business schools
Business Schools Need More Than Grades
Help students demonstrate their development, build their professional identity and evidence the capabilities that matter beyond graduation.
Gain richer insight into student progression while supporting programme quality, Assurance of Learning and accreditation.
From Grades to Graduate Capability
Business Schools are expected to demonstrate more than academic attainment. While most institutions have frameworks that define the capabilities, attributes and outcomes they want graduates to achieve, evidencing how students develop these capabilities over time remains a challenge. Students may complete their degree with strong academic results but still struggle to articulate their achievements, strengths and professional identity.
Valuable learning takes place across modules, projects, placements, leadership activities and personal experiences, often making development difficult to capture and demonstrate.
PebblePad helps Business Schools connect learning across years of study, experiences and programmes, creating a richer picture of student achievement and programme impact.
Helping Students See Their Development
AACSB-accredited Kingston Business School embedded PebblePad workbooks into the curriculum to help students collect evidence, reflect on their experiences and better understand their development.
“Students can really see their progression.”
Becky Lees
Director of Learning & Teaching, Kingston Business School
See how Kingston Business School increased student reflection by 7×
THE APPROACH
Support Students, Evidence Progression and Quality
Business Schools face three connected challenges. Here's how PebblePad helps you address each one.
THE STUDENT CHALLENGE
Help Students Demonstrate More Than Grades
Demonstrate value
beyond results
Help learners capture evidence of their experiences, reflect on their development and build confidence in their growing capabilities.
Reflection
with purpose
Encourage students to connect learning experiences, identify strengths and recognise their development over time.
Build professional
identity
Help learners articulate their achievements, experiences and aspirations as they prepare for future opportunities.
Evidence beyond
assessment
Create richer evidence of student development that extends beyond grades and module results.
Connect learning
across the journey
Bring together curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular experiences into a single picture of growth and achievement.
Becky Lees
Director of Learning & Teaching
Kingston Business School
THE INSIGHT CHALLENGE
Understand Progression Across the Student Journey
Move beyond
performance snapshots
Understand how students develop throughout their programme, gaining a richer picture of learning than moment-in-time assessment provides.
Longitudinal evidence
of growth
Track development across modules, years and experiences, building a continuous record of student growth across the whole degree.
Deeper student
insight
Discover how learners engage with concepts, experiences and professional development activities as they progress through their programme.
Identify
learning gaps
Use reflection and portfolio evidence to reveal learning gaps and uncover opportunities for curriculum enhancement across cohorts.
Inform continuous improvement
Support evidence-based decision making with authentic student evidence that informs programme enhancement and continuous improvement initiatives.
Becky Lees
Kingston Business School
THE QUALITY CHALLENGE
Evidence Programme Quality for Assurance of Learning
Evidence that
withstands scrutiny
Collect, review and evidence student achievement consistently across programmes, meeting growing expectations around development, effectiveness and continuous improvement.
Assurance of
Learning
Link authentic student evidence to programme outcomes, learning goals and institutional priorities across every year of the programme.
Align with accreditation
expectations
Build an evidence base aligned with the expectations of AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA and your internal quality review processes.
Demonstrate programme impact
Show how students develop capabilities, confidence and professional readiness throughout their studies, providing credible evidence of programme impact.
Consistent implementation at scale
Use reusable workbooks, templates and frameworks to create consistent experiences across programmes, modules and cohorts without redesign.
Becky Lees
Director of Learning & Teaching
Kingston Business School
Trusted by Leading Business Schools
AACSB has featured thought leadership from Kingston Business School on graduate capability development, reflection and employability, highlighting the growing need for business schools to evidence student growth beyond academic achievement.
Victoria Walsh
Head of the Department of Management AACSB-accredited Kingston Business School
Data You Can Trust
PebblePad is built on secure cloud infrastructure with single sign-on (SSO) and role-based permissions, ensuring student data remains secure, accessible and under institutional control.
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specialists today.
Discover how PebblePad helps students evidence their development, build confidence in their capabilities and prepare for lifelong success.