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PG DIP ULT
Assessment engagement with discipline-specific educational
theory and literature as well as disciplinary context.
Formative Assessment and The award of PG Diploma is unclassified with students
Feedback achieving a ‘commended’ or ‘not yet commended’
mark based on a mark over or under the 50%
In the PG Diploma students get informal formative pass mark respectively. Although the Diploma is
feedback on their participation in the taught week unclassified the essays and library project are given
activities and tutors provide detailed formative a percentage mark and this is used to help determine
feedback on drafts of Assignment One, Assignment the final classification for those that continue to the
Two and the Library Project. Students can guide Master’s (which is a classified qualification). The
tutors as to which aspects specifically they would like assignments and the library project will be marked
feedback on. Feedback will normally be given within against the marking criteria associated with each
two weeks of submission. Students will also receive piece of work, already outlined. Please refer to the
formal feedback on their summative work. This will assessment criteria closely whilst planning and
identify both strengths and areas for improvement writing your assignments.
and should be used to inform subsequent work. There
will also be the opportunity to receive feedback from Submission Deadlines and
peers during the group seminars. Penalties
Summative Examination and The three assignments should be submitted
Submission electronically using Blackboard Learn. The deadlines
for submission are shown in the table overleaf.
In the PG Diploma summative examination is by Blackboard Learn will not permit submission after
submission of two assignment essays, one after these dates and times.
each of the taught weeks. The first assesses critical
reading of educational literature, while the second N.B. The Assignment Two draft and Library Project
assesses critical writing in an educational style. The draft should be emailed to k.ippolito@imperial.ac.uk
assignment essays will be completed in order, the and s.beasley@imperial.ac.uk, not submitted via
critical reading task first, before the critical writing Blackboard Learn.
task, and both of these before the Library Project.
The major piece of summative assessment for the
PG Diploma is the Library Project. This individually
negotiated piece of work is supported by an
individual tutor and summative examination is by
submission of a report of 4500-7700 words.
In order to add the optional faculty identifier
we would expect submissions to show critical
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