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' assessments, which are graded and count towards the overall module grade.
Assessment methods include presentations, reports, posters, essays, a long study, practice-based learning portfolios, observations of children's learning, appreciative inquiry and practice-based inquiry and professional reflective journal. Assessment is directly related to current practice expectations and is integrated within all of the course's teaching.
Preparation for summative assessment is structured into teaching methods through the formative processes of active induction, guided exploration, self-organising learner and self-organised learner.
A typical formal summative assessment pattern for each year of the course is:
- Year 1 (Full Time)
4 written assignments
Practice Portfolio
- Year 1 (Part time)
3 written assignments
Practice Portfolio (to be handed in during second year)
- Year 2 (Full Time)
3 written assignments
1 Practice based enquiry
Practice Portfolio
- Year 2 (Part Time)
3 written assignments
- Year 3 (Part Time)
1 written assignment
I Practice based enquiry
Practice Portfolio
You have an opportunity throughout each module to submit formative work and will receive formative, constructive feedback and feed forward from tutors (and peers where appropriate) that will support your preparation for summative assessment.