ASSESSMENT BRIEF AND MARKING RUBRIC

MSc Business Psychology

Module title: Health and Wellbeing at Work

Assessment task: Prepared presentation

Word count limit: 1000 words +/- 10% (excluding references)

Assessment guidelines

Component 1: Models that have been proven effective in the past should be reported in a conference-like presentation or a presentation given to organizational representatives (depending on your choice based on the topics covered so far). In the slides you need to report:

• What interventions have been implemented in the past around the topic? What proved to be successful and what failed?

• What are the recommendations for future research and practice?

Your presentation should not exceed more than 10 minutes when delivered and should contain between 10 and 15 PowerPoint slides with annotated notes.

General Guidance – Important Your assignment should be a PowerPoint processed presentation (handwritten assignments are not accepted), using Times New Roman, with numbered slides. Note this is a presentation supported by academic research so you should adhere to the appropriate referencing guidance. The majority of references should come from primary sources (e.g. journal articles, conference papers, reports, etc.) although you can also utilise area specific textbooks. You must ensure that you use the APA style of referencing. Please indicate the word count length at the end of your assignment. More information and guidelines are provided at the relevant section below.

Structure of your presentation and what you need to report in your slides should follow the format identified below:

Title of Section	Criteria			Marks
					Awarded
Cover page		1 slide			N/A
Overview		1 slide			N/A
contents page		Clear signalling of presentation content
Introduction	●  Brief  introduction  into  the	problem	and
	●	rationale for the intervention
	Sets the scene of the topic	‘Signpost’	the
		reader to the overall shape of the presentation.
		Clear defnition and explanation of relevant	/10
		terms / main discussion points
Main body and	●	What interventions have been implemented in
discussion		the past around the topic? What proved to be
including possible	●	successful and what failed?
limitations of	The background of the systematic literature
intervention		review,  i.e.  why  is  it  important  to review
		interventions in this particular area/ around this
	●	particular topic?
	Defnition of the topic and negative/ positive
	●	outcomes for individuals/ groups/ organizations	/50
	Study characteristics: how many studies have
		been reviewed and included and how many
		excluded? What were the samples? Number of
		respondents and types of organisations in the
		reviewed studies. Peculiarities of the samples
		gender, age, and country-wise.
Recommendations	●	Practical  implications  and  implications	for	/15
for future practice		future research
and research

Conclusion	●	Ability  to  draw  main  points  of  discussion
		together
	●	Linkage of conclusions to title	/15
Presentation &	●	Correct use of grammar, punctuation and
Referencing		spelling
	●  Appropriate writing style (use of “third”
		person)
	●  The majority of references are from academic	/10
		journals and primary sources
	●  References reported accurately in essay text
	●  References reported accurately in attached
	●	‘References’ section
	Reference list

The marking criteria will be:

• ability to reflect critically on the way you research;

• ability to use libraries and electronic sources;

• ability to think critically about what you are reading;

• understanding the research process;

understanding the writing process