Associated Assessment Criteria:
1. Presentation: By working in small groups to develop and deliver presentations, participants experience the challenges associated with group responsibility, collective decision-making, and persuasive communication. These exercises enhance participants` ability to express their ideas clearly and convincingly – a valuable personal asset in business life.
2. Exposure to experts: Participants attend IT related seminars and conferences, giving them a practical exposure to innovations and application development by industry experts. Contact with such a large number of executive is both intellectually stimulating and a professionally invaluable experience. Networking is a key skill that is developed at such events.
3. Speaker series: This is intended to help participants learn from the “real world” experiences of industry experts. The experts address the personal thrills and professional challenges of a business environment.
4. Evaluating process – personal and professional growth: The evaluation process of DCS is designed to both help participants improve their performance and also discover how their limits can be stretched, personally and professionally. DCS gives personalised feedback to each participant, based on close observation of his or her performance in class discussions, group assignments and written work. One-on-one discussions and specific coaching often follow these assessments. This kind of intense feedback keeps participants informed of their progress in the programme and serves as a vehicle for self-improvements, personal development and professional and intellectual growth throughout the year.
5. Performance standards: Attitudes and skills are considered part of a participant`s performance, in addition to substantive knowledge. Consequently, each participant is evaluated on his/her performance in several areas: class participation, group work and projects, oral presentations, tests, formal examinations, and less frequently, written reports. When a participant`s performance falls below standard, the course director will formally demand that corrective action is taken.
6. Professional conduct: Participants are expected to conduct themselves with high professional standards, inside and outside DCS. They must be available for active participation in all programme activities (individual and group work, and class sessions) five days a week. Punctual and regular attendance is required a t all times and is a condition for graduating from the programme.
Specific Associated Assessment Criteria:
Assessors should develop and conduct their own assessment against the specific and critical outcomes, the essential embedded knowledge and the values in the unit standard.
Such assessment is to meet the requirements of established assessment principles, and should specifically check for the following:
1. Relate learning gained from individual experience to knowledge encountered in an academic environment, and vice versa.
2. Relate learning from experience and academic contexts to different contexts using present and future scenarios
3. The collection of data in accordance with the research project design, with deviations from design where necessary.
4. The observation of research ethics in collecting, utilising and presenting data and conclusions.
5. The building of research partnerships and networks with colleagues and other stakeholders.
6. The processing of data according to the research project design, with deviations from design where necessary.
7. Explanations of how data was interpreted and the conclusions reached.
8. Explanations of the usefulness and appropriateness of research techniques and instruments chosen.
9. The identification of gaps in the research design or implementation and recommendation for overcoming these.
10. Presentation techniques and technologies appropriate to the research and the target audience.
11. Specific assessment procedures:
Assignments
Tests
Sub-Assignments
Final Examinations
Sub-Examinations
Integrated Assessment:
Continuous assessments are carried out during the course i.e. tests, assignments, group exercises, class exercises.
Formative and summative assessments are integrated i.e. final exam, skills assessment, etc.
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