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How will I study and be assessed?
We adopt a broad range of teaching methods including lectures, workshops, laboratory practicals, seminars, group-work, debates, presentations and examinations.
In the first year you are taught in small weekly seminar groups to give you the opportunity to discuss issues raised in the lecture, to engage in open debate with your colleagues, and to develop important skills for future employment. You also have laboratory practicals which
are used to teach experimental design and statistical analysis. All of our modules are supported by
constantly updated websites which hold course materials, important weblinks
and discussion sites to which both students and staff contribute. 
What transferable skills will I develop?
Our degrees will equip you with a variety of skills including:
- analysis
- critical thinking
- critical reading
- effective writing
- debating
- group work
- oral presentations
- practical research skills
- library and internet-based research skills
- report writing
- data analysis
Coursework and Assessment
We do our best to ensure that assessment plays a positive role in the learning experience of all our students. We use a variety of assessment methods:
Coursework activities
You will do some essays but you are also likely to write some short (1000 words) analyses and write summaries and critical commentaries. You will design and conduct some small-scale enquiries, sometimes working with others, sometimes alone. You will learn how to analyse data appropriately and how to present your findings. Some tasks require you to use the internet to identify recent research reports that you judge to be valuable and there are also opportunities for you to negotiate a piece of work that you would like to do. The dissertation or project, which is undertaken under the supervision of a tutor, is the most obvious example of this.
Examinations
Examinations are held at the end of the academic year in May and June. We will prepare you for all your examinations with carefully planned revision sessions. In most courses if you do better in exams than on coursework we grade you on the exam mark alone.
Dissertation
The dissertation or project is a compulsory unit and is taken under the
supervision of a tutor, who will help and advise you in independent research
in an area of your choosing. This is the most challenging part of your
degree but it is also the most rewarding because it provides an opportunity
to investigate a topic in depth and make a contribution to our understanding
of it.
How does our research influence our teaching?
Our tutors' research work enriches the undergraduate programme in at least two ways. First, what we teach is what we research. We are working at the leading edge of research activity in our fields of expertise and we bring that into our teaching. What we do is fresh, up-to-date and reflects our nationally-recognised expertise.
Secondly, our educational expertise has informed the design of the undergraduate programme and of the individual modules in it. Our approach to teaching comes from our own research understandings of learning, teaching and assessment.
VIEW video clip of a Jennifer talking to final year students about her career as an educational Psychologist.
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