For this assessment you will submit:

1. A scanned copy of your Field Workbook and worksheets completed on the field trip. The worksheets must include a legible soil characterisation for the sites we visited. (10%)

2. A Summary of work completed at the residential school. This short report should include a brief description of the experiments carried out and their results, including relevant figures. It must be no more than 1500 words, excluding title page, references, table, figures and captions. Figures must be publication ready and generated using Excel, R or other suitable software. Resources and exemplars are available on the Moodle site to explain how to make publication ready figures in Excel. (20%)

The ENVR12001 Residential School is compulsory for all students. You may not complete this activity using notes produced by another student.

The Field Workbook and worksheets will be marked on:

1. Completeness and legibility of information in field workbook/notebook;
2. Completeness and legibility of information in worksheets.

The Summary will be marked on:

1. Completeness (all descriptions, field and laboratory soil tests and results presented);
2. Clarity, grammar, punctuation and organisation;
3. Figure presentation (figures should be publication ready);
4. Accuracy and supporting evidence of the final soil classifications.

A complete rubric and exemplar with weightings will be available on Moodle.

This assessment consists of:

1. Group written report will be a maximum of 3000 words long (excluding title page, figure and picture captions, tables and references). (25%)
2. Group Oral Presentation will consist of an 8-minute online (Zoom) presentation of the report with an additional 4 minutes for questions (10%). Each student will be given an individual mark for their portion of the presentation and that will form a part of your overall mark for the group presentation (i.e. you may receive a different mark from your group members).
3. Mark from Self and Peer Assessment (SPA) tool, based on your contributions to the group work. It is in your best interests to participate fully and politely with your peers. There is a guide to Working in Groups on the Moodle page. (5%)

Both the written report and oral presentation should include:

• a region-appropriate acknowledgement of or welcome to country;
• a description of the setting;
• a summary of the approach you would take to identify potential problems regarding soil at the site, and how you would assess, quantify and measure these issues.

A more detailed task description and exemplar is available on Moodle.

The Group Written Report, Group Oral Presentation & SPA will be graded in the following way:

Group Written Report:

1. Completeness of scenario description;
2. Approach and reasoning;
3. Appropriateness of the methods selected to assess, quantify and measure the issues;
4. Clarity, grammar, spelling, references, and contribution statement.

Group Oral Presentation:

1. Presentation quality (including slides, oral presentation, on-time delivery, organization and focus);
2. Audience targeting;
3. Equal division of presentation time;
4. Quality of answers to questions asked after the presentation;
5. Each student will receive an individual mark based on presentation quality for their portion of the presentation excluding the Acknowledgement of Country.

Self and Peer Assessment (SPA):

1. Each student's final mark for the SPA will be an average of their peers' assessment of their contribution to the group.

This is the End of Term Quiz. You will get one attempt and have 90 minutes to complete it once you start. Make sure to begin the quiz at least 90 minutes before the closing time to ensure you have the full 90 minutes to complete the quiz. The quiz is worth 60 marks, and the marks are divided in the following manner:

• Five 1 mark Short Answer Soil Physics questions (1 Soil order, 1 Soil Texture, 3 Non-Specific) (5 marks total)
• One 15 mark Soil Classification question (15 marks total)
• Two 5 mark Soil Chemistry questions (10 marks total)
• One 10 mark Soil Chemistry question (10 marks total)
• Two 10 mark Soil Biology questions (20 marks total)

The questions in each category are selected from a question bank and are balanced for difficulty and type. The marks are a relative guide to how long is required to answer each question (1 mark ~ 1 minute). For each question, type your answer in the box provided. It is an open book quiz but your answers must be your own work and will be checked against answers available in textbooks or on Google/Reddit/DuckDuckGo/etc. The unit coordinator has provided required/suggested materials (e.g. Soil Texture Triangle) in a Moodle tile titled "Useful documents/links for the End of Term Quiz". Spelling and grammar are not a primary concern in marking (you won't lose marks for misspelling or poor punctuation), but you will not get full marks if your ideas are hindered or obscured by poor spelling/grammar.

Some questions allow you to submit a hand-drawn sketch with your answer. Before beginning the quiz, you must have a digital camera/smart phone to take pictures with and a means to upload the images to moodle from that camera before the quiz attempt ends). Please confirm that you can transfer pictures from your camera or phone to your computer before you begin.

Quiz answers will be marked based on:

1. Completeness of the answer;
2. Relevance of the answer (did you answer the question);
3. Accuracy of the answer.

Spelling and grammar will not be marked except as it impacts the ability of the marker to understand the answer.