Birmingham City Business School
Module Report Form (incorporating internal examiner and moderator reports)

Term: 1 & 2 Year: 2010/11 Module Code : Module Name : Globalisation |
Statistics to be included (where available or to be inserted at the field board):

Number of students registered:
Number of students assessment 1:
Number of students assessment 2 (where applicable):
Number of students provisionally awarded a Module Pass at the examination board in June/July for undergraduate programmes:

Module Co-ordinator : Peter Walker Date 24 May 2011 |
Assessment Report:
Overview of how well students handled the assessment 1 (for example how well students understood material, met expectations, integrated knowledge, language skills, etc)

1. Overall this year’s cohort performed very well; 147 students took the assessment of these 5 obtained marks in the 1st class category, 68 obtained 2:1, 54 2:2, 16 3rd class and 4 students failed. In percentage terms this is a 97% pass rate. With the average mark skewed towards the 2:1 level. Given that a significant number of the students were on our top up degrees programme and therefore did not have English as their first language, this was a particularly gratifying result.

(handling of specific questions/sections and strengths/weaknesses in relation to each question )

1. The exam is separated into two sections, section A was related to a case study that the students received around 3 weeks prior to the examination and section B addressed some of the conceptual material from the module. In general students handled section A, very well, having been briefed on the key issues, they prepared themselves well for the case study element. In section B the questions examined broader themes and, in general, students found this more testing. Most of the candidates chose to address the question related to export subsidies and students that did so generally performed better than those that opted for the less technical questions related to growth processes of East Asia compared with Europe and business issues arising from European integration.

(recommendations for student improvement)

2. Students will improve their performance by attending the revision session and following the revision guidelines as published through Moodle. Furthermore, as it is a restricted open book exam in which students are permitted to take in up to 2000 words of their own pre-prepared notes, the ability to cite and source theories or concepts will be rewarded with additional marks.

Assessment 2 Report: 2. Overview of how well students handled assessment 2 (where applicable)
(for example how well students understood material, met expectations, integrated knowledge, language skills, etc)

N/A
(handling of specific questions and strengths/weaknesses in relation to each question )

N/A
(recommendations for student improvement)

Signed: …………………………………………… Date………………
(Module Coordinator)

Internal Moderators Report:

Assessment 1 – element of assessment:
Please give your comments on the standard of marking for the element of assessment:

Please tick one of the following:

I confirm agreement of the marking standard.

Evidence of systematic variance was found and an adjustment was made to items of work for the entire element of assessment in agreement with the first marker.
Evidence of systematic variance was found. This was not resolved after discussion with the first marker and was referred for further moderation and forwarded to the external examiner.
Evidence of a considerable level of erratic variance was found. This was resolved after discussion with the first marker and without any alteration of marks.
Evidence of a considerable level of erratic variance was found. The matter was not resolved after discussion with the first marker and is referred to the Examination Board Chair.

Number of scripts moderated: …………………… Number of scripts submitted: ………………….

Evidence of sufficient written comments/feedback? YES/NO

Signed: ……………………………………………… Date …………………………….
(Internal moderator(s)

Assessment 2 – element of assessment:
Please give your comments on the standard of marking for the element of assessment:

Please tick one of the following:

I confirm agreement of the marking standard.

Evidence of systematic variance was found and an adjustment was made to items of work for the entire element of assessment in agreement with the first marker.
Evidence of systematic variance was found. This was not resolved after discussion with the first marker and was referred for further moderation and forwarded to the external examiner.
Evidence of a considerable level of erratic variance was found. This was resolved after discussion with the first marker and without any alteration of marks.
Evidence of a considerable level of erratic variance was found. The matter was not resolved after discussion with the first marker and is referred to the Examination Board Chair.

Number of scripts moderated: …………………… Number of scripts submitted: ………………….

Evidence of sufficient written comments/feedback? YES/NO

Signed: ……………………………………………… Date …………………………….
(Internal moderator(s))