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Module Assessment
BUSI49107 Professional Practice (PP)

Briefing Document and Assessment Criteria

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Contents

 Introduction 2
 The Assessment Procedure 3
 The Video Presentation: Getting Started 3
 The Video Presentation: Design and Layout 5
 Where do I host and upload my video presentation? 6
 Assessment Grading 6
 5 Video Interview Questions 7
Introduction

This assessment is based on developing skills identified in your personal development

plan. As outlined in your module handbook, this assessment is weighted at 100% of the
total module marks. The assessment has been designed as an opportunity to demonstrate
to the assessors how you have developed during your time at Nottingham Business
School. Evidence of your development should have been uploaded to your PebblePad
workbook during the course, and assessors will require access to this prior to the formal
assessment.

The assessors will want you to evidence the following Learning Outcomes from
engaging in this module:

Knowledge and Understanding.

a. Use diagnostics to examine their strengths and weaknesses and draw up a Personal
Action Plan to develop personal effectiveness.

b. Understand and explore sustainability and how aspects of their discipline contribute to
one or more of the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

c. Discuss the skills and techniques required to create effective teams and learn how to
manage and/or lead team members more effectively.

d. Learn about wellbeing issues and explore potential coping strategies to manage their
own wellbeing.

Skills, Qualities and Attributes.

a. Evidence the ability to communicate effectively to professional colleagues and
academic audiences in a clear and concise manner.

b. Demonstrate key professional skills required to develop their employability and future
prospects.

c. Develop the capacity to reflect on action so as to engage in a process of life-long and

life-wide learning.

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The Assessment Procedure

The assessment comprises of a 20-minute video presentation. This will include you
answering 5 interview questions (3 on the SDGs and 2 on teamwork/
leadership).

The Video Presentation: Getting Started

Your video presentation needs to evidence the learning outcomes stated in the
introduction section, as well as any other things you may wish to share with us about what
you have learnt.

How you chose to do this is entirely up to you. This is because everyone’s personal and
professional development is different. It will happen in different and unique ways. It may
be slow for some or more rapid for others. You may have struggled with it, you may have
enjoyed it. No matter what, your personal and professional life-long learning journey is
not over- it has only just begun.

To stimulate your thinking, try reflecting on this meta-(overarching) question to get you
started:

How do you feel you have developed as a person whilst studying at

NTU?

You could also think about giving your video a title- like a book title that reflects what you
are going to present. A title to stimulate your thinking, as an example (from the work of
Carl Rogers):

This is Me: The Development of My Professional Thinking and Personal

Philosophy.

You may wish to engage with the learning outcomes in another way. There may be
another structure or question(s) you wish to ask of yourself that will enable you to explore
and evidence you have met the learning outcomes.

 What are your strengths and weaknesses based on using diagnostic tools (self-
evaluation and examination)? What are your thoughts on these types of self-
assessments?

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  Talk about your PDP and how you created your plan of self-development.
 What have you done during your time as an NBS postgraduate student to develop
yourself? How have you changed your practices, and how do you know you
have changed?
 What type of CPD did you do, why did you choose to do these things and what
have you learnt? How do these activities link to your Personal Action Plan? Be
analytical, and not just descriptive. What have you learnt about yourself? What
are you now doing differently because of these learnings? Think about what you
have learnt from engaging in these activities/events. Remember do not just
describe what you have done, but what you have learnt from what you
have done. What new knowledge have you acquired that has informed and
changed your actions and attitude and behaviour, for example how you approach
other people, your work, and deal with yourself?
 Reflect on why you think learning about yourself and developing your skills
is an important and valuable thing to do in general and in relation to your
career ambitions.

Interview Questions
 You will also be asked 3 interview questions on the SDGs and why they
matter. You may wish to share your views on their creation, credibility, and
implementation. Are you inspired by them? Which ones mean the most to you
personally? Which ones are the most important to your future industry? How would
you go about implementing them in your place of work? You also need to consider
responsible management and what that means.

 You will be asked 2 interview questions on teamwork/leadership. Reflect on

what you have learned about leadership and management of people and how you
anticipate using your knowledge in the future to manage high performing teams?
Talk about team conflicts, negotiations, and challenges (think about your
coursework groups and time management, poor performance of others etc.)

Fundamentally, your presentation needs to show us how you have developed,

matured, grown and learnt about yourself, others and the business environment.
Do not feel you must follow the ideas above- you can evidence the learning outcomes in
any way you wish to.

Finally, do not think the final presentation needs to be about all the good things, the
positives. A lot of our greatest learning comes from learning from failure, and/or difficult

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and challenging situations. Therefore, do not feel we only want to hear about your
successes. We can hear about the challenges as well!

