HOTO6005 Leadership & Professional Development in Tourism & Hospitality Coursework 3 Brief 2026 | Oxford

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HOTO6005 Coursework Brief 3: Individual Leadership & Mentoring Report Portfolio

Summary information

Assessment instructions

To demonstrate that the module learning outcomes detailed above have been achieved, you are required to prepare and submit the following.

SUMMARY TASK: Individual 2,000 words (+/-10%) Reflective Report Portfolio, excluding Reference List, plus Appendices
Critically evaluate the range of IHTI contemporary leadership competencies, acquired through developmental mentoring practice. Subsequently, identify and reflect upon your personal development in two (2) of these leadership competencies, using Gibbs Reflective Cycle and including a personal SWOT analysis. Support your claims with evidence from active engagement with personal experiences. Conclude the report by evaluating your 5-10 year leadership development plan, including your planned competency development, using SMART criteria.

Assessment criteria

To mark your assessment your tutors will use the following assessment criteria,

Presenting coursework for assessment

Your assignment when submitted should not include your name – we use a system of anonymous marking to reduce the risk of any unconscious bias. For some authentic assessments, there may be an exception to this, so please confirm with your Module Leader.
The authentic and essential requirements for this piece of assessed work are listed below. These requirements form part of your professional and skills development to produce high quality and professional-looking documents, as required in business.

• It must be word-processed in 11 point Arial font and double-spaced
• All pages must be numbered
• Margins must be as follows: Top: 1 inch, Bottom: 1 inch (2.5 cm), Left: 1.25 inches, Right: 1.25 inches (3.2 cm)
• It should not contain your name(s)
• You may include tables and figures in the main report; if/where, they are relevant. These must be correctly labelled and cross-referenced.
• Appendices must be numbered and titled, and contain a source, e.g. ‘Appendix 1: An Example of X’, ‘Appendix 2: An Example of Y’. 
• Appendices (with appendix number and titles) should be listed in the List of Contents
• Reports should be written in third person, using critical academic writing; that said, any reflective sections may be written in first person.

Assignment length / equivalent

Whilst we acknowledge that learners will prepare and produce assessments in different ways and at different paces, an indication as to how much time it will take you to prepare, produce, edit and submit this assessment is detailed below.
Words/pages that exceed the maximum allowed (see table below) will not be marked. If in doubt, you should discuss this with the Module Leader before submission.

Coursework #3 – Individual Leadership/Mentoring Portfolio and Review Report:

The specified word count refers to the main body of the report and does not include front cover, title page, contents page, executive summary, reference list, bibliography or appendices.  The word count does include headings, tables and in-text citations, but not equations or diagrams. Appendices themselves will not be marked. However, inappropriate use of appendices will be taken into consideration when awarding the final mark.

Artificial Intelligence and its use in this assessment

All students should complete the ‘Use of Artificial Intelligence’ course available on Moodle. After taking it, please upload your Certificate of Completion to the submission link on the Hosting Core Module HOTO6005: https://moodle.brookes.ac.uk/mod/assign/view.php?id=2933473

This link will take you to further guidance on the use of AI tools at Brookes. This link will take you to the Moodle course Use of Artificial Intelligence.

For this assessment specifically, the extent you can use AI tools is detailed below,

• If you use any AI tools for this assessment, you need to state your use in the declaration form when you submit your work. In this assignment, you can use AI tools as follows: for initial planning and brainstorming ideas, to find references (in accordance with the Brookes Library guide to using AI tools for research) and for final proofreading to check grammar before submission. You need to state your use in the declaration form when you submit your work.

Use of Turnitin

The new Turnitin policy effective from September 2022 can be found via this link. You are expected to be familiar with it. It is important to know that the reference list and quotations are included in the overall similarity report, and that these matches are expected and not problematic.
For more information on how to interpret your similarity index report, please refer to this link.

Submission instructions

Assignment(s) on this module will be submitted through Moodle, using the Turnitin tool. You can find these here: Assessment Information & Submission Boxes

There will be three different and distinct submission dropboxes for each assessment:

1.    Draft drop box - for student use only, to check your Turnitin SI% Report (see here)
There is a module draft submission box for each assessment (see #1 above) and this will not be viewed by the module leader, and any work submitted will not be assessed. You should upload a draft version of your assessment to produce a personal Similarity Index % (SI%) report. This should be done well in advance of the submission deadline. These submissions are not returned to the Turnitin repository, i.e. are not stored and therefore should not cause a future match.
2.    Final submission drop box - for most submissions due on the (stated) submission deadline
Each coursework also has a separate ‘final’ submission dropbox (see #2 above), for the original deadline, as stated. 
3.    Exceptional Circumstances and Inclusion Support final submission drop box (EC/ISP) - ONLY for approved extensions
Lastly, anyone with an approved extension (e.g. ISP or EC) will use the ‘ISP/EC’ submission box (see #3 above) for their submission.

For all submissions, please take note:

• It is your responsibility to upload your final submission to the correct drop box
• Only upload your document to the allocated Module dropbox; never another Turnitin access or drop box - this will likely create a match and will be referred for academic integrity investigation.
• Any late submissions (without approved extenuating circumstances) will not be assessed and will receive zero grade
• Please follow this naming convention for your final submission file(s) when you upload to Turnitin: <Student ID#>_CW#3_Report Portfolio_HOTO6005

How your work will be marked

Once the submission date has passed your module tutors will begin to mark your work. There are a number of phases to this which ensure fairness is maintained across the whole team including a pre-marking calibration meeting, marking and post-marking internal moderation of grades.  Following internal moderation, a sample of work is reviewed by the External Examiner for the programme to ensure that the standards applied are comparable to those at other institutions. To read how your work is moderated please go to your programme handbook for details.

Feedback

Feedback on your work will be provided in a range of ways at various times throughout this module, and different feedback will serve slightly different purposes. Feedback is designed to support your learning and help you to improve subsequent work, so you need to engage and get the most out of the feedback provided. 
Please note that feedback is provided throughout the module not just on formally assessed tasks. It will be provided on your work and contribution in class, on the formal assessment tasks and, in some circumstances, during student office hours. 

If you would like further information about feedback, or how to use it, please talk to your academic tutor on this module or your Academic Adviser or Programme Lead.

• Feedback on student learning will be provided in class on a regular basis, through discussion and interactive learning activities. Feedback is designed to support student learning and help students improve subsequent work (this is called ‘formative feedback’). Regular attendance at all taught sessions will ensure that students maximise feedback opportunities.
• Valuable feedback opportunities are also offered via interactions with the two mentoring programmes. Specifically, students are expected to ask for feedback from industry mentors and first year student mentees and this will require students to actively engage with and manage mentoring relationships.
• This module provides an opportunity for tutorial prior to the submission of each assignment so that students can discuss their approach to the assignments and receive verbal feedback from a tutor on this. Students can also seek one-on-one advice through tutor office hours.
• Written feedback is given on each assignment, and in addition, performance on the first assignment is discussed in class.
• Active participation in debates enables both peer and tutor-led feedback of their critical analysis of a contemporary leadership subject.

In the case of mid-semester assessments, provisional marks will normally be released 15 calendar days after the date of the submission and on the assumption that all students will have submitted by this date.  For end of semester assessments, marks will normally be released after the exam board at the start of the following semester. Please note that all marks are provisional until they are ratified by an Examination Committee. Please see Key Dates for clarification.

HOTO6005 Assessment criteria rubric assessment 3: Individual Leadership & Mentoring Report Portfolio CW#3