Week 8 - Final Assessment (Summative Assignment 4) 1
Week 8 - Final Assessment (Summative Assignment 4) 1
ASSESSMENT POINT 4
The aim of this assignment is to practice the skills required to write evidence-based policy analysis.
1. Select a country from the OECD Policy Outlook portal list of countries and draft an evidence-based-
policy proposal focused on improving teachers’ capacities and skills by using data from the:
Submission Details
Work will be marked out of 40%. Please submit the Introduction and Conclusion in the same document
WITHOUT the original essay. The assignment should be submitted in electronic format (.doc or .pdf
document)). Make sure that the document’s name is your student number and name. You may use
external sources to support your response. If you do, please include appropriate in-text
citations/footnotes and a Reference List, according to the Reference Style prescribed by your department.
By submitting your work, you are agreeing to abide by the University’s regulations on plagiarism. Plagiarism
is defined as presenting the work of someone else as your own. This includes statistical data, graphs, charts
and any other graphically represented material. It also includes copying of another student’s work for
submission as your own. For more information on this, read the University's Student Regulations.
Learning Outcome:
Students are required to report the outcomes of the data analysis.
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Level 8 Excellent (90-100) Very Good (80-89) Improvement Marginal fail (70-72) Fail (0-69)
UUs needed (73-79)
taught
modules
Overall ● Very sophisticated ● Very good grasp of ● Satisfactory ● The work lacks ● A poor grasp of
presentation grasp of subject appropriate grasp of subject fluency and appropriate
10% specific terminology. subject specific specific precision and terminology;
Very few, if any, terminology terminology written frequent errors in
language errors ● Referencing is ● Referencing may communication is grammar, syntax
● Accurate referencing generally correct contain error only partly and terminology
● Consistent formatting ● Consistent ● Formatting successful seriously impede
that facilitates the formatting with errors are ● Referencing may understanding
reader’s engagement occasional errors; evident but do contain significant ● Referencing style
only when not impede inconsistencies used very poorly
complex ideas are understanding of ● Low quality or is absent
discussed main points formatting ● Poor and
inadequate
presentation