TU Dublin Assessment and Feedback for Learning should be:

  1. Transparent and understandable:
     Assessment method purpose, processes and standards are clear to staff and students from the early stages of the programme;
  2. Valid, fair, practice- based and authentic:
     Assessment practices are pedagogically informed and employed to support the development of professional skills, ethical conduct and Academic Integrity values;
  3. Balanced across a programme:
     Staff and student assessment and feedback related workload is managed to enable all students to evidence their learning through the successful completion of a range of constructively aligned assessments, directly aligned to specific learning outcomes;
  4. Timely and enabling:
     Adequate opportunities are provided for students to act upon feedback, to progressively take more responsibility for their own learning and their development as self-regulated, autonomous learners;
  5. Student centred, active and engaging:
     Assessment strategies foster interaction and dialogue around task requirements that can encourage students and staff to become collaborators in learning;
  6. Beneficial to personal development:
     TU Dublin assessment and feedback strategies have a beneficial, constructive impact on learning by helping to build students’ self-efficacy, confidence and self-esteem;