Best practice identification in a relevant industry and its application to the workplace.

Abstract

This assessment is used on a number of Postgraduate programmes in the Department of Lifelong Learning in TUS Midlands campus as part of the programme capstone module. The assessment consists of two components and involves presenting skills and peer review and work-based learning in component two. In component 1, learners identify a best practice or gold standard organisational / departmental system/ S.O.P or design / workflow in their domain. They are then asked to justify their rationale for the method selected, giving examples of its use, efficiencies and some of the key industry companies who use it. This comes in the form of an essay of 600-900 words. In Component 2, learners are asked to map out the current system they use in their own organisation regarding what corresponds to the gold standard they identified in Component.