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Video Experiment

Assessment method

Video Experiment

Likened to a video essay, this technique sees students design and conduct an individual practical or experiential experiment based on course principles, documenting it (including background, rationale, results and implications) in a 10 minute YouTube video. Videos are edited and published online, with some being potentially translated into scholarly publications.

Second year, Third year
Class size of 40-60
Medium security
Video Presentation

Group

Video Presentation

In small groups students create a short YouTube video production communicating an otherwise complex or scholarly argument (developed out of an essay assessment item) in a form appropriate to an open audience. Ideally scaffolded with reflexive assessment items, this technique emphasises key workplace skills in production, messaging and interpersonal communication.

Third year
Class size of 80-100
Medium security
Group
Virtual Business Enterprise Business Plan Assignment

Work-related, Group

Virtual Business Enterprise Business Plan Assignment

The Virtual Business Enterprise (VBE) is a digital learning resource consisting of a number of small retail businesses. Each semester student groups are allocated a VBE business and these groups 'trade' in 2 sessions across the semester. After each session, a complete set of financial statements is generated for each business. The final set of financial statements is used as a starting point for the business plan assignment linked to the VBE exercise.

First year
Class size of 500+
Medium security
Work-related, Group
Visual Analysis

Assessment method

Visual Analysis

Students complete a short (800 word) analysis of a visual text of relevance to their discipline, including photographs or artworks. Rather than simply describing the image or artwork, students are expected to critically engage with the visual stimuli and discuss it using themes and concepts covered throughout the course.

Second year
Class size of 20-40
Medium security
VIVA Vocce Examination to Test Clinical Reasoning

Work-related

VIVA Vocce Examination to Test Clinical Reasoning

In order to assess student preparedness for the transition to the clinical-phase of the BVSc, students are assessed by a VIVA Vocce examination at the end of their 3rd year. The VIVA examination is a one-hour examination split between a written and oral component. Exam content is highly integrated and assesses content taught from each of the five 3rd year BVSc courses taught. Students are assessed against a standard rubric for their ability to identify problems, pathologic processes that may explain these problems, diagnostics, diagnoses, therapeutics, as well as professional communication.

Third year
Class size of 100-500
High security
Work-related
Weekly Blogs

Assessment method

Weekly Blogs

Delivered instead of weekly tutorials, students construct weekly Blackboard blog posts responding to a question and critically addressing key theoretical underpinnings from readings. Designed to elicit theoretically rich conversations, students use written styles similar to those from popular online forums as a means to participate in collegiate debates beyond academia.

First year, Second year, Third year
Class size of 100-500
Medium security
Wiki Activity

Group

Wiki Activity

Informed by an active learning pedagogy, this technique sees students co-create an online wiki to which contributions are individually marked. Students work collegiately to prosecute an overall argument that responds to a set question, but receive marks for the quality of their individual input; which addresses potential discrepancies in contribution.

First year, Second year
Class size of 100-500
Medium security
Group
Work-based Multimodal Assessment

Work-related

Work-based Multimodal Assessment

Students submit an argumentative piece on a contemporary topic relevant to their discipline of study. Pending staff approval, students can submit this assessment in a number of written or multimodal formats such as an editorial for The Conversation, a government report, or a short audio-visual documentary.

Third year
Class size of 60-80
Medium security
Work-related
Workplace Learning Portfolio

Work-related, Sequence

Workplace Learning Portfolio

In Phase 2 (the clinical years) of the MD program in the Faculty of Medicine, students collect evidence of observed practice of core clinical skills - Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX), Direct Observed Procedural Skills (DOPS) and Compulsory Observed Procedural Skills (COPS). They also lodge Clinical Participation Assessments for each clinical rotation. The overarching aims of the Workplace Learning Portfolio course are intern readiness, to be observed practicing core skills and receive feedback, and to use that feedback to continue to grow and develop.

Post-graduate
Class size of 100-500
High security
Work-related, Sequence
Writing Project: Development Process and Final Submission

Peer-assessed, Sequence

Writing Project: Development Process and Final Submission

Designed with an explicit focus on developing writing skills in first year students, this assessment adopts a design approach to a staged writing project. This assessment is divided into several scaffolded tasks that must be completed and submitted cumulatively throughout the semester.

First year
Class size of 100-500
Medium security
Peer-assessed, Sequence