Module Assessment

Assessment Criteria

Your work will be graded as PASS, REFER or FAIL at final submission stage.  All submissions are marked against the learning outcomes for each module.

Fail grades are given after two referrals on each module. A piece of work may also be given a Refer for non-submission without an agreed extension or extenuating circumstances. 

Writing Your Assignments

Firstly, it is a qualification that draws heavily on your experience. Your work as a teacher and experience as a learner constitute a significant part of the programme alongside the educational literature. We ask that you create a dialogue between that experience and the literature.

Secondly, we ask that you re-visit and reflect critically upon what happens in your teaching through the testing of your assumptions and your approach through selected parts of the literature. In this sense, the programme asks you to apply your knowledge and critical abilities in the workplace and to reflect upon these processes in your assignments. To do this, you should situate yourself in processes/ situations you are reflecting upon, rather than ‘looking in’ from the outside.

Thirdly, we expect a high degree of adherence to academic conventions as they pertain to the study of education with a critical stance being adopted to both the research evidence and your own practice.

Finally, we ask you to advance your own practice as a teacher having gained new insights from the programme – in a process of critical and reflective engagement. We say more about the assignment task and assignment prompts documents, however, we hope you regard the programme as a process with which to engage rather than as a qualification to be acquired.