Transcript A student's perspective (PowerPoint)

First year assessment
Student’s Perspective
My Literature Review
 Effort
– 2 months around experiments
– 1 week out of the lab
 Content
– Literature review/Introduction (5000 words)
– Aims (50 words)
– Experiment 1 and 2 (1000 words each)
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Short introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
– Strengths and weaknesses (300 words)
– Future work (300 words)
– References (150)
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Submitting the report
– Documents
• Literature review
• Student report
• Self-assessment
• Training courses
attended
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The Assessment Meeting
 Before the meeting
– Arrange time and place
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Assessors office
– Bound copy of report to assessors a week before
 During the meeting
– Informal
– No presentation
– Questions
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General interest
Rationale behind experiments
Help and advice
Nothing about the addition information I submitted or lab books
– Length
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1 hour
– Outcome
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Progressed
Other students’ view
Joanne
Really good to know how well I’d progressed.
Focused me on what I needed to do in the 2nd year.
Good to get an outsiders opinion to introduce new ideas that even your supervisor hasn’t come up with!
Cyril
Report took me three months to write and the meeting lasted 2 hours
Gave me an outsider's perspective on my project.
Extremely helpful.
Llwyd
Assessors were friendly
Gave me ideas that I had not considered.
Helped to structure my experiments throughout the second year.
Steve
Report took me a week or so to write.
Meeting lasted 1.5 hours.
Very useful and constructive.
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Thanks
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