She wrote: "The implication of your article – that the behaviour of the students was in some way a factor in the collapse – has caused deep offence".
The nature of the assessment determines the learning behaviour of the students as well as the teaching behaviour of teachers.
It is important to recognize that these are self-reports, the actual behaviour of the students in the use of these resources in their daily routines wasn't directly measured.
Every performance shown involves one or more competences the student has to possess to perform well, and every competence can be shown in several behaviours of the student.
In the subsequent plenary session of the tutorial group, chaired by the tutor, the professional behaviour of each student is assessed by the group.
But this comes at a time of feverish interest in the behaviour of the very top students.
Considering the group of students from year 1, the majority presumably had little intrinsic motivation to complete the formative Medici cases and this behaviour was replicated to some degree by the behaviour of the year 2 students and the Module 0 cases.
Although we considered it unlikely that commercial contract cheating services would be liable under existing UK fraud law, a different picture, one that will be uncomfortable for many, emerges when one re-reads the definition above and considers the behaviour of a student who purchases an assignment and submits it, for academic credit, as if it were their own work.
The assessment method that is currently used at Maastricht medical school requires each student to reflect on their professional behaviour and requires all members of a tutorial group (tutor and students) to provide feedback on the professional behaviour of each student, which is then recorded by the tutor on the assessment form.
