Veronica Spencer
Faculty of Humanities
Discipline: Film Studies
Focus: To develop students’ assessment literacy and self-evaluation abilities
Film Studies as taught at the University of Southampton is a conceptual programme, engaging with film theory, history, industry, and entertainment in a national and global context. Students studying Film often enter with good A levels in cognate Humanities subjects but without having studied Film before. We held informal discussion groups with students in first-year seminars in semester one, 2016-17. As a result, we decided to design our project to develop the students’ assessment literacy to provide them with firm support for their entry into a new discipline, to improve their outcomes, and eventually to lead to better self-regulation.
Using the EAT framework, the project was structured in three parts to investigate:
Three workshops corresponding to each of the above areas were held with the students during semester two. The participants completed four detailed survey forms at the start of the semester and the same forms at its end. The data analysis will inform the second stage of the project for 2017-18.