This WIHEA Learning Circle undertook a 360-degree evaluation of the self-certification procedure and policy as implemented by different departments across the university. The working group obtained evaluation data on the ‘lived experience’ of the self-certification policy both from our student community and departments. Furthermore, the Learning Circle explored the implications of self-certification for different programme-level assessment strategies.

Through this work, the Learning Circle aimed to:

• Capture department specific experiences of the self-certification policy and their rationale for their embedded policy
• Capture the experience of different departments and their students’ use of the self certification policy
• Share examples of good local practices of the self-certification policy
• Create a guide to enable department to consider their assessment strategy and make informed decisions on how to best to adopt, where possible, the self-certification policy

It also prepared and presented a guidance document to accompany the Self-certification policy to be presented at the Faculty Education Committees for comment before submission of a report of the findings to the Academic Quality and Standards Committee (AQSC), and developed a training resource for students on the self-certification policy to be used by the departments as required.