Module EFPM910 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
EFPM910: Education Policy
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The content of the module may change to reflect emerging and developing theory, research and practices in the field of education policy. Nevertheless it will consider key questions and perspectives on education policy including:
- Characterising education policy
- Localised and elite policy making
- Educational centralisation and decentralisation
- Education policy transfer, travel and re-contextualisation
- Reforming teacher professionalism and teacher identities
- Conceptions of children and young people in education policy
- Education policy and social justice
- Large scale educational reforms including state intervention, New Public Management and privatisation
- The internationalisation of education policy
- Educational policy and students, teachers/lecturers and education institutions
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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30.5 | 269.5 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 30.5 | 30 hours of in-class sessions (10 x 3 hours) and 1 academic tutorial (0.5 hours) |
Guided Independent Study | 119.5 | Directed study (e.g. web-based activities, preparing for academic tutorial, preparing for seminars, responding to seminar activities, contributing to online activities/discussion) |
Guided Independent Study | 50 | Directed reading related to topics discussed in the module |
Guided Independent Study | 100 | Preparing for assignments and further independent reading |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Policy case study | 1000 words | 1,2,3,5,7,8 | Written tutor and peer feedback |
Critically reflective response to an education policy development | 1000 words | 4 | Written tutor and peer feedback |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Written assignment | 100 | 5000 words | 1,2,3,5,6,8 | Written tutor feedback |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Written assignment | Written assignment (5000 words) | 1,2,3,5,6,8 | 6 weeks |