This authentic, practice-based assessment provides students with work integrated learning opportunities by way of real life engagements with external client groups. Students collaborate in groups to identify a (discipline or course specific) issue that would benefit from stakeholder engagement in the planning, implementation and evaluation of specific goals or outcomes. In the case of COMU7013, this assessment was developed as part of the Masters for Communication for Social Change program and is both underpinned by, and aimed at developing, methods of participatory development communication. Students are encouraged to work with community groups/external clients whose concerns and issues are aligned with their own, thus providing personalised learning opportunities. Students are assessed on the quality of their stakeholder engagement and their ability to produce reports and outcomes that meet the needs and communicative modes of their clients and that adhere to the conventions of the discipline or vocational setting. Students are assessed on two components, a group oral presentation and a written report submitted via turnitin, the latter of which is marked individually. Students also have to allocate a peer mark to all group members (moderated by staff if necessary).
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