The Open University will soon be considering the capping of grades for
resubmitting or deferral students. The rationale is that those students
will have had longer than any students who will have completed during the
normal time span and therefore would be unfairly advantaged over them.
Sometimes external examiners have referred to this in their reports and
asked for it to be made impossible to get more than a grade 4 pass in
these cases.
Do any other institutions cap the result grades for resubmitting and
deferral students?
I should be grateful to know of your policies on this, both in the case of
capping or in the case of not doing so.
Many thanks
Mitzi
Assessment Policy Office
Open University
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