Glossary

Student Amenities Higher Education Loan Program (SA-HELP) is a loan scheme that assists eligible students to pay for all or part of their student services and amenities fee.

The practice of adjusting the marks of a group of students eg a class cohort or tutorial group. Scales marks may be adjusted up or down usually as the result of a statistical calculation. Scaling does not change the rank order of students and is legitimately used when for example the average mark allocated to a particular cohort of students is considerably higher or lower that the performance demonstrated by the same cohort in other assessment items for the course or in other courses. However scaling should always be used with caution and should not be used to disguise problems with teaching or to force marks to fit a bell curve.

The administrative time period in which Teaching Periods are defined students enrol and for which students are charged fees or student contributions. CPEE has two semesters per year. The two semesters are structured around 14 weeks. Each semester also includes a one week mid-semester break and a one week revision period. A semester may be followed by an examination period.

The range of discipline-relevant abilities that a student acquires as part of their studies. They can include cognitive skills technical skills communication skills creative skills interpersonal skills and generic skills. They may be related to how a student uses or discovers the discipline knowledge acquired in their study or they may be related to the professional practice of those who work in the discipline.

Arrangements made for students where a student is unable because of disability or medical condition to undertake the same assessment in the same manner as other students. Adjusted Assessment may typically involve allowing additional time to complete an assessment task or the use of alternative assessment. Alternative assessment encompasses all assessment tasks inclusive of such as assignments designs and examinations

Credit granted when an exact or near exact equivalence to one or more units studied either at CPEE or at another higher education provider or through non-formal or informal / workplace prior learning can be demonstrated. Credit is awarded for a specific CPEE unit(s) based on where prior study and learning outcomes have satisfied the objectives learning outcomes and assessment requirements of that unit(s).

A person who has accepted an offer to a program of CPEE (award or non-award) has enrolled in at least one unit in that program and retains an active status in that program.

Covers all aspects of a student?s engagement with the provider including; initial enquiry application admission enrolment graduation and into the future as alumni.

The proportion of the standard full-time program taken by a student in a particular stage of a particular program calculated on the sum of the weight of all courses undertaken. (See also EFTSL.) The standard full-time annual student load for most programs is 8 units which is 1 EFTSL.

A type of exemption from a core unit or other requirement. Students are still required to complete an equivalent or near equivalent unit to the same unit of credit value.

Assessment where a student performance contributes to their final mark of grade in the course.

Supplementary assessments are intended to allow students to demonstrate satisfactory achievement of all unit learning outcomes in the event a student achieves an overall final mark between 45%-49% inclusive and has achieved any other mandated hurdle. Supplementary assessement Includes but is not limited to assessment by a practical examination a take-home examination or an essay. CPEE does not set formal examinations for Supplementary Assessment.