Assigned Practical Tasks

Overview

An assigned practical task is a purpose-designed piece of work that is intended to assess the

students in various ways. These include in particular:

Intellectual Engagement:the ability of the student to discover, absorb, master and reflect upon theoretical knowledge, accepted practice and methodologies relating to the field in question.
Engineering: the ability to successfully harness theory in the service of the practical task at hand, as judged by the quality of any artifacts produced.
Self Organisation: this includes aspects of project planning (the ability to divide the project into manageable subparts), time management (i.e. the ability to define and execute a schedule for achieving the subparts) and personal drive (ability to take own initiative).
Communication:the ability to successfully present the work undertaken both in written and oral form.