Skills for Success: Student-Focused, Chemistry-Based, Skills-Developing, Open-Ended Project Work

Chemistry graduates follow many different career paths.
Skills
for Success allows students to develop professional skills of relevance
to their ambitions by choosing project work from a range varying both
in chemistry content and nature of activity. Students apply for a
project, do their project, and reflect on what they have learned throughout.
This design incentivizes good quality application and personal reflection
and allows for ready customization of project work both by students
and module conveners. Projects have minimal staff input affording
students responsibility for the direction and output of their work.
Assessment enables students to perform in application, project, and
reflection phases. Students make good use of the choice aspect of
Skills for Success. They take responsibility for their work and excel
doing so, and they develop critical reflection skills. Student evaluation
comments are generally positive and appreciative of the nature of
the work.