Assessment is a fundamental pillar of quality education, and UCT remains dedicated to upholding fair and effective assessment practices.
The updated UCT Assessment Policy (adopted in 2024) provides a framework to enable the conditions for redesigning assessments. This policy recognises assessment as an integral component of the curriculum and a means to project what we value.
The policy is informed by:
- Assessment as an educational practice: what and how to teach to support student learning and success.
- Assessment as a social practice: designing assessments that are culturally sensitive, unbiased, equally accessible to all students and that allow all students to perform to their full potential.
- Assessment design must transcend individual assessment events considers the interconnectedness of learning outcomes across courses and programmes.
In support of developing and refining assessment practices introduced the UCT Assessment Policy, the following are available:
- UCT Good Practices for Assessment Guide: provides exemplar case studies designed in support of implementing the UCT Assessment Policy;
- Assessment Studio: offers UCT staff an opportunity to develop and refine their assessment activities and practices; and
- Enhancing Assessment Literacy and Practices in the Age of AI Project.
The Good Practices for Assessment Guide (GP4AG) is a comprehensive resource designed to help the UCT teaching community better understand and implement the UCT Assessment Policy in practice. The guide was developed in response to requests from the teaching community for practical support in applying the policy effectively.
Click here to visit the Good Practices for Assessment Guide (GP4AG) page.