Assessment brief There are three parts to this assignment

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Assessment brief There are three parts to this assignment. Description Marks Part A: Reflective CPD (continuous professional development) – 20% (suggested word limit for this section is 1000 words) Complete a detailed personal development plan for your future dissertation. Your submission should include a self-reflection on your past achievements, a personal SWOT analysis of your current experience and an outline of your future personal 20 development plan. Your personal development plan should include detailed steps that you need to put in place to achieve your final project/ dissertation goals. Part B: Research Log – 20% (suggested number of log entries for this section is up to 20 log entries; no word limit for each log) Maintain a log of your research development process. You should note down your learning experiences to the key activities of this module and/ or your personal 20 development plan. It is advised to use the ePortfolio tool – PebblePad to keep your log. Part three: Project proposal – 60% (suggested word limit for this section is 3000 words) Produce a proposal for your final project/dissertation with the following key components. 3.1. • • • • • • 3.2. • • • Introduction (500 – 650 words) What you intend to do, i.e. a brief summary of what activities will be undertaken in the project Why you intend to do it, i.e. why the project is worthwhile and relevant to the student and to computing The aim summarises what the project should achieve overall. Research Scope and objectives The SMART objectives, with outline of deliverables and measurement criteria for quality Research Questions Literature Review (850 – 1000 words) Computing context and previous research areas of interest and possible impact A diagram outlining the relevant body of knowledge Identification and Reviews of relevant authors and journals Page 1 of 7 60 3.3. • • • 3.4. • Research Methodology and Planning (850 – 1000 words) How you will proceed, i.e. what research method/design you will use in order to achieve the aim and each objective. The project plans (Gantt and Monitoring and Control Table) and task lists should link back to the objectives and highlight, deliverables, resources, skills, time, millstones, methods to be used, costs of time and resources. Risk assessment and management Conclusions (500 – 650 words) Ethics, Legal, Social, Security and Professional Consideration: a discussion which explores and defines all of the ethical, legal, social and professional issues associated with your project, including how you will consider security issues. If you think an area of this section is not applicable to your project, you should justify why this is the case. Appendix: Draft Ethical Online Application References • These should be primarily used to support your background section and include the latest relevant research in your chosen topic area. All references in the reference list must also appear within the body of the report. There is no ideal number of references recommended but a guide might be no less than 10 – 15 sources should be used. Total 100 Page 2 of 7 Marking Rubrics: Percentage range General Descriptors Assessment criteria Commendation (60 - 69) Knowledge and understanding is comprehensive & exceptional both as to breadth and depth. Everything presented in a coherent way. Sound Knowledge is understanding very limited of topic. Knowledge is and/or Reasoning Knowledge base limited and/or superficial; and argument is up-to-date superficial; frequently are generally and relevant, frequently inarticulate relevant but but also may be inarticulate and/or not broad or deep. and/or irrelevant necessarily irrelevant. with extensive. omissions. Part A: Reflective CPD Excellent personal analysis with inPersonal assessment and depth reflection analysis on past experiences, 10 marks integrated into a coherent rationale for your final project success. Applies evidences such as CV, skill audit or psychometric results to support the personal strengths and weakness. Provide a good personal analysis including strengths and weaknesses with an extensive list of evidences such as CV, skill audit or psychometric results. Identify possible opportunities and threats for a detailed personal development plan Shows limited knowledge of Evaluates possible personal opportunities with development in their skills, according to interests, values established and personality. research development Shows in-depth framework. knowledge of personal There is an development in opportunity to according to further discuss established this part in depth research or integrate the development discussion in a framework and more coherent addresses way. potential threats. Page 3 of 7 Credit (50 - 59) Satisfactory amount of personal analysis provided. Fail (30 - 49) Fail Distinction (70 - 100) The personal analysis is incomplete, partially inappropriate and/or unclear. No evidence nor deep reflection May be major for the analysis. omissions or lack of clarity. May be some minor omissions or lack of clarity. (0-29) The personal analysis is missing or major omission or completely irrelevant. Part A: Reflective CPD Personal development plan 10 marks Clear goals are set by the student for his research development plan. Fully integrates a well-thought personal research development plan with sensible timeline, necessary skills and relevant resources and experiences available to support achieving project/ dissertation success based on the personal analysis done in previous part. Provides detailed information on when/ how resources and experiences will develop specific skills and knowledge in research development. Very good personal research development plan achieving project/ dissertation goals. Good information on when/ how resources and experiences will develop specific skills and knowledge in research development. Some risk assessment for the personal research development plan provided. There is an opportunity to further discuss this part in depth or integrate the discussion in a more coherent way. Provides details of risk assessment for the personal research development plan. Page 4 of 7 Presents a personal research development plan with satisfactory information on when/ how resources and experiences will develop specific skills and knowledge in research development. Some risk assessment for the personal research development plan provided. May be some minor omissions or lack of clarity. The personal development plan is incomplete, partially inappropriate and/or unclear. May be major omissions or lack of clarity The personal development plan is missing or major omission or completely irrelevant. Part B: Research Log 20 marks Part C: Research Proposal Introduction & Literature Review 20 marks Outstanding reflective log with 18 entries at least. The logs describe the student’s research development process clearly which are in related to the student’s final project/ dissertation with in-depth reflection. The logs provide well thought out coverage of all aspects of this module/ research development process to an exceptionally high standard. Very good reflective logs with 15 entries at least. The logs describe the student’s research development process clearly which are in related to the student’s final project/ dissertation with in-depth reflection. The logs cover all aspects of this module/ research development process as required to a high standard. Satisfactory research logs with 10 entries at least. Most logs are descriptive but still relevant to student’s final project/ dissertation. All of which show satisfactory understanding of what was required. Unsatisfactory research log with generic contents. May provide less than 10 logs and/ or tended to be irrelevant of achievement.