To demonstrate your understanding and knowledge of this unit, you are required to complete an online quiz. This quiz can be accessed via the assessment tab from the unit's Moodle page.

The access to the online quiz will be available on Tuesday of Week 6 for general sonography students enrolled in CG91 and Thursday of Week 6 for echocardiography students enrolled in CV69.

The contents of week 1 to week 5 will be assessed in the online quiz.

The online quiz will be open from 0900 to 1730 hours AEST on both days.

The test is comprised of ten questions worth 10 marks each.

The questions will be a combination of short answer and calculation type questions including image recognition questions. Images included will be from physics lab tasks in week 2 and week 5.

Once the quiz is accessed, it will remain open for 90 minutes, giving you an average time of 9 minutes per question.

Questions will be drawn from a large pool of questions to allow the quiz to be different for each student.

This assessment is to be undertaken as an individual. As with all other university assessments, colluding with other students on non-group work tasks is considered academic misconduct, and may lead to academic penalty. Inserting answers from other websites is considered plagiarism.

Responses will be assessed according to:

• Use of appropriate and correct use of physics and ultrasound terminology and descriptors as well as grammar, spelling, the relevance of response and competence in addressing all elements of the question.
• Ability to appropriately and correctly interpret images/graphs/tables and to succinctly compose a correct and appropriate response based on their learning from the unit.
• Ability to show all the working out for any calculation question and demonstration of correct methods of using the appropriate formula and use of correct SI unit throughout the calculation.
  

Physics laboratories (labs) will provide an opportunity for you to explore the physical principles of ultrasound and develop knowledge of machine instrumentation and controls under the guidance of a tutor.

You are responsible for having access to the lab manual on an appropriate electronic device during the lab sessions, or alternatively, printing a hard copy of the lab manual and bringing it with you to the lab.

In small groups (4-5 people), you will collaboratively perform tasks set out in the lab manual during the practical laboratory sessions (weeks 2, 5 and 10) and obtain ultrasound images that will assist to answer set questions per task.

During the labs, you will be required to record and store images, and observe the effect of changing machine parameters on the resultant image.

You will be required to attempt the lab manual questions during the lab sessions. The questions are designed to help you understand the physical properties of ultrasound and how that knowledge is used to inform the practical production of diagnostic medical images.

You are expected to work in teams to acquire images. Image sharing amongst lab group members is permitted, however lab manual questions are to be answered as an individual.

Upload your completed lab manual to the unit Moodle page via the link provided in the Assessment block.

It is a highly recommended that you attend all the laboratory practical sessions in order to meet the unit learning outcomes.

If you do not attend a lab session for any reason you are still required to complete the lab manual exercises and submit the lab manual by the due date.

Please bring a USB stick to labs to save the acquired images. 

Please note the following excerpt from the University Assessment of Coursework Procedures: '...students who fail a single assessment task in a pass-fail unit, or who fail a pass-fail component of a graded unit will be deemed to have failed that unit'.

You are required to demonstrate your understanding of each lab task by performing the assigned task and correctly answering the assigned question for each task.

Record and store the required images as per instructions in the lab manual. The images are to be stored on a USB drive (provided by the student).

Answering the questions in the lab manual can be attempted during the lab session and may be completed in your own time, once the lab activities are completed.

Questions should be answered concisely, supported by the acquired images where required.

The acquired images should be inserted in the lab manual which should be saved in the Microsoft Word format.

This assessment will be marked as a PASS or FAIL. A minimum of fifty percent of the questions must have been answered correctly for students to obtain a PASS grade.

A detailed marking rubric is available on unit's Moodle page.

Failure to submit the completed lab manual by the due date and time will result in a grade of "FAIL" for the student regardless of their performance in other assessments of the unit.

There is no option of extension or late submission for the lab manual assessment (unless approved extension is obtained via the Moodle Extension Request System, with appropriate documentation) as students have 9 weeks to complete this task (from week 2 to week 11 of the term).

To demonstrate the understanding and knowledge of the entire unit's contents, and to assess whether all the unit's learning outcomes have been achieved, you are required to complete an end of term online test.

The contents of week 1 to week 11 will be assessed in the end of term online test.

The end of term online test will be open from 0900 to 1730 hours on the assessment day. 

The end of term online test is comprised of ten questions worth 10 marks each.

The questions will be combination of short and long answer and calculation type questions including image recognition questions. Images included will be from physics lab activities during the term.

Once the online test is accessed, it will remain open for 120 minutes, giving an average time of 12 minutes per question.

Questions will be drawn from a pool of questions to allow tests to be different for each student. This assessment is to be undertaken as an individual.

The access to the end of term online test can be via own electronic devices. No on-campus attendance is necessary on the assessment day.

As with all other university assessments, colluding with other students on non-group work tasks is considered academic misconduct, and may lead to action being taken. Inserting answers from other websites at the time of the online test is considered plagiarism.

The end of the term online test assesses:

• Use of appropriate and correct physics and ultrasound terminology and descriptors as well as grammar, spelling, the relevance of response and competence in addressing all elements of the question.
• Ability to appropriately and correctly interpret images/graphs/tables and then to succinctly compose an appropriate and correct response based on their learning from the unit.
• Ability to show all the working out for any calculation question and demonstration of correct methods of using the appropriate formula and use of correct SI unit throughout the calculation.
• Ability to discuss the answers comprehensively and correctly and demonstrate evidence of deep understanding of the concept and to apply critical thinking when addressing the questions.