PebblePad is a tool to help you capture your thoughts throughout the year,
but it does not have to frame your video and dictate your structure. The use
of PebblePad should be evidenced in your presentation as it needs to
evidence your diagnostics, Personal Development Plan and CPD activity.

The Video Presentation: Design and Layout

You can prepare for the video presentation using PowerPoint, Prezi or a similar
presentation software. If you want to stick to a format with which you are most familiar
feel free for this video to use a set of voiced-over Prezi or Powerpoint presentation slides.

Practice is essential, so make sure you that run through your presentation in advance.
If you have used slides to structure your talk but your video just shows your face rather
than the slides, you may want to also drop-box your slides so that your tutor can look at
these at the same time as viewing the video.

Or you can choose to just speak directly into a camera without the use of any presentation
software. You can be in any location you wish, bedroom, park, café, parked car, garden
9just make sure the background noise is not too noisy).

It would be nice to see you on the video. We build relationships with each other through
the year, so it’s nice to end that relationship with you presenting yourself on the video.
However, it is not mandatory, and you do not have to do this if you do not wish too.

To help your connection with your audience try to avoid just reading from a script. It
sounds monotone and does not always bring that level of authenticity we would like to
hear (particularly if we cannot see you on the video).

Ultimately, we want you to be able to present yourself in a way that reflects who you are
and your development.

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Where do I host and upload my video presentation?
Because the video files are generally too large to be simply uploaded to a NOW drop-box

(the maximum size NOW can take is 512MB) the videos should be uploaded as a video on
to a server such as YouTube or Vimeo.com and then a single page WORD document
(with the URL link to your video and your students details) added to the NOW Dropbox.
See the guidance around this below (for YouTube):

Assessment Grading
Nottingham Business School assesses your work using a grade-based assessment
approach. Your work is assessed against the grade descriptors using an assessment
matrix. Each part of the assessment has its own assessment grid, and the grid is provided
in the next few pages of this document.

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Remember we will not be expecting a response which suggests that you are perfect in
every way. Rather, what will be looked for is an honest, reflective and evidenced account
of the actions you have taken, what you have learned and how you have developed.

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Learning Outcomes
b) Demonstrate engagement with the
concepts of sustainability and responsible
management.
c) Understand and explore how aspects of
their discipline contribute to one or more of
the UN Global Goals for Sustainable
Development.
d) Discuss the skills and techniques
required to create effective teams and learn
how to manage and/or lead team members
more effectively.
5 Video Interview Questions
You need to answer the 3 Questions on the SDGs in the Video and 2 competency questions:
You need to answer the following questions in your video:
1. What research have you done to help you understand more about the UN SDGs and why they
matter?
2. Reflecting on your knowledge and experiences this year, how do you think you could make a
difference, in relation to the Global Goals, in your chosen profession in the future?
3. What do you understand by the term responsible management and why do you think it matters in
business?
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4. Describe a situation where you had to solve a problem as a team. What did you do? What was the
result? What might you have done differently?
5. In your personal opinion, what are the top 3 characteristics of successful managers? How close do
you feel you are in reflecting these characteristics?
The STAR Technique will help you to structure your answer. This is also sometimes known as SOAR, where "Task"
is replaced by "Objective".
• Situation: Describe the situation.
• Task: Describe what task was required of you.
• Action: Tell the interviewer what action you took.
• Result: Conclude by describing the result of that action.
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Module
Assessment Element (as stated
in the assessment brief)
Assessment submission date
NBS Feedback Form for Postgraduate Coursework
BUSI49107 Professional Practice Student Number and
Name
Video Presentation (online) Assessor name (s)
Date Feedback Uploaded

MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSED

Knowledge and Understanding. Skills, Qualities and Attributes.
a. Use diagnostics to examine their strengths and weaknesses and a. Evidence the ability to communicate effectively to professional
draw up a Personal Action Plan to develop personal effectiveness.
colleagues and academic audiences in a clear and concise manner.
b. Understand and explore sustainability and how aspects of their
discipline contribute to one or more of the UN Global Goals for
b. Demonstrate key professional skills required to develop their
Sustainable Development.
employability and future prospects.
c. Discuss the skills and techniques required to create effective
teams and learn how to manage and/or lead team members more
effectively. c. Develop the capacity to reflect on action so as to engage in a
process of life-long and life-wide learning.
d. Learn about wellbeing issues and explore potential coping
strategies to manage their own wellbeing.

