Abstract:
Quality assurance within local educational institutions has been under the spotlight in
recent years. In particular these institutions are increasingly subjected to minimum
standards specified by controlling bodies such as the Higher Education Quality
Committee and others. The moderation of examination papers is an important quality
assurance activity to ensure that an examination paper’s standard, content, span and
marking are fair and reasonable. This paper describes a sampling plan to determine
the number of answer books to be checked to confirm that individual marks were
awarded correctly. The sampling procedure relates the confidence that marks
awarded in a set of examination books meets a specified minimum standard to the
number of books moderated.
