Reassessment

The Course Profile should outline clearly what choices are available to students who fail an assessment item. Efforts should be made to minimise students’ chances of failure through ongoing monitoring and support. Where possible, students who fail should be given an opportunity for academic recovery (i.e. to pass via a re-submit or re-attempt process - collectively these two terms are referred to as 'reassessment').

Course Convenors, in consultation with the Program Director, decide whether they will offer an opportunity for academic recovery when they are preparing the Course Profile and subsequently need to select the system’s appropriate item to enable their decision.

The following assessment types will display the 'Re-submission' functionality:

  • Assignment - Laboratory/Laboratory Report
  • Assignment - Planning Document
  • Assignment - Problem Solving
  • Assignment - Research-based
  • Assignment - Written
  • Creative Synthesis
  • Peer Assessment
  • Portfolio- evidence

The following assessment types will display the 'Re-attempt' functionality:

  • Assignment - Laboratory/Laboratory Report
  • Assignment - Practice-based Assignment
  • Exam - constructed response
  • Exam - oral
  • Exam - practical/laboratory/clinical
  • Exam - selected and constructed responses
  • Exam - selected response
  • Guided discussion with peers
  • Log of Learning Activities
  • Peer_Assessment
  • Performance - Artistic
  • Performance_Artistic
  • Presentation – technical or professional
  • Presentation_Technical or Professional
  • Test or Quiz
  • Workplace-based assessment

The assessment types 'Academic development holistic assessment' and ‘Student Negotiated Assessment' do not display either academic recovery approach.

Course Convenors must state plainly in the Course Profile the specific assessment items for which re-submission or re-attempt of assessment will be permitted.

Re-submission is where a student is permitted to make substantial changes to a nominated assessment task which they have failed, within a specified timeframe for re-examination by the original examiner to achieve a mark no greater than the minimum for a pass standard for the assessment task. The student has five working days from return of the assessment task to resubmit for re-examination. Re-submission is not to be offered for research projects or dissertations.

  • Select the appropriate radio button (Yes/No) to the question, 'Is resubmission available for this assessment task?'
  • Where 'Yes' has been selected, provide the conditions under which the item is to be re-submitted in the text field provided.

Re-attempt is where a student is given a second opportunity to demonstrate their achievement of one or more of the course’s key learning outcomes before they can progress to new learning, or participate in subsequent learning activities. A student who is given the opportunity to re-attempt assessment may achieve a mark no greater than the minimum for a pass standard for the assessment.

  • Select the appropriate radio button (Yes/No) to the question, 'Are students able to re-attempt this assessment task?'
  • Where 'Yes' has been selected, provide the conditions under which the item can be re-attempted in the text field provided.

Note: Where a configured assessment item is mapped to one academic recovery approach, you are unable to edit the item and change it to another assessment type that has a different recovery approach, for example, you cannot switch from 'Creative Synthesis' to 'Exam - oral'. Instead, you will need to start again and add a new assessment task.