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Are you fulfilling your role as an Examination Board effectively?
You can use this checklist to gain insight into how well your board meets its statutory responsibilities. It supports reflection on what is already in place, where risks or gaps may exist, and which actions could strengthen assessment quality and safeguarding. 
The checklist can also serve as a starting point for dialogue with programme management, helping to clarify responsibilities and align quality-assurance and safeguarding activities. It is structured from two perspectives—quality assurance (programme management) and safeguarding (Examination Board). While you may focus on one or both, reviewing them together offers valuable insight into how roles and responsibilities connect.

Flexible in use, the checklist can be adapted to your context by adding items or adjusting its layout. TIP: Completing it together with other stakeholders often leads to shared understanding and concrete actions. 

Illustration: De kwaliteitspiramide van eigentijds toetsen en beoordelen (The quality pyramid of contemporary testing and assessment. Translated). Source: Sluijsmans, van Schilt-Mol, Peeters & Joosten-ten Brinke, 2015.

Checklist to verify whether sufficient measures are in place to assure and safeguard the quality of assessment.

The section specifically for the examination board can be found starting on page 7. But to see what can be done by the programme management might also be interesting.


Checklists from elsewhere 

>> De Toetsing getoetst. A more elaborate method (but only available in Dutch)  
The method for investigating the quality of assessment, is described in the book "Kwaliteit van toetsing onder de loep: handvatten om de kwaliteit van toetsing in het hoger onderwijs te analyseren, verbeteren en borgen' (Dutch titel; can be translated as: "Quality of Assessment under the magnifying glass: Tools for analysing, improving and securing the quality of assessment in higher education".)
The method offers a cyclical instrument for self-evaluation from a broad perspective. The central element is an 'assessment web', which makes coherent factors in assessment quality visible. Assessment entities are connected to the development phase in quality assurance. For more information, see this website: https://www.han.nl/projecten/2011/de-toetsing-getoetst. You can also find out more about this approach via two articles:   OU_2016_artikel_De_touwtjes_in_handen_toetskwaliteit_in_het_hbo; OU-artikel_Toetskwaliteit onder de loep.

>> UVA checklist for Examination Boards (Dutch)
The University of Amsterdam also developed a checklist especially focused on the tasks and responsibilities of Examination Boards. You will notice there is - logically - an overlap with the checklist we created for the UT.  If you are interested, have a look at the UvA site. 

>> KIT instrument for Examination Boards (Dutch)
Examination Boards from the Hogeschool Utrecht developed the KIT Plus Borgingsinstrument voor Examencommissies.

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