As a future healthcare professional, you need to be able to harness core physical concepts and terminology to predict and explain observations in your clinical environment. This assessment requires you to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of some core physics concepts and terminology that you will learn in the first three weeks of study in this unit.

The intent of this assessment is for you to demonstrate your ability to do three things:

• select principles, concepts and facts that are relevant to a situation,
• apply the concepts logically to solve a problem,
• communicate your reasoning using terminology and science conventions correctly.

This assignment consists of three parts:

• Section 1 will require you to differentiate the meanings of similar keywords
• Section 2 will require you to determine whether a given statement is true or false and provide your reasoning.
• Section 3 will be a numerical word problem.

Weekly tutorials will provide practice in analysing assessment questions, structuring logical and thorough responses and assessing your responses relative to the posted assessment criteria.

The posted weekly learning goals articulate the specific terminology (keywords), concepts and skills you are expected to learn in the unit and form the basis for the assessment questions. You should be able to answer these questions using your learning from watching the unit lecture videos, reading the assigned text and from other assigned learning activities from Weeks 1 - 3. There is no expectation that you will need to research any additional material in order to complete the assessment.

You should use the number of marks indicated for the question as a guide to the depth of response and number of main points expected. There is no target word count for the assignment or for any individual question. However, a guidance statement for each question will indicate a typical number of paragraphs that would be sufficient to address the question.

The completed assignment must be word-processed and in either Word or pdf file format.

Further details on the assignment, including the questions, marking rubric and formatting requirements will be provided on the unit Moodle site.

Each question on the assignment instruction page will indicate the number of marks per segment. Responses are scored based on:

• correct use of terminology
• factual correctness of presented material
• correct use of science conventions
• relevance of stated content to the question asked
• application of foundation concepts to the question asked
• clarity, thoroughness and completeness of explanations
• logic of explanations and problem-solving
• application of an explicit step-by-step approach to solving numerical problems
• correct and complete citing of information sources

More details can be found in the Assessment Instruction page and the marking rubric/scoring guide posted on the unit Moodle site.

As a future healthcare professional, you need to be able to harness core physical concepts and terminology to predict and explain observations in your clinical environment. This assessment requires you to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of core physics concepts and terminology that you will learn in the first eight weeks of study in this unit.

The intent of this assessment is for you to demonstrate your ability to do three things:

• select principles, concepts and facts that are relevant to a situation,
• apply the concepts logically to solve a problem,
• communicate your reasoning using terminology and science conventions correctly.

This assignment consists of three parts:

• Section 1 will require you to determine whether a given statement is true or false and provide your reasoning
• Section 2 will be a numerical word problem
• Section 3 will require you to explain the underlying physics of a given situation and predict what would occur under specific changed circumstances.

The posted weekly learning goals articulate the specific terminology (keywords), concepts and skills you are expected to learn in the unit and form the basis for the assessment questions. You should be able to answer these questions using your learning from watching the unit lecture videos, reading the assigned text and from other assigned learning activities from Weeks 4 - 8. You will also be expected to integrate concepts and apply terminology from the first three weeks of study. There is no expectation that you will need to research any additional material in order to complete the assessment. Weekly tutorials will provide practice in analysing assessment questions, structuring logical and thorough responses and assessing your responses relative to the posted assessment criteria.

You should use the number of marks indicated for the question as a guide to the depth of response and number of main points expected. There is no target word count for the assignment or for any individual question. However, a guidance statement for each question will indicate a typical number of paragraphs that would be sufficient to address the question.

The completed assignment must be word-processed and in either Word or pdf file format.

Further details on the assignment, including the questions, marking rubric and formatting requirements will be provided on the unit Moodle site.

Each question on the assignment instruction page will indicate the number of marks per segment. Responses are scored based on:

• correct use of terminology
• factual correctness of presented material
• correct use of science conventions
• relevance of stated content to the question asked
• application of foundation concepts to the question asked
• clarity, thoroughness and completeness of explanations
• logic of explanations and problem-solving
• application of an explicit step-by-step approach to solving numerical problems
• correct and complete citing of information sources

More details can be found in the Assessment Instruction page and the marking rubric/scoring guide posted on the unit Moodle site.

You will complete a 150 minute time-limited online test during the university examination period, at a time scheduled by the School of Health, Medical and Applied Science. The purpose of this test is for you to demonstrate your understanding and ability to apply the concepts and correct use of the terminology from all weeks of the unit content.

When completing the test, you will be required to:

• demonstrate logical application of concepts and ability to articulate them
  
• discuss the physics related to a given situation in terms of explaining why the situation has occurred, what would happen if the situation was altered in a specific way, how to achieve a specific outcome in altering the situation and/or what outcome would logically follow the occurrence of the situation
• solve numerical problem
• use terminology correctly
  

The number of marks for each question are allocated based on the depth and breadth of the required response and will be indicated on the test. There will be some terminology matching questions but the majority of the test involves written responses. The types of written response questions will be similar in nature to those discussed in weekly tutorials.

All test questions are based directly on the published weekly learning goals. There will be a representative sampling from each week's content from Weeks 1 - 11, with heavier weighting for Weeks 9 - 11 because content from Weeks 1 - 8 has already been assessed to some extent in the two written assignments. You are encouraged to use the learning goals to guide your weekly learning as well as your revision for the final test. The verbs of the learning goals indicate the depth and scope of expected performance relative to each week's theory content.

This is an open book test. It means that during the test you may access your study notes, textbook, the unit Moodle site and/or any website.

The standards of academic integrity still apply. Just as for the written assignments, you must acknowledge content that is not your own - if you paraphrase from external sources other than the textbook or lectures, you must formally cite your source. If you copy any content word-for-word from ANY source, you must put that content in quotation marks and formally cite your source.

Your test responses must be your own work. You cannot seek assistance or make use of assistance from another person during this test. You may not communicate with any other person during the test (whether verbally, electronically or in writing) for any purpose relating to the test questions or your responses. You may not share the test content with any other person for any reason. At the start of the test you will need to make a declaration that you understand these rules of academic integrity and that you agree to abide by them. Any identified cases of potential collusion will result in a breach of academic integrity case being raised.

Although the test is an open book assessment, you must remain mindful of the time you are taking to answer each question and have an understanding of the content and also familiarity with your resources to use them effectively. You should not expect to have the time to consult your notes and/or other resources for every question.

You will need to ensure that you have reliable internet access and a computer for this test. It is highly recommended that you do not attempt the test using a tablet or smartphone due to the quantity of typing required.

It is your responsibility to log on to the unit Moodle site and complete the online test during the time the test is available. if you start the test with less than 150 minutes to the closing time, you will have less time to enter responses - your test will still close at the due date/time. In the absence of an approved extension, you cannot complete this assessment at a later time, and you will receive a mark of zero for the assessment if you have not submitted it by the scheduled date and time.

Responses are scored on the basis of their correctness, completeness and relevance to the question that was asked.

The expected depth of response to each question is indicated by the number of marks for the question. Unless otherwise specified, you are expected to provide one key factual or logic point (typically one to two sentences) for each mark. (For example, a question worth five marks should have five key points included in the response.)