Students Student assessment
Description
Student assessment is the process of evaluating students' abilities and achievements. ... While in some minds “standardized testing” is synonymous with “student assessment,” student assessment actually encompasses a variety of ways to determine how students are progressing in their learning.
Objectives
The purpose of assessment is to gather relevant information about student performance or progress, or to determine student interests to make judgments about their learning process. ... It also encourages the understanding of teaching as a formative process that evolves over time with feedback and input from students.
Outcome measure
Enhancing the employability competencies of the students and thereby achieve wage-employment or self-employment after graduation
Rationale
Effective student assessment enhances cognitive, psychometric and affective domains of learners and ensuring mastery of such competencies guarantee their employment in their field of study
Scale
Student assessment will be implemented throughout all of our regular undergraduate students
Resources required
Teachers, university management (leaders), external examiners, class-rooms, adequate budget, continuous assessment software
Definition of success
The expected success indicator for this strategy is employment of ≥80% of our graduates in 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21. By doing so, our graduates will have industry-needed competencies.
Milestones
1. Strengthened Continuous Assessment Implementation in 2018
2. Introduced or Strengthened External Assessment Practice in 2019
Leadership
Academic Vice President