Our Work

The Buckley Group was formed to discuss issues surrounding assessment within the Hospitality, Sport, Leisure, Tourism and Events subject areas.

Position Papers:

Assessment Standards in HLST Position Paper (87kb .doc)
This position paper is the outcome of an Assessment Standards workshop, facilitated by Dr Chris Rust of the ASKe CETL and Senior Fellow of the HE Academy, which took place at Oxford Brookes University in November 2010. The workshop discussed the characteristics of final year (level six) assignments assessed at the threshold of first class work in HLST programmes.

The workshop was a response to the attention afforded in recent years to standards, the role of external examiners in this process and, indeed, the robustness of the UK honours degree classification system.

The workshop represented a disciplinary perspective on the issue and focused on the assessment of final year work at first class level. About twenty academics from across the HLST subjects and a range of UK universities met to firstly assess work in small groups and then to discuss and agree the standards of the work and the original assessment process.

The work shop concluded with further discussions about the nature of first class work at level six and how the HSLT Subject Centre and its subject community could build on the enthusiasm and the momentum of the workshop. There was broad agreement about the assessment process and outcomes of both the original markers and each others’ efforts and there was consensus on the characteristics of first class work. The workshop concluded with some thoughts on further activity in this important aspect of work.

Second Assessment Standards Workshop Position Paper (41kb .pdf)
This position paper is the outcome of the Buckley Group Assessment Standards workshop held at Oxford Brookes University on July 1st 2010. The workshop built on the process and outcomes of the first workshop and this time focused on threshold standards and involved a number of tutors marking work at around a marginal pass standard.

Third Assessment Standards Workshop Position Paper (92kb .pdf) 
This position paper is the outcome of the workshop which took place at Oxford Brookes University on 5th April 2011. During the workshop delegates considered the differences between dissertations awarded a 2.1 grade and those awarded a 2.2 grade. They also discussed these differences with a group of students who had recently completed dissertations.

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