7HUM1114 (2024) Written evaluation
This assignment is worth 30% of the module grade.
Write a 750-1000 word research paper on the following prompt. Copy and paste the entire
dialogue with the AI as an appendix so the words won’t count towards your total.
“Evaluate the extent to which you find AI to be a suitable tool to help you carry out a
student language needs analysis. Then using an AI tool generate material for classroom
use at B1 level and evaluate its suitability”.
Make sure you use your own knowledge of your L1 as well as relevant academic sources
to support your evaluation.
Make sure you reference clearly your use of generative AI in the development of your
submitted work.
The AI prompts and responses in this section are to be placed in the appendix. This
section will not gain you marks but you clearly need to complete it as you won’t be able
to evaluate without it.
To create the student needs’ analysis, use your L1 as the basis of this task. Choose your
own prompts and ask your chosen AI to:
a) Provide you with 3 common grammatical errors,
3 common phonological errors, and
3 common spelling errors, of B1 level speakers of English who
speak your L1.
b) Provide you with suitable examples of each category
c) Provide you with effective strategies to overcome the challenges it offers.
d) Provide you with relevant and targeted exercises that can help a B1 level adult
student overcome some of these challenges (no less than 3, 1 from each
category in a).
Keep working with your prompts to force AI to create activities and exercises to a
specific context and group of students rather than accept generic tasks and random
sentences.
The responses to these questions (any others you may have) form the main evaluation
paper. This is the section where marks can be gained.
Questions to help you evaluate may include:
How accurate is AI in its descriptions? (your knowledge of your L1 and any relevant
reading, e.g. Swan’s Learner English, should help you here)
How much did you have to refine your prompts to improve its outputs?
To what extent is the needs analysis appropriate? Do you recognise the errors it
provides in your L1? What does literature suggest?
To what extent would you be able to use the exercises it provides in a class of B1 level
students in your chosen context? Would you need to do any further work to make the
exercises more suitable? If so, what would that work be?
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Learning Outcomes assessed in this module are:
Knowledge and Understanding
Successful students will typically...
Demonstrate a critical awareness of a range of English language teaching methodologies
and their application to a range of learning contexts.
Intellectual, Practical and Transferable Skills
Successful students will typically...
Adapt pedagogical approaches to a range of different teaching contexts.
Reflect critically and productively on their planning and teaching.
By submitting you are declaring that your submission is entirely your own work. If you have
cited from other sources or in any way included material that was not produced by yourself,
those sources must be acknowledged. Failure to acknowledge where work is not your own
may result in an allegation of academic misconduct. For more information, see 'Assessment
Offences and Academic Misconduct'Links to an external site. on Ask Herts, together with the
following guidance from Library SkillUP:
'Referencing: Why do it? Introduction'
'Academic Integrity'
'Why bother to acknowledge the work of others?'
Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools
In this module, you are expressly permitted to use AI tools in the creation of content for
your work and also to proofread your work. Alternatively, you can use a proofreader or non-
genAI proofreading service. It is not expected that you will use AI tools for planning your
teaching practice, however you may choose to do so if you wish.
Make sure you reference clearly your use of generative AI in the development of your
submitted work. If you do not reference any use of generative AI tools, this will constitute
academic misconduct. If in any doubt, you should ask your tutor for advice. Full information
on the University’s policy and guidance on generative AI use can be found here on Ask
HertsLinks to an external site..
Third-party assets
Please make sure that all the sources you use for your assignment are appropriately
acknowledged both in the main text and as a list of references, using APA (7th
edition) referencing.
"Cite Them Right" is a very useful book for referencing guidance. It is available as an e-book
and hard copy which can be borrowed from the de Havilland campus library (call no.:
808.027 PEA).
Ethics
Ethics approval is not required for this assignment.
Risk Assessment
A risk assessment is not required for this assignment.
How to Submit your work
Students should submit electronic files via this Canvas module (using the "Start Assignment"
button at the top of this page). Submit your file via Canvas (Word or PDF only).
Note: Where file sizes are larger than 1GB, it's recommended that students upload to their
OneDrive and submit a working link.
How your work will be assessed
Your work will be assessed against the assessment criteria in the rubric below.
GRADE DESCRIPTORS (Postgraduate reference scale to assist coarse-grained marking of
individual pieces of work)
Reference
Performance Description (Postgraduate) Grades (High,
Mid, Low)
Excellent / Outstanding Work (Distinction
95** 85
equivalent)
Very Good Work (Distinction
77 72
equivalent)
Good Work (Commendation equivalent) 68 65 62
Clear Pass (Pass equivalent) 58 55 52
Marginal Fail (LO’s not evidenced) 48 45 42
38 35 32
Clear Fail (LO’s not evidenced)
(F) (F) (F)
Clear Fail (LO’s not evidenced) 25 (F)
Little or Nothing of Merit (LO’s not
10 (F)
evidenced)
NOTE: Tutors will refer to SCHOOL-LEVEL GRADING CRITERIA when assessing your work
and determining an appropriate mark to award. You can see the School-Level
Postgraduate Grading Criteria here.
[ ** Reference Grades above 90 should be awarded for work of truly exceptional quality and
used very sparingly ]
Engagement by the student in all aspects of Teaching and Learning and Assessment are
essential to ensure successful completion of the module, students with an OVERALL Module
Grade below 50% will be offered the opportunity of a referral in the same academic year.
All students are advised to read the School’s STUDENT/PROGRAMMES HANDBOOK. The
handbook provides information concerning many aspects of study, including how to submit
your coursework, how your work will be marked, late work, Exceptional Circumstances, key
contacts for support, etc.. The Handbook is available on the Creative Arts Toolkit here.
If you are unable to submit:
Where there are clear and provable reasons for a student being unable to meet an
assessment deadline, module tutors are able to approve a short-term Coursework
Extension. This gives permission to hand in an assessment after the published deadline
without either incurring a penalty or waiting to re-take an alternative assessment as a
referred or deferred student. Requests for extensions can be made at any time up to the
coursework deadline. The maximum number of days for a short-term extension is seven (7)
calendar days and ten (10) calendar days for students with a Study Needs Agreement (SNA).
If a student needs more time than this, they should submit an application for deferred
assessment through Exceptional Circumstances. You can find the short-term coursework
extension form on the Creative Arts Toolkit here.
Applications for Exceptional Circumstances must be submitted no more than fifteen (15)
working days after the assessment submission date and at least five (5) working days before
the Board of Examiners. Please read the guidance on Ask Herts (Exceptional Circumstances)
for further information.
Any student who submits work for assessment deems themselves to be sufficiently fit and
well to undertake that assessment and may not later claim to have exceptional
circumstances in respect of the assessment. Full details of the University's 'Fit to Sit' policy
can be found here.
Penalties for late submission:
(i) For first-sitting or deferred (DEFC) coursework, for each day (or working day for hard
copy submission only) up to five days after the published deadline, coursework submitted
late (including deferred coursework, but with the exception of referred coursework), will
have the numeric grade reduced by 10 grade points until or unless the numeric grade
reaches 50.
(ii) Referred coursework submitted after the published deadline shall be awarded a grade
of zero unless a short-term extension has been granted.
Referrals
For students who are referred (FREFC) due to failure on first-sitting of one or more elements
of assessment, only the assessment elements which have been failed and then passed at
referral will be capped to 50.
Re-enrolment
Following re-enrolment (FREN) on any module, the grades awarded will be those actually
achieved in the assessment. Grades will not be capped except where there are penalties for
other circumstances (such as late submission). No previously passed assessment elements
can be carried forward for the same module from a previous academic year.
