GUIDANCE FOR STUDENTS IN THE COMPLETION OF TASKS
NOTE: The guidance offered below is linked to the five generic assessment criteria overleaf.
1. Engagement with Literature Skills
Your work must be informed and supported by scholarly material that is relevant to and focused on the task(s)
set. You should provide evidence that you have accessed an appropriate range of sources, which may be
academic, governmental and industrial; these sources may include academic journal articles, textbooks,
current news articles, organisational documents, and websites. You should consider the credibility of your
sources; academic journals are normally highly credible sources while websites require careful
consideration/selection and should be used sparingly. Any sources you use should be current and up-todate, mostly published within the last five years or so, though seminal/important works in the field may be
older. You must provide evidence of your research/own reading throughout your work, using a suitable
referencing system, including in-text citations in the main body of your work and a reference list at the end of
your work.
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2. Knowledge and Understanding Skills
At level 5, you should be able to demonstrate: sound knowledge and critical understanding of the wellestablished concepts and principles of the subject area and the way in which those principles have
developed; knowledge of the main methods of enquiry in the discipline. Knowledge relates to the facts,
information and skills you have acquired through your learning. You demonstrate your understanding by
interpreting the meaning of the facts and information (knowledge). This means that you need to select and
include in your work the concepts, techniques, models, theories, etc. appropriate to the task(s) set. You
should be able to explain the theories, concepts, etc. meaningfully to show your understanding. Your
mark/grade will also depend upon the extent to which you demonstrate your knowledge and understanding. ACCA5029 Network Programmability – Assessment 2 – Term 12
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3. Cognitive and Intellectual Skills
You should be able to critically analyse information, and propose solutions to problems arising from that
analysis, including the critical evaluation of the appropriateness of different approaches to solving problems.
Your work must contain evidence of logical, analytical thinking, evaluation and synthesis. For example, to
examine and break information down into parts, make inferences, compile, compare and contrast information.
This means not just describing what! But also justifying: Why? How? When? Who? Where? At what cost? At
all times, you must provide justification/evidence for your arguments and judgements. Evidence that you
have reflected upon the ideas of others within the subject area is crucial to you providing a reasoned and
informed debate within your work. Furthermore, you should provide evidence that you are able to make
sound judgements and convincing arguments using data and concepts, with an understanding of the limits
of knowledge, and how this influences analyses and interpretations. Sound, valid conclusions are necessary
and must be derived from the content of your work. Where relevant, alternative solutions and recommendations may be proposed.
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4. Practical Skills
At level 5, you should be able to use/deploy a range of established techniques within the discipline, and apply
underlying concepts and principles outside the context in which they were first studied, including, where
appropriate, the application of those principles in an employment context. You should be able to demonstrate
how the subject-related concepts and ideas relate to real world situations and/or a particular context. How
do they work in practice? You will deploy models, methods, techniques, and/or theories, in that context, to
assess current situations, perhaps to formulate plans or solutions to solve problems, or to create artefacts, some of which may be creative. This is likely to involve, for instance, the use of real world artefacts, examples
and cases, the application of a model within an organisation and/or benchmarking one theory or organisation
against others based on stated criteria. You should show awareness of the limitations of concepts and
theories when applied in particular contexts.
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5. Transferable Skills for Life and Professional Practice
Your work must provide evidence of the qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment requiring
the exercise of personal responsibility and decision-making. This includes demonstrating: professional
development to advance existing skills and acquire new competences that will enable you to assume
significant responsibility within organisations; that you can initiate and complete tasks and procedures,
whether individually and/or collaboratively; that you can use appropriate media to effectively communicate
information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms to specialist and non-specialist audiences; fluency
of expression; clarity and effectiveness in presentation and organisation. Work should be coherent and wellstructured in presentation and organisation.
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STUDENT FEEDBACK FORM
This section details the extent to which the assessment criteria are demonstrated by you, which in turn determines yourmark. The marks available for each category of skill are shown. Lecturers will use the space provided to comment on the achievement of the task(s), including those areas in which you have performed well and areas that would benefit from development/improvement.
