment
  1. Ensure a whole of course approach to assessment, including alignment of criteria and standards to unit and course learning outcomes.
  2. Ensure there is an appropriate and varied range of assessment types, mapped across the course, that are developmental, especially in relation to academic literacy the University graduate attributes and their English language capabilities.
  3. Ensure that all assessment is moderated at the design stage, during its implementation and post-implementation.
  4. Ensure that assessment is equivalent across campuses/locations and appropriate to the development level of the unit.
 Course Coordinator or
Head of School
3. Moderation, review and benchmarking
  1. Ensure that the design, pre-moderation and post-moderation of assessment in units is implemented in accordance with Faculty quality assurance practices and procedures.
  2. Assessment tasks will be subject to routine pre-assessment review to ensure that they reflect appropriate assessment design, including their fit with unit learning outcomes, focus on higher-order learning, use of appropriate assessment criteria and appropriateness in relation to progressive learning and assessment during the course as well as alignment with pre-requisite unit’s learning outcomes.
  3. Units offered across campuses must be developed to ensure that they have equivalent assessment tasks with the same learning outcomes and graduate attributes at the same standards. Variation is possible but equivalence should be demonstrable and no students should be advantaged or disadvantaged relative to students undertaking the unit at another campus or location or in another study mode. Please see Assessment Policy - Section 6.
  4. Moderation will be undertaken in all units to ensure the assessment criteria and standards used when marking are consistent with the criteria and standards that would be applied by other markers in the same discipline. Evidence of moderation must be provided with the recommended grades and marks provided to Faculty Board.
  5. Students should be informed that it is routine practice for samples of students’ work to be used for moderation.
 Executive Dean or nominee

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