Year Mean Mark (%) Change from Before 2013-17 ( before ) 58.32 N / A 2017-18 ( after ) 72.39 14.08 2018-19 ( after ) 77.56 19.24
Table 3 : The effects of the changes to the module on the student marks for the ‘ Program Design ’ assignment . Results for students who did not engage with one or more assignments are not included in the analysis .
Year |
Mean Mark (%) |
Change from Before |
2013-15 ( before ) |
58.32 |
N / A |
2015-16 ( after ) |
69.37 |
13.72 |
2016-17 ( after ) |
65.29 |
9.65 |
2017-18 ( after ) |
71.01 |
15.37 |
Table 4 : The effects of the changes to the module on the student marks for the exam . Results for students who did not engage with one or more assignments are not included in the analysis .
Assignment |
N Before |
N After |
Mean Before |
Mean After |
P Value |
H & S Tasks |
34 |
43 |
57.02 |
76.38 |
0.0002 |
Program Design |
57 |
35 |
58.32 |
75.05 |
0.0001 |
Exam |
13 |
61 |
55.64 |
68.33 |
0.0175 |
Table 5 : The number of samples N , mean marks and P values obtained for each assessment before and after the module changes using an unpaired t test . Note that the ‘ Range of Hardware and Software Tasks ’ results for the 2016-17 cohort are not included in ‘ before ’ due to changes in the assessment caused by unexpected staff absence that year . Results for students who did not engage with one or more assignments are not included in the analysis . Results for 2018-19 were only available for the ‘ Range of Hardware and Software Tasks ’ and ‘ Program Design ’.
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