These assessment items have been designed to stretch thinking about the unit work or apply new process skills from each module.

The activities may be responded to as a word document / ppt / jpg / pdf or as a blog entry.

The activities for this term include:

1. System map (TA1-A) 
   
2. Tripod analysis (TA1-B) 
   
3. System life cycle (TA2) 
   
4. WorksafeBC model (TA3) 
   
5. 'Systems thinking' reflection (TA4) 
   

You will find detailed instructions for each activity in the assessment submission area on Moodle. For each item you must submit your response in the “assessment submission” area (see ‘Assessment’ block in top left side of moodle). The submissions should be clearly named with your surname and activity number.

Each of the assessment submission areas have been set up to receive multiple files.

As each Tutorial Activity has its own question, the specific marking criteria for each activity will be provided provided through moodle. Each question will be worth 4 marks.

The marking criteria will include the quality of your response to the activity, as well as organisation of your submission, and accuracy of grammar and spelling.

This assessment item has been designed to stretch thinking about the unit work and help you (and your colleagues) prepare for your annotated mind map.

The submission will be via a Q & A type discussion forum. I will start the particular topic then you are required to respond with your annotated bibliography entry before you will be able to see the entries submitted by other students.

An annotated bibliography is an organized list of sources, each of which is followed by a brief note or "annotation."

There will be four topics:

1. Define Human-Machine Relationships (AB1) 
2. Failures related to the design process (AB2) 
3. Investigating System Failure (AB3) 
4. Prevention of system failure (AB4) 
   

For each topic, you are required to complete:

1. A review of a useful website that furthers understanding the topic (not Wikipedia!); AND
2. A review of a journal article, book or conference paper that furthers understanding the topic; AND
3. A reference list for the articles cited.

Each of the two annotations for each topic must include:

• a description of the content and focus of the book, article or website
• suggestions regarding the source's usefulness to your research
• an evaluation of its method, conclusions, or reliability
• a record of your reactions to the source

Your initial posting is the one that will be graded so please make sure that you include both bibliographies in your first post.

You may use the collective annotated bibliographies when creating your annotated mind map.

We will be discussing these assessment items during the term but if you have any doubt as to what is required, please don’t hesitate seek clarification in moodle or in class.

As each Annotated Bibliography has a different focus, the criteria for each will be given specifically in Moodle. Each response will be worth 5 marks.

As a general guide, the annotated bibliographies will be assessed as shown below:

• Quality of the response to the exercise
• Includes a description of the content and focus of the book, article or website
• Suggestions regarding the source’s usefulness to your research
• An evaluation of its method, conclusions, or reliability
• A record of reaction to the article (connections made etc.)
• Organisation
• Consistently accurate grammar & spelling
• Referencing
• Overall points for organisation, grammar & spelling and referencing

This assessment item is a complex output that will draw from all of your learning in the term and put you in the front seat as a beginning practitioner.

This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment but you may use the collective annotated bibliographies.

You will prepare an annotated mind map of an accident case study.  One of the purposes of this mind map is to assist your team in the team assignment,  but the mind map must be done individually and must be done before the team assignment!

You should work with your team to select an agreed case study in Week 6.

You should prepare and submit your individual mind map by the end of Week 10.

It is worth 30% so don’t underestimate this one!!!

Your annotated mind map should evidence:

• What happened (describe circumstances)
• Why it happened (discuss findings)
• Nature of system and system parts
• Design failures and system life cycle
• Issues and findings related to people, workplaces & management

The Annotated Mindmap will be assessed based on the quality and depth of the following points:

• Communicates all salient issues related to ‘what happened’
• Identifies the relationships between people other system parts.
• Applies knowledge of system life cycle and explains its effect on failure.
• Recognises systems failure, and investigates the reported failures.
• Examines the nature of systems failure and demonstrates ability to appropriately categorise to people, workplaces and management issues.
• Selects and applies appropriate evidence sources to support analysis
• Organisation
• Written expression
• Selects appropriate bibliographic entries and references them correctly

This assessment item provides your team with an opportunity to analyse a complex socio-technical systems failure.

This team work builds on the individual work carried out by you and your team members in Assessment 1, 2 & 3. In your team you will have already chosen a complex socio-technical systems failure. The members of your team will have already individually analysed this failure as a mind map in Assessment item 3.  You will now as a team prepare and write a report on that failure based on the collective mind maps of the team members.

This report will include:

• Title page - team name and members
• Contents page
• What happened - description of circumstances
• Why it happened - discussion of findings
• Conclusions re major learnings from the accident
• Consideration of prevention strategies
• Formal referencing and reference list
• Appendix (as required and including team contract)

Further detail will be provided in moodle during the term.

The report will be assessed as shown below.

• Communicates all salient issues related to ‘what happened’
• Identifies the relationships between people and other system parts.
• Applies knowledge of system life cycle and explains its effect on failure.
• Recognises systems failure, and investigates the reported failures.
• Examines the nature of systems failure and demonstrates ability to appropriately categorise to people, workplaces and management issues.
• Proposes appropriate prevention strategies based on taught principles e.g. safe design, resilience engineering & redundancy
• Demonstrates understanding of complexity and systems thinking
• Selects and applies appropriate evidence sources to support analysis
• Organisation
• Written expression
• Selects appropriate bibliographic entries and references them correctly