An assessment structured around investigating questions or solving authentic, often ill‑structured problems, requiring students to apply disciplinary knowledge, research, and critical thinking. e.g. fieldwork, primary data collection, mixed‑methods investigation, case‑based analysis, scenario‑based problem solving, diagnostic reasoning tasks.

Examining Cases: Non-ideal Medical Ethics

Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

Examining Cases: Non-ideal Medical Ethics

This end-of-semester examination involves providing students with a court ruling on a medical case that most will not have come across until that point. Students are expected to read the case under exam conditions, and bring their learning over the course of the semester to bear on their interpretation of the salient medical and legal points raised, determining their ethical implications. This is then tested over a number of multiple choice questions delivered via Examsoft.

Post-graduate
Class size of 100-500
Secure
Clinical Case Presentation

Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

Clinical Case Presentation

The Clinical Case Presentation (CCP) is an exercise in which students demonstrate their skills in assessing a patient's problem/s, with specific emphasis on the relevant clinical and investigative findings, the diagnosis and the current and potential future management plans. Furthermore, the student is expected to read around the surgically relevant or related aspects of the case and be expected to discuss these with the examiner during the presentation.

Post-graduate
Class size of 10-20
Secure
Interactive Scenario for Professional and Ethical Decision Making

Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

Interactive Scenario for Professional and Ethical Decision Making

Real world interactive scenario for professional and ethical decision making challenges. Built for 4th year Dentistry students and assessed with a personal reflection driven by targeted questions, and with a marking matrix embedded.

Third year
Class size of 80-100
Open
Reflective Essay on Refugee Artefacts and Refugee Law

Business, Economics and Law

Reflective Essay on Refugee Artefacts and Refugee Law

The assessment promotes critical reflection utilising refugee artefacts to enable law and politics students to connect their theoretical knowledge and understanding of international refugee law and human rights law with the 'lived experience' of certain asylum seekers detained offshore on Nauru or Manus Island. The assessment encourages students to reflect on their own learning experience by identifying and explaining the connections between selected refugee artefacts (including letters from the Burnside/Durham Collection in the Fryer Library, semi-autobiographical books, radio podcasts, cartoons, documentaries or op-ed newspaper pieces) and refugee and human rights law.

Post-graduate
Class size of 40-60
Open
Industry Partnered Feasibility Analysis

Business, Economics and Law

Industry Partnered Feasibility Analysis

This is a live industry assessment that required students to work on a feasibility analysis for an innovation for a Tourism or Hospitality organisation. Students worked in self assigned teams of four to develop a 4000 word report that provided our industry partners with a market analysis, an analysis of the Political, Economic, Social and Technological (PEST) environments and recommendations as to how best develop the innovation and take it to market. This WIL industry partnered assessment resulted in the development of student / industry relationships as students were encouraged to engage with their allocated industry partner to guide the focus of their reports.

Second year
Class size of 100-500
Open
Authentic Assessment in Medicine and Public Health

Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

Authentic Assessment in Medicine and Public Health

Authentic assessment, group / team work, environmental impact on public health, improving health outcomes, vlogging, scaffolding, presentation, applying learning to practice, linking course materials and learning activities with the learning objectives.

Post-graduate
Class size of 500+
Open
Practical Industry Relevant Investment Report & Model

Business, Economics and Law

Practical Industry Relevant Investment Report & Model

This assessment is based on the work that a typical 1st year to 5th year graduate would do as an investment analyst. They are required to work in a team of four and complete extensive research and analysis of a company, it's industry and competitors. Then develop a rigorous financial model to value the company and write an in depth report for an investment committee to recommend buying or selling this investment.

Second year
Class size of 100-500
Open
Brand Strategy Audit

Business, Economics and Law

Brand Strategy Audit

Student teams will practice with and apply our brand strategy model and methods to a real world brand of their choosing. The project involves qualitative and quantitative consumer research, so that students learn brand analysis not based on the students' own opinions of the brand but on the evidence of consumer perceptions of the brand. Students analyse the current brand strategy and recommend a complete brand strategy plan. This project will help students learn the theory, will help students understand how it is applied, and will help students acquire the skill of how to do a brand audit.

Post-graduate
Class size of 100-500
Secure
Creative Media Production Exercise

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Creative Media Production Exercise

Completed in pairs, this assessment sees students work collaboratively to produce a creative media output and an accompanying rationale detailing and justifying the stylistic choices made (in the case of MSTU1001 students produce a section of film storyboard). Students are marked on their grasp of relevant conventions and theories.

Second year, Third year
Class size of 100-500
Open
Group Presentation with Creative Peer Feedback

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Group Presentation with Creative Peer Feedback

In small groups students prepare an oral presentation in which they draw on key disciplinary outputs to discuss a topic relevant to the course content. Additionally, students must individually provide peer feedback/reflections for two other group presentations, the form of which is to be decided by the student.

Second year
Class size of 20-40
Secure