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How will I be assessed? There are no exams on your programme; the work you produce is the work that will be assessed. There are two main classes of assessment: formative and summative. Summative assessments are marked and the mark counts towards the final module mark. Formative assessment is sometimes used to aid your learning. This is where you are set an assignment that receives either a mark or some feedback but does not count towards the final module mark. Design Projects Projects are a key form of assessment. For these you’ll need to show your design development work as well as your finished proposals and solutions. Development work typically includes sketchbooks, digital portfolios and sometimes prototypes, with annotations that demonstrate your research findings and your thought processes and decision-making as you develop, test and evaluate your ideas. Reports Sometimes you’ll be asked for project reports to show the design process in the context of client and user requirements and your understanding of the broader contexts of the assignment. Project critiques The critique (or ‘crit’) is an assessed presentation of your design work. This is your opportunity to positively present and explain your creative ideas and solutions to tutors and peers and receive valuable and immediate feedback. Essays and exercises Other forms of written assignment include research packs of short exercises (e.g. magazine articles, reviews, glossaries, analyses, blogs), essays and a longer contextual research project in the final year. Progress file You’ll also produce an illustrated progress file as part of the very important ‘personal and professional development planning’ you’ll undertake throughout your time on the programme. This will include self-reflection on your work in the context of your career aspirations. It also enables you to receive credit for the efforts you make to engage in extra-curricular activities such as volunteering, mentoring, organising trips, making personal study visits, entering competitions etc. Career-related material Your developing portfolio of project work will be key to securing career opportunities but you’ll also produce an assessed cv to support this in your second year and a personal web site in year three.
What do I need to know about handing in my work for assessment? Module Leaders will explain exactly what you need to hand in for each module. You’ll be asked for digital copies of all work in addition to printed work and/or prototypes where applicable. Samples of submitted work will be kept by your tutors. It is always important to keep back-up copies of your work. An Assessment Board meets at the end of the academic year to look at all your marks and decide whether you can progress, resit or repeat study. The Assessment Board will take into account whether you have attempted all assessments. It is much more likely to give you an opportunity to take resits or repeat study if you have attempted all assessments. It is less likely to give you this opportunity if there are some assessments which you did not attempt at the first opportunity. Key points Always submit something for every assessment. If you are unclear about this information or feel you are at risk of not being able to attempt any assessment you should contact a member of academic staff (module teacher, programme leader or personal tutor) for further advice before the hand-in date as there are a variety of ways in which support can be given. You must attempt all assessments at the first opportunity. You must do each assessment (essay, project, report, portfolio etc.) for every module. You should do this even if you don’t think you can fully complete them. You do not have an automatic right to resit or to repeat a year of study. Extensions In exceptional cases it may be possible to grant extensions to submission deadlines at the discretion of the Module Leader (up to one week) or the Assistant Dean (more than one week). Requests must be submitted to the Module Leader before the hand-in date. Forms are at the reception desk of the School Office on the 5th floor of Middlesbrough Tower. Please consult the Student Handbook for details: http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/stud/handbook/ Mitigating Circumstances If you believe that your academic work or assessment has been affected detrimentally by special circumstances, you may apply to the School’s Mitigating Circumstances Board. Application forms are available from the School Office. Completed forms must be returned to the School office, with supporting documentary evidence (e.g. Medical Certificates). Please consult the regulations on this in Student Handbook for further details: http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/stud/handbook/ Resubmission If you have submitted an in-course assessment by the defined hand-in deadline and are deemed by the Module Leader not to have passed the assessment (but it is considered that you have made a genuine attempt), you may be allowed to undertake further work on the assessment prior to the work being formally considered by a Module Assessment Board. Only one resubmission opportunity is possible for any in-course assessment component.
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