FYP: The Road To Self-Assessment

Abstract

This active learning project is part of a development for an online self-reflective and self-assessment assistive technology enhanced learning tool designed for final year project students within the Faculty of Business and Humanities, LIT. Summary of Teaching & Learning Context Subject domain, group size, stage of programme (year 1, 2, 3, 4) The inclusion of the Final Year Projects in Year 4 has been a significant development in course provision that has altered the learning landscape for all student learners over the past number of years. Over all there are currently approximately 300 final year students within the faculty undertaking the FYP module and within the module students chose from either a research thesis or a business plan. Since the initial proposition to examine the Final Year Project as an active learning strategy with a solid contribution to teaching pedagogy the authors have now initial research findings to share and disseminate. Subsequently since the initial concept to examine this research area we have pilot tested the third- and fourth-year Faculty of Business & Humanities students from across multiple subject areas. While not exhaustive as other degree programme do exist, it resulted in 188 replies to our survey spread across the marketing, enterprise, innovation and applied social science discipline spectrum. For the first ever we now have factual evidence of the final year project as experienced by our undergraduates.