In addition, teaching packs include teaching material such as OHPs. Study guides covering the objectives, learning outcomes and assessment methods will be included at a later date. To a large extent, these are self-contained packs, but they often contain references to and direct students towards set textbooks. Operation Students are assessed on their performance on problems and assignments in the resource materials. Students engage with the materials because they are seen as part of the normal scheme of work.
Any additional support is provided through the usual seminar and tutorial system.
The effectiveness of the materials is monitored by assessing student performance on examples, tutorial problems and assignments contained in the RBL materials. Students are able to evaluate their own performance, and academic staff monitor progress as part of their normal teaching strategies. This is part of the accepted teaching and learning practice, established over a number of years, and the system does not therefore impose additional requirements on academic staff or students. In using and promoting RBL, tutors carry out many of their normal duties and functions - namely, providing lectures, running seminars and giving individual tuition. In essence, RBL has helped to maintain effective teaching and learning within a context of diminishing teaching resources.