Assignment Brief Academic Year 2022-23

Module code FY027: Preparing for Success at Module leader: Cadmel Misiani
and title: University: Self Development and
Responsibility

Assignment CW1: Portfolio Assessment 60%

No. and type: weighting:

Submission 09/06/2023 by 2 pm on Turnitin Target feedback 3 weeks after submission

time and date: time and date: deadline

Assignment task

1. Using materials generated by the project classes and through your independent study, populate a
portfolio of evidence of your development of social and ethical awareness and responsibility during
the module.

2. Write a 500-word summary to answer the question:

 How and why have the project workshop activities developed your social and ethical awareness
and responsibility?

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

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

3: Identify own academic and professional development needs and create an action plan.

4: Demonstrate an awareness of the global context of higher education and employment.

Referencing and presentational requirements

Please reference your work using the Harvard style or the style specified by the subject lecturer where
there is a specific professional requirement to use an alternative to Harvard. For most students this will be
the Harvard style. The styles are defined in Cite Them Right Online (http://www.citethemrightonline.com).

Written work submitted as part of this assignment should be presented according to the following:

 The work should be 1.5 line spaced.

Internal approval: Name, Date

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  Font must be Arial 12.
 Follow the reference guidelines.

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.

Submission details

Written work for this assignment should be submitted electronically using the relevant submission point in
the Upload My Assignment section on LSST Connect.

Academic integrity

Academic integrity means taking responsibility for your own work.

When you submit an assignment, you are effectively 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.bucks.ac.uk/current-
students/registry-helpdesk-and-academic-advice/academic-integrity-and-misconduct
You are also 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 their assessed work, whatever the format.
Confidentiality issues will vary from subject to subject and you are encouraged to seek advice from your
course team if you are unclear about requirements in your context. For further information and guidance,
please see the University website: https://www.bucks.ac.uk/academic-confidentiality

The next section outlines the assessment criteria for this assessment.

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 Assessment Criteria – for the written report Academic Year 2022-23

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 (Portfolio) 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 predictable confident ability to to operate in predictable ability to operate in
This should include and defined contexts operate in predictable operate in predictable and defined contexts predictable and defined operate in predictable
evidence of: and use given and defined contexts and defined contexts operate in predictable 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, occasionally
 Technical skills tasks are attempted but tasks are completed complex, practical occasionally complex, practical complex, practical complex, practical
 Presentation of research inaccurate and error with partial accuracy tasks complex, practical tasks autonomously tasks autonomously tasks autonomously
findings strewn and independence  Use of given technical tasks accurately with and with accuracy and and with a high and with an
 Use of given technical  Use of given technical and creative skills is a degree of coordination in degree of accuracy, exceptional degree
and creative skills is not and creative skills is demonstrated autonomy in predictable, defined coordination and of accuracy,
demonstrated in most demonstrated in some  Within a narrowly predictable, defined contexts proficiency in coordination and
or all key areas of the key areas defined context, contexts  Consistently use in a predictable, defined proficiency in
 Presentation of findings  Presentation of present findings in  Consistently use a highly developed way contexts predictable, defined
is not clear or effective. findings is often not clear and appropriate given range of a given range of  Consistently use in a contexts
clear or effective. formats technical and technical and creative highly developed way  Consistently use in a
creative skills skills the full range of given highly developed and
 Within a narrowly,  Within a narrowly technical and creative sophisticated way
defined context defined context, skills the full range of
consistently present consistently present  Within a narrowly given technical and
findings in clear and findings in detailed, defined context, creative skills
appropriate formats clear and appropriate consistently present  Within a narrowly
formats findings perceptively, defined context,
convincingly and consistently present
appropriately and in a findings perceptively,
wide range of authoritatively and
appropriate formats appropriately and in
a wide range of
appropriate formats

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Assessment Criteria – for the written report Academic Year 2022-23

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 criticality An insufficient or no A limited ability to use A sufficient ability to use A sound ability to use A sophisticated ability to A highly accomplished An exceptional ability to
35% ability to use ideas and ideas and information to ideas and information to ideas and information 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 argument demonstration of an An insufficient demonstration of an of an ability to describe demonstration of an demonstration of an
 Analytical reflection ability to describe and demonstration of an ability to describe and and comment upon ability to describe and ability to describe and
 Organisation of ideas comment upon aspects ability to describe and comment upon aspects aspects of pre-defined comment upon aspects comment upon aspects
and evidence of pre-defined comment upon aspects of pre-defined frameworks and criteria of pre-defined of pre-defined
frameworks and criteria of pre-defined frameworks and criteria frameworks and criteria frameworks and criteria
frameworks and criteria

Written communication An insufficient or no A limited ability to use A sufficient ability to use A consistent and A highly proficient ability Work demonstrates a Work demonstrates an
30% ability to use digital digital literacy and digital literacy and confident ability to use to use digital literacy and highly accomplished exceptional ability to use
literacy and written written communication written communication digital literacy and written communication ability to use digital digital literacy and
This should include communication skills, skills, applicable to skills, applicable to written communication skills, applicable to literacy and written written communication
evidence of: applicable to academic academic and academic and skills, applicable to academic and communication skills, skills, applicable to
 Accurate spelling, and professional professional contexts professional contexts academic and professional contexts applicable to academic academic and
punctuation and contexts professional contexts and professional professional contexts
grammar contexts
 Language use
appropriate to purpose
and context
Paragraph structure