These periodic quizzes are based on lecture and study material from previous weeks (so please revise the lecture and reading material associated with the weeks covered by the quiz). 

For ALL students, Theory Quizzes open the Wednesday after the weeks' covered in the quiz (e.g. Theory Quiz A covers Weeks 1-3, so opens on Wednesday in Week 3) and is open for 1 week. 

The Theory Quizzes are limited to 30 minutes for completion; make sure to submit within the 30 minutes.

You can attempt each quiz a second time, but there is a 60 minute enforced delay between attempts and your highest score of the attempt/s will be the score recorded. You must make the attempt while the quiz is open.

Questions are true/false, multiple choice, mix-and-match and other formats. Because the questions are drawn at random from a question bank, you will most likely receive different questions if you make a second attempt, and you will likely receive different questions from your peers. I ask that you not share your quiz questions or answers with other students as this may disadvantage other students and it will be considered academic misconduct.

No Assessment Criteria

Students will complete a series of tasks in the field and associated activities in their workbooks. These activities will address animal monitoring skills (e.g. trapping and handling), aquatic monitoring skills, (e.g. water sampling for chemical analysis), vegetation monitoring skills (e.g. vegetation transects and specimen collection and ID), and peripheral skills (e.g. GPS and Chain of Custody). During or after each field activity, students will present their work to a supervisor for marking and feedback. It is important that students make sure that all required skills checks are completed and signed off on at the end of each activity or day. These sheets are due at the end of the residential school before students depart.

The assessment criteria for each task an activity will vary, but assessment criteria will generally revolve around the following:

1. Safety;
2. Accuracy;
3. Completeness;
4. Compliance.

After receiving feedback, and at the instructors discretion and within the limits of field work, students will be given an opportunity to demonstrate proficiency in skills they were not able to receive full marks on in the field or workbook.

During your ENVR11014 residential you will undertake survey and monitoring field work activities that require the application of scientific and industry standard environmental monitoring methodologies and technologies. These activities will be across three areas: 1) terrestrial animal, 2) brackish-water aquatic and, 3) terrestrial vegetation. Following the residential school you will use the data collected to write up and present the results of each activity and then discuss those results with reference to accepted ecological theory(ies). Written reports must use both figures, tables and text and include a relevant discussion around each of the field work activities (600 words ±10% per activity report, 1800 words ±10% total). To assist you with the task of writing up the results, general assistance with the interpretation and analysis of data will be provided at the end of field work activities.

The Residential School Results and Discussion will be marked on:

1. Completeness (relevant observations and results presented from all three activities);
2. Clarity, grammar, punctuation and organisation;
3. Presentation of figures and tables (figures should be publication ready)
4. Correct inline referencing of figures/tables;
5. Discussion of the results (are all the results included discussed?);
6. Appropriate application of ecological theory to the results in the discussion;
7. At least two appropriate and correctly-cited references with appropriate author-date citation (look up "parenthetical referencing" i.e. Harvard Referencing).