Applying the Mexican Hat approach to GEES subjects: an evaluation

The Mexican Hat Approach (MHA) is a learning intervention to help record and monitor levels of progress, participation and achievement during study. At Southampton Solent University, a combination of the MHA with an activity-based approach was found to help tutors to identify students potentially ‘at risk’ but not to fully enable students to make robust self-assessment judgements. A refinement of the model could be developed that nurtures better reflective capabilities within students.