EXAMINATION AND ASSESSMENT
Continuous Assessment
Learners’ assessment is guided by the examination policy, which provides for two levels of assessment:
(i) Continuous Assessment Tests (CATS), upon which two CATS are administered to the learners, one being a sit-in CAT and the second is administered in form of assignments, whether individual or group. The latter form of CATS are designed to introduce the learners to positive reading culture by looking for reading materials and writing researched work, while the former is designed to ensure that learners continuously read what they are taught in class.
(ii) The second level of assessment is the end semester/end course examination.
Scores from both levels of assessment contribute to the final score and grade that the learners gets, and as such, learners are required to pass both to progress to the next level of study.
Formative and summative assessments in ODEL programmes, including their weighting:
End of semester examinations shall consist of Continuous Assessment Tests (CATs), assignments, practical (where applicable) which shall contribute 30% (undergraduate), 40% (post-graduate) and University examinations which shall contribute 70% (undergraduate), 60% (post- graduate). CATs are compulsory, failure to sit for a CAT shall lead to a fail in the unit. Where a course is solely of practical work, it may be examined wholly by Continuous Assessment and or practical assessment. CATs will be conducted in form of take away assignments with inclination towards Open-Book assessment practice, while examination will be undertaken physically at the recommended centres and campuses until such time as the University will procure Proctor or any such suitable virtual examination medium.
Criteria for the evaluation of learners work and participation;
To take CATS, learners are expected to have covered at least 40% coursework in the respective unit as to do 1st CAT and at 70% to do 2nd CAT. Each learners must attend at least 3/4 of the lectures for a unit in a semester, to be allowed to sit for examination in that unit.