MSM7052 S1  Managing Global Challenges Assessment Brief PRES1 2025/26

Contents

• Assessment Details
• Submission Details
• Assessment Criteria
• Further Information
• Who can answer questions about my assessment?
• Referencing and independent learning
• Technical submission problems
• Late submission and mitigating circumstances
• Academic Misconduct
• How is my work graded?

Assessment Details

MSM7052 Task/Assessment brief:

You should choose one global challenge, defined as a public problem of transnational scope, which is relevant to public management in a country with which you are familiar.
 
You should choose your global challenge according to your interests you and career plans. You should discuss your challenge with your tutor.

To complete the assessment task, you need upload a pre-recorded presentation that:

1. Explains why your selected problem is a global challenge
2. In terms of public management, identifies the key actors and institutions in the current global arrangements for dealing with the challenge
3. Evaluates the effectiveness of these public management arrangements.

The presentation should be between 4 and 6 minutes in length and use no more than 5 PowerPoint slides. 

You should record narration for each slide using the PowerPoint video recording feature and submit the narrated slides to the submission point on Moodle as a .pptx file. 

In the seminars, we will discuss:

1. How to use the PowerPoint video recording feature.
2. The key features of a high quality, successful video presentation.

You will have the opportunity in the seminars to complete a ‘dry run’ of your presentation to get informal feedback from your tutor and peers. This is not assessed but you are encouraged to reflect critically on the feedback to help your deliver the best possible output that you can in the final PRES1 submission.

The rationale for this authentic assessment is to develop your critical perspectives on managing global challenges by building empirical knowledge of the problem which you will use as the basis of your policy report in WRIT1.

Length of presentation:    1000 words equivalent (see above)

Academic or technical terms explained:

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Knowledge (recall) is the ability to remember something

Comprehension (understand) means that you understand knowledge. In practice, this means you can explain the knowledge in terms of your existing learning and experience. This assessment requires you to explain why the problem you have selected is a global challenge.

Application (use) means doing after being shown how or ability to apply abstract concepts to particular known or novel situations. This assessment requires you to use different concepts from public management to identify the key actors and institutions in the management arrangements for your global challenge. 

Evaluation (judge) is to give the value of something, to state its strengths and weaknesses.

The learning outcome ‘independently examine’ means can you analyse and create your own arguments. This assessment requires you to develop your own evaluation of the global public management arrangements for your global challenge.

Submission Details

MSM7052 Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes assessed

• Identify and evaluate different public management approaches to address global challenges.
• Independently examine questions of public management for global challenges. 

Other skills/attributes developed

This includes elements of the Cardiff Met EDGE (Ethical, Digital, Global and Entrepreneurial skills) and other attributes developed in students through the completion of the module and assessment. These will also be highlighted in the module guidance, which should be read by all students completing the module. Assessments are not just a way of auditing student knowledge. They are a process which provides additional learning and development through the preparation for and completion of the assessment. 

• Ethical: The module will consider the ethical issues associated with globalisation and the capacity of governments to add contribute public value to their societies. 
• Digital: Many aspects and facets of e-government are considered in the module learning and teaching programme 
• Global: This module will draw on case material from around the world. 
• Entrepreneurial: Key issues relating to creativity and innovative thinking in contemporary public management will be considered

Marking/Assessment Criteria

Content (50%): The content of the presentation will provide a background overview to your challenge and, in terms of public management, identify the key actors and institutions and evaluate their effectiveness. 

Structure and layout (25%): The presentation should be clearly structured and laid out to aid the critical analysis of your global challenge through a narrated slide deck. 

Communicaton (25%): The presentation should demonstrate creativity in communicating effectively to the audience within the constraints of a 5-minute narrated slide deck. This requires evidence of innovation in both the design of the PowerPoint slides and in the presentation itself.