Assignment Brief Academic Year 2023-

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Assignment CW2: Portfolio and Reflective Module Leader:

Gayathri Senanayake
No. and type: Summary

Module code FY026 Preparing for Success at Assessment

and title: University: Knowledge and weighting: 60%
Creativity

Submission Target feedback Friday 09 September 2024 at

Friday 16 Aug 2024 at 2.00 pm.
time and date: time and date: 6.00 pm

Assignment task

1. Using materials generated by the project classes and through your independent study, populate a
portfolio of evidence (10-12) of your learning and development during the module.
2. Write a 500-word reflective summary to explain how and why these project materials have
supported the development of your employability and how this will be useful to you in future, by
referring to specific graduate attributes.

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your
achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO 1: Demonstrate effective communication skills, applicable to academic and professional contexts.

LO 2: Reflect on their individual performance, behaviour and experience in education and/or employment.

LO 3: Locate and evaluate resources for academic and employment-related purposes

LO 4: Think critically and creatively about graduate employment opportunities in the future

Practicalities: Referencing, presenting and submitting your work

Please see your programme handbook for information on the standard referencing style, presentational
requirements and process for submitting your work.
1. Follow the referencing guidelines
 The standard referencing style for this university is Harvard and that is the system we use for

Internal approval: name, date

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 FY026. If your programme handbook indicates a different system you may use either the one in
the handbook or Harvard for this summary. For more information about referencing use
www.citethemrightonline.com
 Sources cited in the portfolio and documents uploaded to the artefacts should be referenced
appropriately.
 It is not anticipated that secondary sources will be necessary for the 500-word summary.
However, any sources that are used should be referenced appropriately.
2. Follow presentation guidelines
Written work submitted as part of this assignment should be presented according to the following:
 The essay should be 1.5 line spaced

 Font must be Arial 12

 Follow the reference guidelines

 The word count for the 500-word summary is 500 words, + or – 10%. This means that the final
word count must be within the range 450-550 words.
 The individual artefacts and project materials have no word count associated with them, but it is
anticipated that these should add up to a minimum of 1500 words of original content.
3. Follow submission guidelines
The 500-word summary:
Written work for this assignment should be submitted through the appropriate Turnitin
submission point through Blackboard.
Written work for this assignment should be saved and submitted as a Word document
(.docx) or as a .pdf file. If other file formats are used, these may not be compatible with
Turnitin and the work cannot be marked.
The portfolio:
Submission details will depend upon the type of output produced for the portfolio

Confidentiality

You are expected to take responsibility for maintaining and managing confidentiality issues in your work.
You should maintain and respect confidentiality in relation to the protection of personal, technical and/or
commercial information of a sensitive nature in your assessed work, whatever the format.
For further information and guidance, please see the relevant section in your programme handbook.

Academic integrity

Academic integrity means taking responsibility for your own work.

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When you submit an assignment, you are making a declaration that it is your own
work and that you have acknowledged the contribution of others and their ideas in its
development (for example, by referencing them appropriately).
For further information and guidance, please see the University website: https://www.bnu.ac.uk/current-
students/registry-helpdesk-and-academic-advice/academic-integrity-and-misconduct
For guidance regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), please see the University website:
https://www.bucks.ac.uk/current-students/registry-helpdesk-and-academic-advice/artificial-intelligence-
guidance-students

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Assessment Criteria Academic Year 2023-24

