Course Profile assessment categories

Computer Code: Code for a computer including pseudo-code, where judgments can be made on functionality, structure and elegance, conformance to specified style guides, commenting and communication, etc. 

Creative Production/ Exhibition: Tasks that have an inventive, original, imagination-centred, and/or innovative focus or component, including a public display of works of art or items of interest.  

Paper/ Report/ Annotation: A written work with a specified structure or genre, including project proposal, various types of report (e.g. design, lab etc.), conference paper, case study, journal, literature review, plan, team charter, etc.  

Essay/ Critique: A written work with a specified structure or genre that focuses on developing a coherent argument through the work. 

Examination: Typically, any assessment item worth more than 20% that occurs for a student at a specified time, with a working time of less than or equal to three hours.  Examples include multiple choice questions, short answer responses, unseen essay questions, vivas, OSCEs and practical exams.  

Notebook/ Logbook: Students’ notes and records from a specific activity or activities, including laboratory notes, notes collected from visiting a site, a log of skills demonstrated, meeting notes, observation notes from observing a class or court, etc.   

Participation/ Student contribution: Student contributions to a specified activity beyond attendance where the quality of the student’s contributions is considered in relation to specified criteria and standards.  

Performance: For disciplines where performance work is standard including video submissions, set designs, theatrical performance pieces, dramaturgical mock interviews, news broadcasts, television/ gameshows, soap operas, and movie pitches. 

Placement: Students’ performance while in an industry, professional or community placement, assessed via direct observation of performance, recording of skills completed, collection of artefacts, feedback from supervisors and/or client/ personal reflection.   

Portfolio: A collection of artefacts for learning, assessment, reflection or showcasing about an individual learner, including ePortfolios. 

Poster: A visual summary of a project, research or activity for a specific group that may be accompanied by an interview or questions. 

Practical/ Demonstration: A practical activity using specific equipment, completing a specific process, or building/ demonstrating an artefact/ outcome that is assessed directly through observation activity, the outcomes of the activity, or documentation of the activity.  Assessment may also include an interview. 

Presentation: Oral, online, video or poster presentations, either individually or as a group/ team. 

Product/ Design: The creation of a design or product for a specific purpose and/ or audience assessed by direct examination of the product/ design, the creation process, and/or evidence of the effectiveness of the product/ design.   

Project: A task with established goals set by the course coordinator. 

Quiz: Similar to examination but focused on providing students with practice and feedback through lower weighting (<20%), less time pressure, repeated attempts, and/ or greater flexibility in timing and/or location.  

Reflection: Consideration of a student's own actions, contexts, and outcomes with a view to improving future work. 

Role play/ Simulation: Authentic assessment that allows students to practice real-life decision-making with minimal risks through playing a particular actor, stakeholder, or operator either in person or virtually. 

Thesis: Research or project-based documents that are usually worth 50-70% of a course mark. 

Translation/ Interpretation: Ability to translate a written or spoken text including writing the translation, live oral translation, or consecutive interpretation. 

Tutorial/ Problem Set: A set of questions used to assess a skill or concept. 

Activity/ Performance: Observation of the student doing a prescribed activity either live or via a recording. This could include observing a student’s creative performance, professional activities, or technical skill.

Oral: What a student communicates verbally, either in-person, through synchronous communications technology, or recorded. 

Product/ Artefact/ Multimedia: A physical or digital object created by the student. May include text, images, audio and/or video compiled, built on, and/or produced by the student.   

Written: Text written or selected by the student. This mode includes tasks such as MCQs, hotspots, ordering responses, etc. 

Hurdle: Specific compliance or performance outcomes must be satisfied for students to receive a specific grade or grades. 

Identity Verified: The student’s identity is checked and/or monitored through the assessment.  

In-person: Some or all the assessment must be completed at a specific location.  

Longitudinal: The assessment is conducted over an extended period (e.g. weeks or months).   

Online: The assessment is completed and submitted completely online. 

Peer Assessed: The assessment is peer marked, with moderation provided by the course coordinator.  

Peer Assessment Factor: A peer assessment factor is applied to an individual student’s mark. 

Sequence: A set of two or more assessment tasks of similar nature or common purpose that provide developmental learning opportunities or comprehensive assessment of a particular learning outcome.  

Student specific: Assessment details/ requirements are individualised through negotiation with students or allocation.  

Team or Group Based: Students are required to complete all or part of this task in a group or team of students.  

Time Limited: The working time available to students is not greater than 8 hours.  

Work integrated learning: The assessment requires students to engage with industry or community activities related to potential future employment.