Assessment on the ePPSME units uses a Patchwork Text Methodology. In the final week of a unit learners complete a short narrative that draws together the learning on a unit and shows how they have achieved the learning outcomes for that unit. Where a learner chooses to complete sufficient units to claim 20 HE credits a summative assessment is submitted consisting of a narrative that draws the learning on the ePPSME units together, each of which is equivalent to 5 HE credits at a specified level. 

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The patchwork text is based on principles developed by Richard Winter.

Selected references:

• Scoggins, J. & Winter, R. (1999) The patchwork text: a coursework format for education as critical understanding, Teaching in Higher Education, 4(4), 485 - 499. 
• Winter, R. (2003) Contextualising the patchwork text: addressing problems of coursework assessment in higher education, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 40(2), 112 - 122. 
• Winter, R., Buck, A. & Sobiechowska, P. (1999) Professional experience and the investigative imagination. The art of reflective writing. (London, Routledge). 

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