Abstract
The Patchwork Text is an assessment strategy whereby students produce and share pieces of work during their programme. They then use these pieces as the basis of a final integrated text. This paper reports on the experience of using this strategy in a modular course structure. The idea was to try to provide formative feedback for the students who traditionally complain that all the assessment occurs at the end of the module. A surprising side-effect of the process was that students were clearly studying earlier in the module which improved the knowledge base of the classroom discussions.