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MG455

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES

REMINDERS: 25% of your grade will be determined by your group presentation in week 10 and the slides you submit alongside it. For this group part of the summative, all group members will receive the same grade. The remainder of your grade (75%) is your INDIVIDUAL scholarly essays, as detailed below.

DEADLINE: You must submit your scholarly essay on Moodle by Friday 5^th of May 2023, by 12pm (midday).

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA: The assessment criteria that we shared with you during the course and you used to assess the formative pieces of work will also be used when grading your summative assignment, so make sure to pay attention to these criteria.

In-depth scholarly essay:

In the second part of the assignment (no more than 2,000 words), you will zoom in on one particular aspect of the course concepts (e.g., a bias, a specific debiasing or choice architecture technique, a step in the Decision Canvas, etc.), which you as a developing behavioural scientist have found intriguing and important (be it as a ‘buddy’ or as a ‘decision maker’). This is done in a scholarly and rigorous manner.

We recommend that you choose your topic for essay based on which part of the course you found most interesting (either in the lectures or during your groupwork). If you choose a topic based on something you did in your groupwork, make sure to discuss in a context that goes beyond your groupwork. The essay is NOT an extension on your groupwork (i.e., choose a context that is unrelated to your groupwork). You may use a similar topic as the one you used in the thought piece if you want. If you would like to choose a different topic, you are most welcome to do so as long as the core concept that you want to discuss was covered in the seminars or readings of MG455.

Questions you might find helpful to ask yourself when ‘scoping down’ for the essay:

1. What is the main aspect of the course or the Decision Canvas (in the problem structuring, in judgement identification, in the bias-spotting, in the debiasing/nudging/choice architecting) that you found important, useful, new, or counterintuitive – and why?

2. What context would you like to explore using the concept that you chose? How does the concept you are discussing fit into this context, and why does this matter?

3. On what previous work (either theory or experiments) does your essay build? What behavioural research has been conducted to support the argument you are making? Here, you cite research using in-text scholarly references (see below how to write scholarly references properly).

4. Are there any new studies on the topic (here you search new original papers beyond what we gave you in the course)?

In this essay, you will use scholarly references to defend your argument in more detail and argue for its validity, highlighting limitations as well as future research needed. This is your chance to show your knowledge of behavioural decision science and how creatively you can rely on scholarly literature to support your arguments.

The essay needs to be an in-depth exploration of one concept (meaning that you cannot talk about decision-making in general, or just write about a series of unrelated contexts).

IMPORTANT: It is essential that you use in-text scholarly references in the second part of the summative assignment. You will include the full reference list at the end of the assignment (exclude this from your word count).  Here you can see how to properly write in-text scholarly references: http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/01/writing-in-text-citations-in-apa-style.html