Variation in in-class assessment

A case study demonstrating an initiative to improve performance attendance and student learning in tutorials in a first-year Economics module. At Swansea University’s EC-100 tutorials worksheets are regularly distributed prior to the session this initiative added an assessment component to six of the eight tutorials. Students are provided with worksheets approximately two weeks ahead of their tutorial. Thirty to thirty-five minutes of the tutorial is then spent going through the worksheet before an unseen short question sheet is circulated. This question sheet contains a small number of questions based upon the topic(s) covered in the worksheet.