Designing assessment regimes

An assessment regime refers to the set of assessable tasks within a unit, along with their respective contributions to the final grade. It outlines how student performance is measured ensuring alignment with unit and course learning outcomes. A well-structured regime also motivates learning, provides meaningful feedback, and supports students’ skill development.

As Monash moves towards a programmatic approach to assessment, the focus shifts from individual tasks to a cohesive, continuous approach that gathers comprehensive evidence of student learning over time.

What must the assessment regime include?

The assessment regime should be specifically designed for each unit, however all assessment regimes must:

  • Assess all unit learning outcomes
  • Assess knowledge, skills and attributes that contribute to the student’s achievement of course learning outcomes
  • Be appropriate to the level and credit-point value of the unit
  • Be equivalent for all modes and locations of offerings in the same teaching period
  • Include at least two major assessment tasks (i.e. tasks worth at least 20% of the total unit assessment)
  • Have no task worth more than 60% of the total unit assessment, except in zero credit point units or thesis units
  • Specify where and how generative artificial intelligence tools may be used, based on educational reasoning, the assessment task and its function in generating particular evidence of student learning.
  • Be designed to minimise the potential for breaches of academic integrity
  • Be renewed to prevent any students with knowledge of the task and/or its solution from a previous offering
  • Have text-based assignments submitted electronically.

Note

For more details on what an assessment regime must include, refer to the Assessment Regime Procedure

Responsibilities

Chief Examiners or Unit Coordinators are responsible for designing and implementing the unit’s assessment regime. Course leaders must maintain oversight to ensure that the student journey includes an appropriate balance of tasks both within and across year levels, that evidence the achievement of course learning outcomes.

The Dean (or delegate) of the unit-owning faculty is responsible for approving the assessment regime as part of unit accreditation, and for approving any amendments. Where a coursework unit is offered in a graduate research course, the Graduate Research Committee Course and Programs Sub-committee is responsible for approving the assessment regime.


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