Curriculum Design Symposium: The Hidden Curriculum - Evaluating an online pre-university course for ‘alternative’ (contextual) offer holders: Considering assumptions in curriculum design

This research workshop explores ways in which pre-university provision for ‘alternative’ offer holders might be evaluated effectively and focuses on how linguistic aspects of ‘hidden curricula’ may need particular attention. Drawing on our experiences of designing running and evaluating Preparation for Academic Study a University College London self-access online course for pre-university ‘alternative’ offer holders we invite participants to critically discuss ways in which the effectiveness of such a course can be measured and to share experiences and perceptions of similar initiatives offered by other higher education institutions.