Guidelines on grading

• The individual lecturers are responsible for the examination. In particular, they answer for the correctness of content and the methodological appropriateness of examination tasks, scoring and grading.
• Examinations are instruments which measure the achievement of learning objectives or assess the potential to achieve them in the future.
• Examinations adhere to the principles of validity, fairness, transparency, educational purpose and balance described below.
• Design, implementation, scoring and grading of examinations are based upon scientifically grounded methods and standards which are feasible in practice.

The formal aspects of performance assessments are described on the websites Guidelines for Lecturers. Their legal foundation is the external pageETH Zurich Ordinance on performance assessments (in German) (PDF, 134call_made and its implementation stipulations.