Assessment Guidance
Summative Assessment

Assessment brief including mapped to learning outcomes.
Assessment type: Coursework 1 (CW1)
The assignment task:
The assignment is to answer the following questions producing a brief 1,500-word report (excluding
references). The reference list does not count towards the word count.
Your report must include the following elements and be presented in the following order:
• Title
• Abstract
• Introduction to include:
• Introduction to the topic area your research explored.
• Rationale for doing the research.
• Research questions and aims.
• Literature review of previous research on the topic you have chosen to write about
• Methodology
• Methods used and rationale for these.
• Sampling and rationale for this
• Research process – (e.g., what you did in practice)
• Ethical considerations – (e.g., what you did to ensure your research was
ethical)
• Reflexivity – (e.g., the part you played in the process and an evaluation of
what you did)
• Results (e.g., themes from qualitative data or statistical results from quantitative
projects)
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Reference list
• Appendices (i.e., your SPSS data output plus a copy of your questionnaire etc.)
Assessment type: Written Exam (EX1)
Assessment task:
The assessment is to answer the following questions:
1. Identify and explain the four levels of measurement, giving an example of each one.
2. Explain what is meant by Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Dispersion.
3. What is the difference between Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics?
4. Explain the following terms:
a. The hypothesis and null hypothesis
b. Independent and dependent variable
c. Extraneous variables
5. Look at the SPSS output and provide an interpretation of the results for the:
a. frequency table
b. crosstabulation
c. Chi-square result
d. Phi/Cramer’s
EXAM DATE: 29 /03 / 2023. Time (TBC)