Assessment
The course provides opportunities to test understanding and learning informally through the completion of practice or ‘formative’ assignments. Each module has one or more formal or ‘summative’ assessment which is graded and counts towards the overall module grade.
Assessment methods will include a range of formative assessment methods in the build up to summative assessments to provide on-going feedback and allow lecturers to adjust teaching methods to help students improve their learning. Some examples of formative assessment will be: Impromptu quizzes or anonymous voting, short comparative assessments to see how students are performing against their peers, One-minute papers on a specific subject matter, Lesson exit tickets to summarise what students have learnt, and silent classroom polls.
The precise assessment requirements for an individual student in an academic year will vary according to the mandatory modules taken. A typical formal summative assessment pattern for each year of the course is:
Year 1 (Level 4)
- 1 x Case study report
- 4 x Written essay/report
- 3 x Individual or group presentations
- 1 x Practical
- 1 x Coaching programme
- 2 x Portfolio
- 1 x Reflective journal
Year 2 (Level 5)
- 1 x Practical
- 4 x Individual or group presentations
- 3 x Written essay/report
- 1 x Training programme
- 1 x Skills profile
- 2 x Portfolio