Element Grade
The overall grade for the work is based on a holistic assessment and is determined by how well the criteria have been met overall and not the
sum of the individual aspects of the work.
In the matrix below, grades awarded against each criterion indicate that the relevant aspect of the work can be more readily associated with
that category than any other. Allocation of a grade does not indicate that work exactly matches the associated description.
Exceptional Distinction

High Pass High Commendation High Distinction

Mid Fail Mid Pass Mid Commendation Mid Distinction

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Zero If a zero grade, select the appropriate comment below:
NS - No work submitted or submitted > 5 working days after deadline
NE - Work is not yet submitted, and student has an Extension
Component
Student evidences the
ability to use diagnostic
tools and/or other
alternative self-evaluation
tools to examine their
strengths and weaknesses,
producing an appropriate
PDP to develop
themselves.
Student demonstrates key
professional skills required
to develop their
employability and future
prospects.
Student develops the
capacity to self -reflect on
action so as to engage in a
process of continuous
learning.
Low Fail Marginal Fail Pass Commendation Distinction
NK - Work submitted and is in moderation
NN – Student did not attend for an exam
Fail Marginal Fail Pass Commendation Distinction
No attempt made to A limited/ poor An adequate/basic A good/very good An excellent or
engage with any self- attempt made to attempt made to engage attempt has been made sophisticated attempt
evaluation and engage with self- with self-evaluation and to engage with self- has been made to
examination tools. evaluation and examination tools. evaluation and engage with self-
examination tools. examination tools. evaluation and
No PDP has been An adequate PDP plan examination tools.
created or considered A limited/ poor PDP has been created based A good/very good,
or a very poor PDP with has been created or upon the findings of the detailed PDP has been An excellent or
no evaluative no PDP has been self-evaluation. created, linking to the exceptional, reflective
foundation has been created. findings of the self- and detailed PDP has
created. evaluation. been created, linking
to the findings of the
self-evaluation.
No understanding of A limited/ poor An adequate/basic A good/very good An excellent or
professional skills and understanding of understanding of understanding of exceptional and
how this knowledge professional skills how professional skills and professional skills and detailed
translates in practice to this knowledge how this knowledge how this knowledge understanding of
improve prospects and translates in practice translates in practice to translates in practice to professional skills and
self-development. to improve prospects improve prospects and improve prospects and how this knowledge
and self-development. self-development. self-development. translates in practice
to improve prospects
and self-development.
No capacity to reflect A limited/ poor An adequate/ basic A good/very good An excellent or
on oneself and one's capacity to reflect on capacity to reflect on capacity to reflect on exceptional and
actions in order to learn oneself and one's oneself and one's actions oneself and one's detailed account,
and develop through a actions in order to in order to learn and actions in order to learn reflecting on oneself
process of continuous learn and develop develop through a and develop through a and one's actions in
learning, is evidenced. through a process of process of continuous process of continuous order to learn and
continuous learning, is learning, is evidenced. learning, is evidenced. develop through a
evidenced. process of continuous
learning, is evidenced.
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Student is aware of the No awareness of the Poor/ limited An adequate/ basic A good/very good An excellent or
skills and techniques techniques and skills awareness of the awareness of the reflective awareness of exceptional reflective
required to create required to either techniques and skills techniques and skills the techniques and awareness of the
effective teams and how to create, manage or lead required to either required to either create, skills required to either techniques and skills
manage and/or lead team a team of people in the create manage or lead manage or lead a team create, manage or lead required to either
members more effectively. production of a task. a team of people in of people in the a team of people in the create, manage or
the production of a production of a task. production of a task. lead a team of people
task. in the production of a
task.
Student understands and No understanding or Poor/limited An adequate/ basic A good/very good and An excellent or
explain the UN Global awareness of understanding or understanding or reflective understanding exceptional, detailed
Goals for Sustainable sustainability and awareness of awareness of or awareness of and reflective
Development and responsible sustainability and sustainability and sustainability and understanding or
demonstrate management and/or responsible responsible management responsible awareness of
understanding of the the SDGs and their management and/or and/or the SDGs and management and/or sustainability and
importance of sustainable importance. the SDGs and their their importance. the SDGs and their responsible
and responsible importance. importance. management and/or
management. the SDGs and their
importance.
Presentation (oral and Unacceptable Poor presentation- An adequate/basic A good/very good An excellent or
visual) presentation- construction and style presentation- presentation – meaningful and deep
construction and style- with little development construction and style, construction and style presentation style and
no development detail detail or personal with some development and development tone, with excellent or
or personal connection connection made with details. A personal detail, with personal exceptional
made with the viewer. the content of the connection made with connection made with development detail
Poor communication. viewer. Limited/ basic the content viewer. the content and viewer. personal connection
communication. Satisfactory Very good with the content and
communication. communication. the viewer. Excellent
communication.
What you did well in this coursework.
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What you can do to improve your future coursework.

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Below, if applicable, are highlighted some additional online resources that are maintained by the NTU Library, and that you can access via your
NOW Student Help Learning Room. Engaging with these resources and the feedback provided above can also support you to enhance specific
aspects of your work.
Writing Managing your time

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Referencing Presentation skills

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