This unit requires you to complete a minimum of 245 hours of supervised professional practice over a seven week block placement. This beginning level placement will provide key opportunities for you to integrate previously acquired knowledge (theories and principles of occupational therapy) with professional practice experience.

The practice educator who supervises the professional placement will assess you using the Student Practice Evaluation Form Revised Edition (SPEF-R). This will then be returned to the CQU Professional Education Manager, Occupational Therapy for the results to be recorded in Moodle.

You will be assessed as pass or fail using the Student Practice Evaluation Form-Revised (SPEF-R) by the supervising practice educator/s. In addition to rating items, practice educators provide written feedback in the feedback / recommendation spaces provided on the form.The evaluation is completed at half-way and again at completion of the professional placement. To achieve an overall pass on the final evaluation you will need to:

- pass all core items (a rating of 3 or more). If you fail a core item, you will consequently fail the evaluation overall.

- pass the additional minimum requirements indicated for each learning objective

- pass the relevant learning objectives for all domains

More detailed information on the SPEF-R can be found in the user manual supplied to you during the intensive and also located on the unit (formerly known as course) Moodle site. Minimum requirements for passing each learning objective are specifically located on page 15 of the SPEF-R user manual.

A final summary statement regarding your overall performance is recorded together with your grade of pass or fail.

You are required to submit an ePortfolio using Mahara.

The ePortfolio should consist of:

• An introductory statement which includes a description of the placement and a clear rationale for your choice of individual learning goals from your learning plan for this placement.
• Completed and signed learning plan with at four learning goals addressing different domains in the SPEF-R.
• Completed Student Review of Professional Practice Placement form from the SPEF-R.
• Completed log of fieldwork hours (this is not marked however these hours need to be recorded for evidence that the WFOT fieldwork requirements have been met at graduation).
• Evidence of a wide range of skills, knowledge and a good use of placement opportunities that displays obvious improvements in competencies over the 6 week duration of the professional placement. This evidence will be clearly linked with competencies relating to your learning plan.
• Completed and signed copy of the SPEF-R if educator doesn't use online SPEF-R.
• A summary statement at the end of the page which summarises your strengths and future learning and career goals as an occupational therapist.

You can find full details of the ePortfolio assessment on the unit (formerly known as course) Moodle site.

To achieve an acceptable rating you will need to clearly link each piece of evidence in the ePortfolio to your individual learning plan and at a minimum include the following in your ePortfolio:

• Introductory statement which includes a description of the placement and a clear rationale for your choice of individual learning goals from your learning plan for this placement.
• Completed and signed individual Learning Plan with four learning goals representing a range of domains of the SPEF-R.
• Evidence of two occasions of participation in formal learning activities (e.g. attending conferences, workshops, seminars, developing evidenced based practice resources, certificates evidencing learning outcomes).
• Evidence of two occasions of participation in informal learning activities (e.g. private study, case presentations, journal of reflection, receiving supervision).
• Completed and signed log of placement hours.
• Completed Student Review of Professional Practice Placement form included in the SPEF-R.
• Completed and signed copy of the SPEF-R if not completed online.
• Summary statement at the end of the page which summarises your strengths and future learning and career goals as an occupational therapist.

You will be awarded a fail rating for your ePortfolio if the minimum number of pieces are not included and / or if these pieces are not linked to your learning plan and / or presentation of evidence is unprofessional and / or confidentiality is breached.

Further details of the marking criteria can be located in the ePortfolio assessment marking information on the unit (formerly known as course) Moodle page.

Complete Evidence Review-Part B - 2,500 words (Template will be forwarded).

You will use the template provided to complete the following:

a) Informative title

b) Clinical Scenario

c) Focused clinical question

d) Search strategy

e) Data base and search terms

f) Search inclusion and exclusion criteria

g) Categorisation of papers (4)

h) Select suitable appraisal tools

i) Endnote library

j) Summary and appraisal Study 1

k) References

Tasks a) through to k) as listed above are graded using a Marking Matrix loaded onto Moodle. Each section is awarded points to total 100 marks