Checklist for examiners

As we have seen, there are many requirements for examiners from both laws, regulations, and KTH guidelines. Here is a summary of the tasks that examiners normally need to take care of in an examination, in chronological order. Memorise or bookmark this list so that you don't miss any steps when examining. When the exam moment is unchanged from the previous course round, which is often the case for example for project assignments and degree projects, it is mainly steps 6-10 that are involved. If the examiner is also a course coordinator, responsibilities such as making old exams available, conducting the examination, hiring co-assessors, and evaluating the examination are added, which is outside the pure examiner role.

1. Review course objectives and examinations in the course syllabus in a timely manner (before the opening of admissions for the course and the term before the start of the course).
2. Inform in the course memo about how the examination will be conducted, grading criteria, and how the grade will be set.
3. Design the examination according to the objectives of the course syllabus, the form of the examination, and the grading criteria (at this stage it is often useful to develop solution proposals, see point 9).
4. Have a colleague read the wording of the test.
5. Design the assessment protocol/review template according to the grading criteria.
6. Arrange adapted examinations when necessary (Funka).
7. Make sure that everyone involved in the assessment is aware of how it should be done and recorded.
8. Set the grade based on the evidence you have obtained, indicate who participated in the assessment, and certify it in Ladok.
9. Publish solution proposals, hold an exam review or justify grading to students who request it.
10. Deal with any appeals.