Abstract:
The Quality Assurance and Accreditation Council has proposed a common credit
and qualification framework for Sri Lankan University system in order to maintain
the consistency and comparability of university level qualifications, and to promote
student mobility by creating more flexible arrangements for students learning. To
minimize the drastic variations, all degree programmes were categorized in to six and
the framework reworded for each. This study only focuses on the framework developed for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences degree programmes. This study was
mainly based on generated data. The marks of students were generated from a
multivariate normal distribution to accommodate the correlation of the marks. Marks
of thousand students for fourty subjects were generated using Minitab 14 and then
they were converted into grade points. Final results, (class/pass) obtained under
Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) method and final average method were
then compared. The reason behind using hypothetical data instead of having
actual data was the inability of obtaining actual results data. The research findings
illustrate the inefficiency of the proposed new method as it always underestimates
performance of students, relative to the existing final average method of deciding
on final class/pass of student. The cut-off CGPA values were redefined so as to
maintain consistency with existing method of Final Average.
