Assessment
All modules have both formative and summative assessment elements. Formative assessment allows tutors and students to recognise strengths and weaknesses in learning and to address those issues immediately. Summative assessments are graded and count towards the final module grade, and they are assessed against the specific module learning outcomes.
Typically 15 credit / one semester modules will have 1-2 assessment items; 30 credit / two semester modules will have 2-3 assessments.
Across each individual year and cumulatively across all three years the concept of continuous assessment and/or building up expertise in different assessment types applies. This includes expanding upon and enhancing previous artefacts culminating in a final year project.
Different types of employability skills are embedded in all modules including technical presentation, problem decomposition and design, build and test skills. A variety of assessment types (reports, portfolios, presentations, essays and a final year research or consultancy project) are designed to suit different learning styles
The typical formal summative assessment pattern for each year of the course is:
Year 1
- 1 x Essay
- 1 x Practical Assessment
- 2 x Report (1500 – 2000 word)
- 2 x Presentation
- 2 x Unseen Examination (1hr)
- 1 x Project
- 3 x Portfolio of work
Year 2
- 1 x Report (2000 word)
- 1 x Presentation
- 1 x Unseen Examination (1hr)
- 2 x Project
- 4 x Portfolio of work
- 1 x Case Study
Year 3
- 3 x Practical Assessment
- 4 x Report (1500 - 3000 words)
- 3 x Presentation
- 1 x Dissertation
- 1 x Portfolio of work