LD7236 Professional Practice in Computing and Digital Technologies Project Assessment Brief | NUN

Submission of Assessment 

Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA): Please note if your assignment is submitted electronically, it will be submitted online via Turnitin by the given deadline. You will find a Turnitin link on the module's eLP site. 

It is your responsibility to ensure that your assignment arrives before the submission deadline stated above. See the University policy on late submission of work.  

Please note that assignments are subject to anonymous marking.

Instructions on Assessment: 

This strand will be assessed by one summative assessment: an academic report on employment, career and entrepreneurial opportunities within your specialism, including a personal development plan (PDP) of 1,500 words. 

The Report Should Include Three Parts (submitted as one report): 

• Part A - a critical evaluation of employment, entrepreneurial opportunities within your specialism informed by a range of relevant literature, both academic and professional sources (750 words)
• Part B - Personal Development Plan, including a self-analysis that identifies your strengths and weaknesses about your chosen field of work/career path and three action points for personal development to enhance your readiness for your career goals.
• Part C - Portfolio of completed tasks (appendices A-C).
• Name your submission according to the name convention, <your seminar tutor initial>_<your programme>_<your id>.docx, eg NT_AI_w12345678.docx is the filename for the student enrolled in MSc International Project Management attending Ning Tse's class. 
• The assignment should start with a Cover page (to be available on Bb)
• Your report should be written to a professional standard using MS Word and show appropriate and consistent use of type, fonts and line spacing (for this assignment, use Arial 12 and single spacing) and page layouts. Give each page a footer that includes your student ID, the module code, and a page number. It will be assessed in terms of style, meaning, and the accuracy of spelling, grammar, punctuation and syntax.
• Correct and thorough referencing of your sources of information is required. You should follow Harvard Referencing Style throughout your assignment, include in-text citations in the body of the report and provide a full reference list at the end. 'Cite them Right' advises that direct quotations should be indicated by quotation marks or indentation and referenced. Failure to acknowledge your sources or to indicate when you are quoting constitutes plagiarism. You are encouraged to work with each other to discuss the challenges encountered, but you must not work with each other.

Assessment Brief - Component 1 Personal Development 

other to construct your answers. Action will be taken under the University regulations if plagiarism or collusion is suspected. This may result in a loss of marks for the assignment or module. Further advice on these issues can be found on: 

• Northumbria University (2016) Skills Plus help guides, Online.
• Pears, R. & Shields, G. (2013) Cite Them Right: the essential referencing guide, 9th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• You could use the university's online library search facilities.

LD7236 Learning Outcomes Tested in this Assessment 

This assignment will assess the following learning outcomes:  

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a range of hard and soft skills and competencies required for research, employability, and entrepreneurship.
• Critically reflect upon approaches to problem-solving on real-life projects, to evaluate, learn from, and adopt similar, appropriate solutions in future professional practice 

Module Specific Assessment Criteria and Rubric 

The work will be marked out of 100 in line with the University's marking grades and according to the following assessment criteria: 

Description

• Part A: a critical evaluation of employment, entrepreneurial opportunities within your specialism informed by a range of relevant literature, both academic and professional sources (750 words) 40
• Part B: Personal Development Plan, including a self-analysis that identifies your strengths and weaknesses concerning your chosen field of work/career path and three action points for personal development to enhance your readiness for your career goals (750 words) 40
• Part C: Portfolio of completed tasks (appendices A-C), providing evidence of completed tasks and 'Turnitin' submission receipts (A. Annotated bibliography, B. Report Outline, C. Self-analysis)
• Professional Presentation: You must present all three components (Part A, Part B and Part C) as one document to the academic standard commensurate with Level 7.