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Figure 3: The revised breakdown of assessments for FYO-00096. Assignments relating to theory are coloured in red, while those relating to programming are coloured in blue.
Year Male Female 2013-14 85.71 % 14.29 % 2014-15 100.00 % 0.00 % 2015-16 80.65 % 19.35 % 2016-17 93.10 % 6.90 % 2017-18 80.00 % 20.00 % 2018-19 92.86 % 7.14 %
Table 1: The percentage of FYO-00096 students identifying as male compared to the percentage of students identifying as female, 2013- 2019.
Year
Mean Mark(%)
Change from Before
2013-16( before)
57.02
N / A
2017-18( after)
74.98
17.96
2018-19( after)
77.29
20.28
Table 2: The effects of the changes to the module on the student marks for the‘ Range of Hardware and Software Tasks’ assignment. Note that the 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.
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