How is my work marked?

Anonymous marking

Anonymous marking is the practice of marking a piece of work without knowledge of the identity of the student concerned.

You are provided with a confidential exam candidate number on the back of your University card for use at closed examinations that you have to attend in person. Only the staff in Student Services can identify you from your exam candidate number.

For summative submissions through Turnitin, it is essential that you do not save your work with any details that may breach your anonymity (including student number, candidate number or name). Turnitin submissions are allocated a Turnitin Submission ID which is a unique number that you cannot be identified by until the day of results release published on the assessment schedule.

There is a risk that a student with a lengthy deadline that is not marked prior to the published results release date may have their anonymity removed at the time results are released for the main cohort. This is unavoidable but please be assured that markers and moderators are bound by professional standards to mark without bias. Internal moderation and external moderation procedures are in place to ensure that students’ mark is worked to a consistent standard.

Confidentiality is maintained wherever possible throughout the assessment process. Candidate number and student name never appear together on student work or in any documentation such as results lists or minutes of Board of Examiners meetings.

Summative assessments in practice placement, audio/video recordings and presentations that are carried out by practice-based assessors cannot be conducted anonymously. Therefore, all related documentation contains the student’s name rather than their exam candidate number.

Marking criteria

All work is marked against each module’s published criteria and a whole integer percentage mark awarded, except where a module or assessment has approval to be marked on a pass/fail basis (i.e. no academic mark given).

General Marking Criteria relating to each mark banding are published on the Student Intranet and are provided to markers to inform the marking process.

Detailed Assessment Guidelines are also produced for students and markers for each module’s assessment.