Robustness of Degree Classifications

📄 Project Abstract

The University of Leeds currently uses two award algorithms to generate a student's final degree classifications. The best overall mark resulting from the calculations done under each algorithm is then used to classify the students in the appropriate boundaries. It is the aim of this project to analyse the robustness of degree classifications in the school of computing. This simply means to look at the effects on the overall number of degrees awarded at each level by calculating student's grades under a variety of award algorithms. The project will also look at other institutions to establish which award algorithms they are using to calculate their students classifications. Some of these algorithms will then be applied to the test data to be acquired from Leeds University's computing student's records. Upon extraction of the data from the School of Computing's SIS database, a number of different algorithms will then be applied to each student's results. Based on these calculated result...