First year assessment Student’s Perspective

Page  2  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) Short introduction Methods Results Discussion –Strengths and weaknesses (300 words) –Future work (300 words) –References (150) My Literature Review

Page  3 –Documents Literature review Student report Self-assessment Training courses attended Submitting the report

Page  4  Before the meeting –Arrange time and place Assessors office –Bound copy of report to assessors a week before  During the meeting –Informal –No presentation –Questions General interest Rationale behind experiments Help and advice Nothing about the addition information I submitted or lab books –Length 1 hour –Outcome Progressed The Assessment Meeting

Page  5 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.

Page  6 Thanks