I remember being a student in the one-year Drama Course at Melbourne University in 1976. The grades back then were pass / fail. Students who desired honors grades kept away. I believe that so many thoughts and emotions are triggered that assessors (staff? other students? external assessors?) should award only an arbitrary grade (pass if you turn up often, fail if you do not) because there is no way of recognising inner tumults. There was no written exam nor assessment of a journal. We were bodies learning how to express ideas / desires in spaces. I'm only confident in saying too much should be going on.     

at the VCA we have a tick box assessment form. We have I think 7 categories ranging from 'Poor' performance to 'Outstanding' performance in relation to different requirement e.g. 'creating and sustaining an imaginary world', 'embodying and connecting to shakespearean text' 

And the boxes correspond I think to numeric value but not explicitly. More like, outstanding= 85-100% (high distinction) etc

Thank you for your answers!!!

Try Geof Hill's papers here on Researchgate:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Geof_Hill

thank you so much!!!