Report topics
The following topics are suitable for short reports (approximately 1200 words)
1. Write a report on the library skills of students. In your report:
a. Outline why students need library skills.
b. Assess to what extent students possess these skills.
c. Recommend one (ONLY) way in which your library could help students find
relevant sources for their assignments.
2. Present the following in report format:
a. Describe what is meant by critical reading skills.
b. Outline why it is considered important for students to possess critical
reading skills.
c. Examine briefly whether the need for critical reading is the same across all
courses.
3. Address the following issues and present your findings in report format:
a. Describe what is meant by plagiarism.
b. Examine the extent of plagiarism among students at university.
c. Outline the special features of internet plagiarism.
d. Make one (ONLY) recommendation to your university on how to use the
internet to reduce plagiarism.
4. Write a report on the factors that contribute to plagiarism. Assess to what extent
students alone can be held responsible for the existence of plagiarism.
5. Present a report on the following issues:
a. Examine why universities have developed group work as a form of
assessment.
b. Examine the way group work can develop a student’s (transferable) work
related skills.
6. Present your findings in report format in relation to the following:
a. Discuss in detail, the problem of the “free rider” within student assessment
groups.
b. Recommend to the lecturer in your course, one (ONLY) means of
minimising the problem of the “free rider”.
7. Write a report covering the following:
a. Discuss the significance of examinations at university.
b. Describe test anxiety.
c. Outline the affects that test anxiety can have on results.
d. Examine TWO (only) factors that can increase test anxiety.
e. Make two (ONLY) recommendations to students on how to reduce test
anxiety.