0-34 (F) – 35-39 E – 40-49 (D) 50-59 (C) 60-69 (B) 70-79 (A) 80-100 (A+)
Fail Marginal fail Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass
Not successful Below required Satisfactory Good Very Good Excellent Outstanding
standard
Application and The work demonstrates The work demonstrates The work demonstrates The work demonstrates The work demonstrates The work demonstrates The work demonstrates
Practice 35% insufficient or no ability a limited ability to a sufficient ability to use a consistent and a highly proficient ability a highly accomplished an exceptional ability to
to operate in confident ability to to operate in ability to operate in
This should include predictable and defined operate in predictable operate in predictable predictable and defined predictable and defined operate in predictable
evidence of: contexts and use given and defined contexts and defined contexts operate in predictable contexts and use given contexts and use given and defined contexts
techniques to undertake and use given and use given and defined contexts techniques to undertake techniques to undertake and use given
 Accuracy, techniques to undertake techniques to undertake and use given techniques to undertake
coordination and well-defined roles and well-defined roles and well-defined roles and
performance tasks, and well-defined roles and well-defined roles and techniques to undertake performance tasks, and performance tasks, and well-defined roles and
proficiency in the performance tasks, and performance tasks, and well-defined roles and performance tasks, and
completion of so: so: so:
so: so: performance tasks, and so:
practical tasks and  Well-defined,  Well-defined,  Complete well- so:  Complete well-  Complete well-  Complete well-
processes occasionally complex, occasionally complex, defined, occasionally  Complete defined, defined, occasionally defined, occasionally defined,
 Technical skills tasks are attempted tasks are completed complex, practical occasionally complex, practical complex, practical occasionally
 Presentation of but inaccurate and with partial accuracy tasks complex, practical tasks autonomously tasks autonomously complex, practical
research findings error strewn and independence  Use of given tasks accurately and with accuracy and with a high tasks autonomously
 Use of given technical  Use of given technical technical and with a degree of and coordination in degree of accuracy, and with an
and creative skills is and creative skills is creative skills is autonomy in predictable, defined coordination and exceptional degree
not demonstrated in demonstrated in demonstrated predictable, defined contexts proficiency in of accuracy,
most or all key areas some of the key  Within a narrowly contexts  Consistently use in a predictable, defined coordination and
 Presentation of areas defined context,  Consistently use a highly developed way contexts proficiency in
findings is not clear or  Presentation of present findings in given range of a given range of  Consistently use in a predictable, defined
effective. findings is often not clear and appropriate technical and technical and creative highly developed contexts
clear or effective. formats creative skills skills way the full range of  Consistently use in
 Within a narrowly,  Within a narrowly given technical and a highly developed
defined context defined context, creative skills and sophisticated
consistently present consistently present  Within a narrowly way the full range of
findings in clear and findings in detailed, defined context, given technical and
appropriate formats clear and appropriate consistently present creative skills
formats findings perceptively,  Within a narrowly
convincingly and defined context,
appropriately and in consistently present
a wide range of findings
appropriate formats perceptively,
authoritatively and
appropriately and in
a wide range of
appropriate formats

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Assessment Criteria Academic Year 2023-24

0-34 (F) – 35-39 E – 40-49 (D) 50-59 (C) 60-69 (B) 70-79 (A) 80-100 (A+)
Fail Marginal fail Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass
Not successful Below required Satisfactory Good Very Good Excellent Outstanding
standard
Analysis and An insufficient or no A limited ability to use A sufficient ability to use A sound ability to use A sophisticated ability A highly accomplished An exceptional ability to
criticality 40% ability to use ideas and ideas and information to ideas and information to ideas and information to to use ideas and ability to use ideas and use ideas and
information to devise devise a devise and sustain devise and sustain information to devise information to devise information to devise
This should include and sustain arguments arguments arguments and sustain arguments and sustain arguments and sustain arguments
evidence of: and sustain arguments
Little or no A sufficient A sound demonstration A sophisticated An insufficient
 Logic and demonstration of an An insufficient demonstration of an of an ability to describe demonstration of an demonstration of an
argument ability to describe and demonstration of an ability to describe and and comment upon ability to describe and ability to describe and
 Analytical reflection comment upon aspects ability to describe and comment upon aspects aspects of pre-defined comment upon aspects comment upon aspects
 Organisation of of pre-defined comment upon aspects of pre-defined frameworks and criteria of pre-defined of pre-defined
ideas and evidence frameworks and criteria of pre-defined frameworks and criteria frameworks and criteria frameworks and criteria
frameworks and criteria

Transferable skills An insufficient or no A limited ability to use A sufficient ability to use A consistent and A highly proficient Work demonstrates a Work demonstrates an
(written ability to use digital digital literacy and digital literacy and confident ability to use ability to use digital highly accomplished exceptional ability to
communication) 25% literacy and written written communication written communication digital literacy and literacy and written ability to use digital use digital literacy and
communication skills, skills, applicable to skills, applicable to written communication communication skills, literacy and written written communication
This should include applicable to academic academic and academic and skills, applicable to applicable to academic communication skills, skills, applicable to
evidence of: and professional professional contexts professional contexts academic and and professional applicable to academic academic and
 Accurate spelling, contexts professional contexts contexts and professional professional contexts
punctuation and contexts
grammar
 Language use
appropriate to
purpose and context
 Paragraph structure