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The assessment is criterion-referenced (See an example of criteria used in Discourse Analysis course in Appendix 12_DA Assignment). Basically, the assessment method used in each course is the assignment which focuses on research. However, there are also other assessment methods used in the PhD courses; e.g. students’ presentation of the concept, students’ progress of their research for dissertation courses. The criteria are presented to the students so they know what they are expected. One-on-one feedback is also provided to the student in order to give feedback in detail. The students can redo the assignment if they fail (i.e.getting the grade lower than a B) but the result of the rewritten assignment will not be higher than a B. Because the assessment process is conducted to evaluate if the students understand the concept and are able to apply it to do research, it covers the objectives of the programme as a whole. The appealing procedure is not explicit. It is known that the students are able to appeal if they are not satisfied with their grade. For formative assessment which is conducted ongoingly, the feedback will be given right away. If it is a summative assessment given at the end of the course, the students will get feedback when the next term starts. For thesis courses, feedback procedure will be agreed between the supervisor and the supervisee. The normal practice is that it takes a week to give feedback if the written work submitted is not too long. But if it is the whole chapter, it may take up to 10 days to give feedback. The procedure of research supervision is the agreement between the supervisors and the supervisees.