Engaging Speech Pathology Students with an Authentic Task
Dr Leigha Dark | Senior Lecturer
Speech Pathology | School of Health Sciences
Summary
The Subject Coordinator, Dr Leigha Dark, wanted first year students to engage in an authentic task relating to their future profession. The students were asked to prepare a poster educating the community about one of a range of speech pathology practice areas. The poster will be showcased to a hypothetical community audience.
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Smartphones and EPAs for Final Year Medical Students
Professor Stephen Tobin | Associate Dean
School of Medicine
Summary
To assist with final year medicine student hands-on assessment during the COVID crisis, and to enable these students to be part of a supplementary medical workforce, entrustable professional activities (EPAs) were developed as assessment tasks. These consisted of tasks that junior doctors in hospitals do, and were implemented for volunteer final year students under supervision. Eportfolio software was used to keep a record of activities and supervisor feedback. This authentic assessment task provided a structure to facilitate feedback and continual improvement.
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Research Project in Cardiac Sonography Multi-media Project
Dr Paul Stoodley | Senior Lecturer
School of Medicine (Blacktown Clinical School and Research Centre)
Summary
Final year students in the Master of Clinical Sonography complete a clinical sonography research project in their capstone unit. Due to COVID revisions this activity was completed online. Images and interpretations, and presentations, generated by the capstone projects were included in a multimedia resource for use in teaching and learning activities by earlier year students.
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Designing Law Apps for Access to Justice
John Juriansz & Grace Borsellino, School of Law
Summary
This unit provides students with an authentic learning and assessment activity within a partnership pedagogy framework. External community-based partners articulate an organisational need that requires a solution. This generates an authentic task that students, working in teams, address with an artificial intelligence system-based solution. Authenticity is enhanced by a final assessment presentation to a panel that includes industry and client-based representatives.
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