This document summarizes a project that involved students collaborating with faculty on research related to employability-integrated assessment across the curriculum. The students helped with various aspects of the research process like distributing questionnaires, facilitating focus groups, conducting interviews, analyzing data, and writing up findings. Working together on the research helped the students see themselves not just as learners but also as partners, researchers, critical friends, colleagues, change agents, and co-producers with the potential to help transform learning and teaching practices.

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Learning in partnership: not us and them, just ‘us’
Kety Faina, Gordon Heggie, Jade McCarroll, Neil McPherson, Paul McShane, John Melia, Donna Russell, Iqra Tusadiq
The Project Mapping employability-integrated assessment across the curriculum: enhancing student awareness of employability
What we did
data collection
distributed questionnaires
facilitated focus groups
data input to spss
carried out 1-1 interviews
thematic analysis
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conceptualized the data
presented findings writing up
descriptive statistical analysis
Who we are
data collation
partners
researchers critical friends
colleagueslearners
change agents
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“‘students as change agents’ explicitly supports a view of
the student as ‘active collaborator’ and ‘co-producer’,
with the potential for transformation”
(Dunne, 2011, 4)
Agents of change
I now feel that it's easier to make
connections between skills developed
by doing different types of
assessments and the skills sought out
by employers
The tasks have been interesting
because they gave an actual taste
of what research is like, on all its
levels, from organisation to
practical issues such as funding or
ethical approval
Touchstones
The research/inquiry based
learning focus…has been great and
grown my confidence in relation to
independent study
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Being part of this project has given
me, as a student, the opportunity
to participate in an actual research
and apply what I have been taught
in class in a way that has enhanced
my abilities as a producer and
change agent