Assignment Specification:
Assignment Two: Professional MSc Research Project Proposal
KF2028 Research Methods and Project Management
Department of Computer & Information Sciences
| ASSESSMENT BRIEF | |
| Module Title: | Research Methods and Project Management |
| Module Code: | KF7028 |
| Academic Year / Semester: | Semester One, 2022-23 |
| Module Tutor / Email (all queries): | xxxxxxxxxx Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
| % Weighting (to overall module): | 20% |
| Assessment Title: | Assignment Two: Professional Reflection |
| Date of Handout to Students: | Week commencing 26/09/2022 |
| Mechanism for Handout: | The assessment specification and criteria, together with other supporting resources are provided to you on your eLearning Portal (Blackboard) module site for KF7028. An overview of the assignment will be provided in the face to face taught sessions during Week one of the semester, w/c 26/09/2022 |
| Deadline for Attempt Submission by Students: | Thursday 12th January 2023 |
| Mechanism for Submission: | Your assignment should be submitted online via Turnitin through your KF7028 module site. |
| Submission Format / Word Count | You should upload your assignment in either word or pdf format to the appropriate assessment area on the KF7028 Blackboard module site. The length of your written reflection should not exceed 1500 words including references. |
| Date by which Work, Feedback and Marks will be returned: | Draft feedback and marks will be returned to you by Thursday February 2nd 2023. Final marks will only be formally confirmed at the award board. |
| Mechanism for return of Feedback and Marks: | Your draft marks and feedback will be provided online via the main Blackboard module site. Your module tutors can be contacted with any queries relating to your formal feedback. |
Learning Outcomes
These are the module learning outcomes:
Knowledge & Understanding:
LO1: Deploy comprehensive knowledge and understanding of appropriate techniques and tools to plan, research and manage a computing technical project
Intellectual / Professional Skills & Abilities:
LO2: Systematically identify and analyse a complex computing problem and produce a project proposal to solve it, considering professional, ethical, social and legal issues
LO3: Appreciate and apply appropriate techniques, tools and knowledge to support effective project management, research and advanced scholarship
Personal Values Attributes:
LO4: Demonstrate independent research and enquiry skills at an appropriately advance level in the construction of a computing project proposal
LO5: Critically appraise the processes used in the development of a computing project proposal
The following learning outcome (LO) is addressed by this assignment though it also draws on your knowledge and understanding of LOs 1-4:
PVA LO 5: Critically appraise the processes used in the development of a computing project proposal
Assignment Brief
Introduction
For this assignment you should produce an individual professional reflection of your learning journey through this module. This should comprise a critical analysis of how you have developed your project proposal and the personal and professional development that you have experienced through this process.
Throughout the module you should have been keeping your online module journal up to date. You should use this to provide evidence and examplars to support your professional reflection. You should also draw on the relevant literature to inform your reflective practice.
This assignment is therefore important as:
- It accounts for 20% of the overall mark for KF7028, Research Methods and Project Management module.
- It is essential preparation for your final KF7029 MSc Computer Science and Digital Technologies research project.
Your Professional Reflection should contain the following and use these headings:
- Challenges and Solutions
Critically discuss two of the main challenges you encountered during the preparation and writing of your proposal. And outline how you overcome them.
- Interaction and Use of Other People
Critically evaluate your interaction with others during the preparation and writing of your proposal. How useful did you find these interactions and why.
- Main Skills and Expertise
Identify with evidence two existing and two new skills and/or expertise you gained during the preparation and writing of your research proposal
- Lessons Learnt for the Future
Reflect on the whole process of constructing your research proposal and your responses to the previous 3 sections. What have you learnt from this and how will you draw on this learning in the future?
