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Group Project Assessment

Group Project Assessment. Dr Tony Young Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences, Newcastle University. Overview. The programmes and our students Module assessment – essays and group research projects and presentations Project details Assessment criteria

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Group Project Assessment

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  1. Group Project Assessment Dr Tony Young Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences, Newcastle University

  2. Overview • The programmes and our students • Module assessment – essays and group research projects and presentations • Project details • Assessment criteria • Challenges, refinements • Discussion

  3. The Programmes • 6 Progs in MA Cross Cultural Communication (CCC) + • International Management • International Marketing • Media Studies • International Relations • Applied Linguistics • International Education

  4. Programme structure • 180 credits • 60 for research portfolio • 60 for specialism (IR, IMan…) • 60 for language and communication modules… Language and CCC + 2 more from choice of 5 including Professional Communication Skills(PCS) and Social Psychologyof Communication (SPC)

  5. The students • Majority MACCC+, also PhDs, IPhDs, MAALT, MA Media • On MACCC, 5- 60 (54 this year), 19 nationalities, UK, EU, worldwide • On PCS, SPC, around 40 students

  6. Assessment on PCS and SPC • 60% individual essay • 40% group research projects and presentations (today)

  7. Aims and Outcomes of Programmes and Modules • Global – ‘acquire skills directly relevant to careers’, ‘promote opportunities to meet and share ideas with colleagues from different sociocultural, educational and professional backgrounds’, ‘to stimulate people to work collaboratively’… • Specific flagged intended learning outcomes– teamwork, interpersonal skills, problem solving, team and individual work.. • 2003- little of the MACCC+ assessment lead naturally to many of the collaborative outcomes (mostly essays and exams)…

  8. The projects • See ‘Assignment 1’ doc for outline, procedure… • See ‘Peer Assessment’ doc for responsibilities, team working pointers… • Topics include ‘Communication in the workplace’, ‘Male and female communication’, ‘intercultural education…’ (thematic, linked to module content as a whole…)

  9. Procedure • First supervised ‘meet’ in class, time allowed at end thereafter, and a reading week beforehand to allow meetings. Also ‘Blackboard’ chatgroups, email... • Typically 4 weeks to prepare

  10. Project Assessment • See ‘Marksheet’

  11. Pitfalls, Challenges, Refinements.. • Workload – need to be very specific about task, grading, need to use models (?), workload cf other assignment (25% in 2004, now 40%) • Best to assign groups, topics. • Need to ‘police’ (but ‘self-policing’ has seemed ok since 2005) • Need to have a fall back position for some (illness, other problems can revert to 100% for final essay…) • Need to give ‘worth’ to the presentations – some essay topics can relate to content of student presentations, put them on ‘Blackboard’ with comments

  12. Feedback • From anonymous student appraisals, external examiners, ISR.. • Very good – hits the ‘missing’ ILOs, ‘water-tight’ grading criteria, rubric

  13. Your questions • Thank you for listening. • Contact tony.young@ncl.ac.uk

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