13 - Greece - Student assessment
Students’ performance is evaluated by the Teaching Faculty of Higher Education Institutes. Please
refer to the respective subdivisions for more information per sector.
Student Assessment in Higher Technological Education
The students’ performance in Technological Education Institutes (TEI) is evaluated every semester in
various ways according to the nature of the subject.
Thus, in theoretical courses, examinations or tests may be held, or assignments given out, throughout
a semester. At the end of every semester, final examinations are held which usually account for about
60% of the final mark in the course while the progress mark accounts for 40%.
For laboratory, tutorial, or clinical courses, the student’s performance is evaluated each week while
supplementary laboratory exercises may be held during the last week, following decision of the
Courses Sector, intended for those students who have not attended the course successfully or were
absent.
As regards the graduation project, which is a prerequisite for the acquisition of a degree from a TEI, it
is assessed first by the supervising faculty member and is then presented in public before a threemember
committee of faculty members which awards the final mark.
Students complete their studies and receive their degree when they have passed the number of
courses provided in the Curriculum and have accumulated the required number of credits. For the degree’s
mark to be calculated, the marks received on all courses required for the degree are taken into account
and the general mark is the average of the above marks.
Student Assessment in Higher University Education
In every semester course, the student’s mark is awarded by the faculty member teaching the course,
who is obliged at his or her discretion to hold written and/or oral examinations at the end of each
semester and/or to rely on the quantity or quality performance of the student during the (compulsory or
optional) attendance of lectures and seminars; on the implementation of laboratory or clinical exercises
and, in general, tutorials; and on the elaboration of assignments or theses throughout the semester.
For students to pass a course, whether compulsory or optional, they must receive a pass mark of five
This mark results either solely from the mark received on the written
and/or oral exams at the end of each semester or from a combination of the mark received on
examinations and the mark resulting from the participation of students in various educational activities
(laboratory exercises, tutorials, writing of assignments, etc). In certain departments, the mark ascribed
to the thesis may be multiplied by a specific factor.
Students complete their studies and receive their degree when they have passed the number of
courses provided in the Curriculum and have accumulated the required number of credits. The degree’s mark
is calculated according to a formula pursuant to which the said mark is equal to the sum of the
products of each course’s academic credits multiplied by the mark obtained by the student in each
course, this being divided by the total number of the academic credits required for the award of a
degree, without taking into account practice or optional courses.
Student Assessment in Postgraduate Study Programmes
As regards first-level postgraduate studies leading to the granting of a Postgraduate Specialisation
Degree (Metaptychiako Diploma Eidikefsis - ΜΔΕ/MDE), the progress and promotion of postgraduate
students rely on their passing the written and/or oral examinations in the courses specified by the
Programme in question, in conjunction with the participation of the postgraduate students in the overall
research, writing and educational activities defined by the programme and the respective internal
regulation.
The way in which the performance and the overall work of postgraduate students are evaluated, the
certification of the successful completion of their studies, the mark given to the ΜΔΕ/MDE and the way
this is deduced are specified in the Regulation of Postgraduate Studies (ΚΜΣ/KMS) of the Programme
of Postgraduate Studies (ΠΜΣ/PMS), which also determines any other detail regarding the
organisation of postgraduate studies.
As regards second-level postgraduate studies leading to the granting of a doctoral degree (Didaktoriki
Diatrivi - ΔΔ/DD), each doctoral candidate is guided by a three-member advisory committee
(comprising two members and the main supervisor), which is appointed by the Special General
Assembly of the Department. This committee is responsible for guiding and supervising the doctoral
candidate and for certifying the successful completion of the educational, research and, in general,
scientific work in compliance with the ΚΜΣ/KMS of the ΠΜΣ/PMS.
Specific details about how a doctoral thesis is written and judged are set forth in the internal regulation
of the respective ΠΜΣ/PMS or the Department concerned.
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Date: 2009
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