Friday, 10 July 2015

DD309 : Doing economics: people, markets and policy - Feedback of sorts

Had I looked harder yesterday, rather than being blinded by the result, I would have seen a link to view your performance in the examinable component.

It shows the assessment criteria and how each section could be rated.


Assessment criteria
Scale: Excellent, Good, Clear Pass, Bare Pass, Bare Fail, Fail

Criteria :
i. Research question: clarity and relevance to the module
ii. Literature review and economic theory: clarity and relevance to the module
iii. Selection/collection of data/evidence: effectiveness in addressing the question
iv. Analysis & research method: effectiveness in integrating theory, data & evidence
v. Aptness of conclusions in drawing threads of argument together
vi. Evidence of independent thought and initiative
vii. Standard of presentation and referencing


I was glad to see that I was marked either Excellent or Good in the above criteria, and especially that for 'evidence of independent thought' it was Excellent, given that I had taken a far from easy course in this project, and pressed on in this direction against the advice from my tutor to simplify the project.

The other information on the site was the performance of all students in the EMA, which was a pretty standard bell curve sort of distribution.

It would be nice to get some more detailed feedback though - but I'm not sure if this is available.

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