Assessment brief
Module Code
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EDUC2108
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Module title
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Managing Classroom Behaviour
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Assignment title
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Essay title: Managing Students’ Behaviour in Schools
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Assignment type and description
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For this assignment, you are required to write an essay by considering the following question:
How should teachers manage students’ behaviour in schools, and why?
In addressing the above question, you are required to critically Analyse and evaluate the government guidance (see the reference below) for headteachers and school staff on managing students’ behaviour in schools:
Department for Education (DFE). 2022. Behaviour in schools: advice for headteachers and school staff 2022. [Online]. [Accessed 11th September 2024]. Available from: Behaviour in schools - advice for headteachers and school staff (education.gov.uk)
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Anonymous/Named
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Anonymous
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Rationale
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This essay-based assignment is designed to allow students to critically write about Behaviour Guidance/policy/ issues and ideologies, using UK government’s behaviour guidance document, engaging with relevant empirical academic literature and by using theories on behaviour covered in the module to deconstruct and illuminate the debate around Managing Students’ Behaviour in Schools.
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Word limit and guidance
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Essay (2000 words)
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Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in this assignment
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AMBER: AI tools can be used in an assistive preparatory role only
You are permitted to use AI tools for specific defined processes within the assessment. See below for further details.
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Weighting
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100%
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Draft
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The deadline submitting your essay (2 pages) plan for feedback is Tuesday by 9:00 am, 15th April, 2025
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Deadline or date of assessment
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Submit your final assignment through Turnitin on Minerva by noon on Thursday 15th May 2025.
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Submission method
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Via Minerva
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Feedback provision
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Feedback on draft
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Learning outcomes assessed
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On completion of the module students should:
1. Understand how theories of learning can be used to analyse children’s behaviour and the strategies for managing behaviour
2. Know about current government and school policies and understand the rationale for them
3. Understand that children’s behaviour is a result of a complex range of influences
4. Know and understand some strategies for managing children’s behaviour
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Assignment guidance
Word count: 2000 words – Essay
Essay (2000 words) You are expected to show that you have engaged with content that has been covered in module sessions and to do plenty of reading from academic literature using the extensive module reading list (and beyond if you wish). We would like you to show that you can develop an argument and use supporting evidence to good effect. In particular the candate should address the following rubric criteria
Knowledge/understanding: make sure you have done extensive reading from academic sources and show that he/she has critically engaged with the concepts and theory we have covered in the module;
· Argument: make sure that you have a clear line of argument and are using source materials effectively to support this;
· Effective communication: You need to be writing in an academic style, using effective language. The candidate needs to structure your assignment in a logical way;
Meeting the requirements of the assignment: making sure that you keep the essay question in mind so that your answer is relevant, pertinent and interesting
Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
This assessment is categorised as ‘amber’ according to the University’s Generative AI guidance for taught students. This designation is in line with the ‘amber’ specification that ‘you are permitted to use AI tools for specific defined processes within the assessment … as specified by the tutor’ (Guidance version 1.1, 11/2023, p. 10).
The purposes for which you may use Gen AI in this assessment are to generate ideas and to stimulate your own thinking; as a support tutor, for example to generate feedback on your work; to translate parts of source texts (words, phrases or sentences); or to proof-read your assignment text.
If you do use Gen AI, you must state clearly how you have used it, specifying the following:
· name and version of the Gen AI system used e.g. ChatGPT-4.0.
· publisher (company that made the AI system) e.g. OpenAI.
· the URL of the AI system.
You may not use Gen AI to produce sentences or longer stretches of your assignment text. As an example, you may use an app such as Grammarly to proof-read your assignment text, but you may not use such tools to write or re-write text.
If you are in any doubt about the use of Gen AI, please consult your module leader.
Supplementary guidance
Please refer to the assessment section on Minerva
General guidance
Follow this link to the skills@library academic skills resources: Academic skills | Library | University of Leeds
Assessment criteria and process
Your assignment will be assessed against the four module learning outcomes:
as well as the undergraduate assessment criteria (available in Annex 10.1 of the Code of Practice on Assessment).
Please also familiarise yourself with the information on second marking, moderation, etc. available in the Code of Practice on Assessment.
Presentation and referencing
For the essay, please cite sources in the text and write a reference list at the end. For references and citations
It is extremely important to differentiate between your own words and those of others when writing an essay.Failure to do so can lead to accusations of plagiarism, which is considered a serious academic offence.
If your work is found to be plagiarised, you may fail the module and, in some cases, fail the entire course without the option to resubmit. I mention this not to cause alarm, but to stress the importance of developing good referencing habits. Always give clear references to your sources of information.
You must develop the habit of recording bibliographic information while you read. This practice will save
you time and effort when you write, and it will ensure that you give proper credit to your sources. Referencing systems work in two parts: the brief references that you make within the text; and complete references to books and articles at the end of a piece of work. The list of references at the end is called References and should include full details of all the sources you have quoted or referred to within your essay.
Citations in the text: Give the author's surname and publication date in brackets at an appropriate point in
the sentence. Page numbers are helpful but not essential, except in the case of quotations, when they should always be given. Citations should be included as part of the relevant sentence, so a full stop would go after
the brackets. This applies to books, chapters from edited books, and articles. The University Library website
has several excellent online resources on referencing: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/skills-referencing.
Harvard referencing: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/skills-referencing-harvard
• The reference list is written in alphabetical order by surname.
• Surnames to be written in lowercase, e.g. SMITH, R. will be Smith, R.
• No inversion of initials for 2nd author, e.g. KANE, M. and W. TROCHIM will be Kane, M. and
Trochim, W.
• If there are more than two authors include “and” before the final authors
• Brackets are not used in the reference list.
• Commas to be included in the Harvard in-text citation, e.g. (Smith, 2008) (Smith, 2008, p.3).
The University Library website has a list of examples showing how you can include different kinds of
references in your text and you should make sure that you look at it:
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/311/referencing/38/citing_quotations_harvard_style/1.
For modules in the School of Education students should use the official University of Leeds version of the Harvard referencing style. (called leeds Harvard). Guidance on how to source citations within the text and how to reference different types of material is available on the referencing pages of the Library website. Marking of all submitted coursework will be informed by this guidance and will correspond to the style. outlined on the Library’s referencing website pages.