Table 3

Thematic analysis

Main themeSub-themeVerbatim quotes
Intentional skills focus
  • self-efficacy

  • reflection

  • more focus on skills from the start yeah so it’s not like a rushing at the end (P2)

  • more confident (P1)

  • you know like the Gibbs and stuff we’ve never come across them before (P5)

  • more around like employability (P4)

  • it’s more focused (P1)

  • as a self-reflection thing we’ve never had any theories and skills mentioned before (P5)

  • you’ve aided the process of being able to justify every step of the way in order to establish where you are right at the beginning (P3)

Future focused 
  • preparing us for our future (P1)

  • more focused on skills from the start and future work (P2)

  • where do you actually want to be like in your career in five years’ time how are you going to get there (P5)

Practical applications
  • strong links with work

  • yeah I don’t know if it’s because we’re in person but we actually like learning stuff [reference to Covid] (P6)

  • ability to draw data and information from industry research (P7)

Linking skills and the PBL focus
  • WBL pedagogy

  • theory

  • didn’t give us the answer (P4)

  • there’s a lot more theories (P5)

  • coming up with solutions through scholarly journals (P7)

  • actually explain how all of it comes together (P5)

  • how do I integrate that (P3)

  • so I think this module has been a million times better at explaining how do we bring that into the project (P2)

Delivery
  • blended learning

  • student centric

  • we’ve collaborated (P2)

  • I watch all the lectures (P5)

  • overall goal of the assessment was yeah at the beginning (P5)

  • I feel like this is the only module that is actually like applied to the degree apprenticeship (P5)

  • having a half an hour like every week to talk about skills was really good because we’ve not spoken about skills in our other ones (P6)

  • implemented earlier on like in year one (P7)

  • from our class … sometimes when we’ve spoken about skills … it doesn’t really make sense (P8)

Source(s): Generated by authors

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