Moderation

UC Assessment Policy is downloaded from here:
https://guard.canberra.edu.au/policy/policy.php?pol_id=2900

 6.1 Key principle: The standard of assessment in a unit will be equivalent wherever and however the unit is delivered. Assessment will be moderated to ensure that judgments of students’ performance are consistent, transparent, reliable and valid.

6.2 Moderation is a process whereby academic staff responsible for assessment in a course or unit reach consensus about levels of student performance in relation to a set of agreed standards. Moderation enables judgments made by different staff involved in assessing student performance to be compared and either validated or moderated.

6.3 Moderation is fundamental to good assessment practice. The purpose of moderation is to:
(a) maintain agreed standards in the assessment of student work through a valid, consistent and transparent process; and
(b) ensure that assessment reflects student performance rather than variable standards among different markers.

6.4 Courses will have documented moderation procedures.

6.5 Moderation requires additional safeguards to ensure consistency when there are multiple markers involved in assessing a unit.

6.6 When the work of a student is awarded a mark or grade that leads to a fail grade in a unit, the work must be reassessed by a colleague in the discipline.