Concepts and skills are developed over a semester to design an interactive computer program for a hypothetical museum exhibition. By providing structure while leaving some aspects unspecified, students make creative choices and combine skill sets, and demonstrate mastery to meet the objective of inspiring patrons.  Clear and relevant communication to the end-user is a top priority. 

For this task, students are asked to:

  • Explain the importance of modelling in science by demonstrating the skills required to produce and analyse such models, including the ability to model more complex phenomena;
  • Apply fundamental and more advanced mathematical techniques that are important to problems across a range of scientific discipline areas; Explain key concepts in computer science, design and write computer programs in the language Python, and interpret the output of these programs;
  • Communicate responses to quantitative and science-based problems in a correct, logical, mature and scientifically appropriate style.

Attached are two different versions of such an assessment item (for SCIE1000 and SCIE1100), with different contexts, and different rubric styles.  Both achieve the objectives described here.
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Details

CLASS SIZE
500+
YEAR LEVEL
First year
ASSESSMENT SECURITY
Open
SUPERVISION STATUS
Not supervised
SUBMISSION MEDIUM
Digital product
ASSESSMENT DELIVERY MODE
Digital task
AUTHENTICITY CONTEXT
Professional simulation, Work‑integrated / Work‑related