- Professional Development Plan
Complete the following table outlining 5 key areas of professional development that you will focus on going forward to support you on your MSc programme but also for your future career and plans. This could be about acquiring a new technical skill, it could be about improving your academic writing, it could be about managing and planning your time better.
| Identified Professional Development Need | Justification for this need | What actions will you take? | Start Date | End Date | Any Other Comments |
| 1 | |||||
| 2 | |||||
| 3 | |||||
| 4 | |||||
| 5 |
Assessment Criteria and Process
Your assignment will be assessed by one of the module tutors. You will receive your marks and feedback via the Blackboard module site.
Assessment Criteria
The assessment will be assessed using the following five criterion areas, equally weighted with 20 marks allocated to each:
- Challenges and Solutions (20 marks) B. Interaction and Use of Other People (20 marks)
- Main Skills and Expertise (20 marks) D. Lessons Learnt (20 marks) E. Professional Development Plan (20 marks)
| Marks Range | Assessment Criteria | ||||
| A: Challenges and Solutions | B: Interaction and Use of Other People | C: Main Skills and Expertise | D: Lessons Learnt | E: Professional Development Plan | |
| 71-100 | Outstanding critical review of the two main challenges and solutions with strong rationale and appropriate exemplars drawn from your online journal | Insightful evaluation of your interaction with other people with strong rationale and appropriate exemplars | Clear and discerning outline of two existing and two new skills/expertise with excellent justification. | Reflective and evaluative account of lessons learnt drawing on earlier sections and leading to insightful account of how you will draw on this in the future. | Plan is insightful, and appropriate with needs justified and consistent with earlier sections of this professional reflection. |
| 60-69 | Very good critical review of the two main challenges and solutions with useful rationale and exemplars drawn from your online journal. | Perceptive evaluation of your interaction with other people with useful rationale and appropriate exemplars | Clearly evidenced outline of two existing and two new skills/expertise with very good justification. | Reflective account of lessons learnt drawing on earlier sections and leading to useful account of how you will draw on this in the future. | Plan is perceptive and very good with needs justified and mainly consistent with earlier sections of this professional reflection. |
| 50-59 | Good critical review of the two main challenges and solutions with some useful rationale and exemplars drawn from your online journal. | Good evaluation of your interaction with other people with useful rationale and appropriate exemplars. | Clear outline of two existing and two new skills/expertise with adequate justification. | Reflective account of lessons learnt with some links to earlier sections and leading to adequate account of how you will draw on this in the future. | Plan is useful with needs largely justified and generally consistent with earlier sections of this professional reflection. |
| 40-49 | Review of the two main challenges and solutions but rationale and exemplars from online journal are unclear in places. | Basic evaluation of your interaction with other people and rationale and exemplars are unclear in places. | Outline of two existing and two new skills/expertise but justification is unclear in places. | Account of lessons learnt is provided but not linked well to earlier sections and outline is vague of how you will draw on this in the future. | Plan is sensible but is not well justified and is not clearly linked to earlier sections of this professional reflection. |
| 0-39 | Weak or missing review of the two main challenges and solutions with little or missing rationale and exemplars. | Weak or missing evaluation of your interaction with other people with little or missing rationale and exemplars. | Unconvincing or missing outline of two existing and two new skills/expertise with little or no justification. | Account of lessons learnt is missing or unclear with weak or missing links to earlier sections and unclear how you will draw on this in the future. | Plan is unclear in a number of elements and is not well justified. It also does not link clearly to earlier sections of this professional reflection. |
Additional Important Information
Academic Integrity Statement: You must adhere to the university regulations on academic conduct and use excellent academic practice throughout. Formal inquiry proceedings will be instigated if there is any suspicion of plagiarism or any other form of misconduct in your work. Refer to the University’s Academic Regulations for Taught Awards if you are unclear as to the meaning of these terms. The latest copy is available on the University website.
Failure to submit: The University requires all students to submit assessed coursework by the deadline stated in the assessment brief. Where coursework is submitted without approval after the published hand-in deadline, penalties will be applied as defined in the University Policy on the Late Submission of Work and Extension Requests, available on the University website.
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