YPAD leading to Associate Fellowship of the HEA
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After completing the York Professional and Academic Development scheme (YPAD) and submitting a report of my teaching-related experience I was awarded Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. As part of my report I carried out a brief investigation into using summative assessment results to inform teaching and assessment in the next cohort. Per-question breakdown of the marks allows some rudimentary statistical analysis which can shed light on how questions could be improved or which concepts and skills might be particularly difficult for students.
I’ve enjoyed solving the 
It was a wonderful occasion to reflect on and celebrate the PhD experience with colleagues at a very special graduation ceremony organised by the University of York. Having missed my original BSc graduation back in 2000, it was great to finally wear the gown and receive the award on stage. I will always be grateful to all those people who made it possible for me to enage in these years of study, training and research.
After minor corrections, my thesis dissertation was approved and is now live at the 
I’m getting the chance to be back at the front of a class! I’ve been employed as a part-time lecturer, in order to teach part of a Masters level course on AI: Problem Solving with Search here at the University of York. I will be co-teaching with the module leader, and it involves everything from writing lectures, labs and quizzes to setting, marking and moderating the exams.