Each week, you will complete a multiple-choice online quiz related to the learning material for that week. In Week 12, you will complete an online short-answer quiz. You must complete each quiz in a limited time within the quiz open period. Your attempt for each quiz will be submitted automatically, but no more questions can be answered once the time limit expires.

To prepare for this assessment you can study the learning resources for the relevant weeks.

The results from these quizzes are combined towards the 40% weighting for this assessment task.

If you are unable to complete the quiz by the due date, you must apply for an extension before the due date.

You will be assessed on your competence through quizzes that consist of multiple choice or short answer questions. Each quiz will be based on the linked content.

You are to use critical and reflective practice to enrich your learning experience. Self-reflection is an important practice for personal and professional development. You will be required to write a self-reflective blog based on your practical experiences. Weekly reflections are to be recorded on a personalised blog on ORAL12003 Moodle. The Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle is an example of a reflective model you could use.

The completion of the personal reflective blog is a compulsory assessment and each entry must be completed to a satisfactory standard. Reflections must be submitted by midnight each Sunday for the previous week you are in clinic.

There are two 3 hour clinical practice sessions per week. Clinical sessions include:

Peer learning activities designed to consolidate, apply and extend the theory learnt in years 1 and 2 into clinical practice.

Examination and treatment of dental hygiene patients.

• Placement sites may include:
• CQUniversity Oral Health Clinic
• SACCR at CQUniversity Health Clinic
• Residential Care Facilities
• Oral Health Education at child care centres, schools, community health centres, community groups
• Private Hospitals
• Private Dental Clinics
• Specialist Dental Clinics
• Public Health Districts

A list of contacts and placement site addresses is at the bottom of the Google Drive Student Roster (link on unit Moodle page).

There are three components in this Practical Assessment. Each component must be passed in order to pass the assessment.

Component 1 Safety Audit Task:

Students will undergo a safety audit during the Friday clinical session in Week 5.

The safety audit is an assessment of your basic hygiene clinical skills to ensure you are safe to commence treatment on patients from the general public.

Students are graded against a criterion-referenced rubric. Students must achieve a satisfactory score in all criteria to pass the safety audit.

Re-attempt:

Re-attempt is where you are given a second opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of one or more of the unit’s learning outcomes before you can progress to new learning or participate in subsequent learning activities.

If you do not pass the safety audit, you will be given an opportunity to re-attempt the safety audit within a week. Note that only one opportunity to do a re-attempt will be given. If you do not pass the re-attempt, you will be unable to continue clinical practice in ORAL12003.

Component 2 Clinical Performance:

A criterion-referenced analytical assessment rubric for evaluation of student performance of procedures is provided in the Online Real-time Assessment System (ORAS). ORAS records all work-integrated learning experiences, including a number of assessed student-client interactions and performance of procedures. Placement supervisors are required to complete an entry into ORAS for each student-client interaction assessed.

Each student-client interaction is graded on a rubric, which will reflect a grade of Not Yet Competent (0), Approaching Competent (1), Competent (2), and Highly Competent (3) for each procedure part (see example below). An average grade is given at the end of each student-client interaction assessment for all procedures completed.

In each student-client interaction assessment there are also Critical Competencies. A Not Yet Competent (NYC) in one or more of the Critical Competencies results in a mark of 0 overall for that student-client interaction.

The data is collated over the term to monitor performance and as a “log” of the procedures and student-client assessments completed by the student. The unit teaching team will assess the data aggregated in ORAS over the period of the term to form a longitudinal comprehensive picture of the achievement and development of competence by the student.

In order to achieve a grade of pass in this component, you are required to achieve a minimum average score of Competent (2).

Summative assessment for this component commences Monday of Week 4. Prior to that, clinical performance is completed on a formative basis.

Component 3 Attendance:

Attendance at clinical placements is compulsory. You are required to attend a minimum of 90% of rostered clinical placement days. This allows you approximately 2 days of absence without penalty. Absences are required to be supported with a medical certificate or negotiated with the Unit Coordinator/s in advance. Absences are to be made up at operational convenience. The 2-week intensive requires 100% attendance.

A pass for satisfactory attendance is defined as 100% attendance at the 2-week intensive, as well as maintaining and fulfilling the 90% clinical placement attendance for the days rostered during the term. Not meeting attendance requirements may result in a placement outstanding until the next available unit offering, which may delay your progress through the course and graduation.

Who to contact if you are sick: The unit coordinator (via email) and Libby Warlow (via phone).

If you require an extension for this assessment please refer to the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)

See information in Task Description, which includes assessment criteria.

This assessment consists of stations set up around the room, each with a set question/s that must be answered within a set time period. After the time period has lapsed, you will rotate to the next station and repeat this until you have been to all stations. There will be a maximum of one (1) student per station at a time. You will be given an answer booklet in which to write your answers. At the end of the assessment, your answer booklet must be returned to the assessor. This assessment is closed book so the only things you will be allowed to have on you are pens (black ink only) and your answer booklet.

Critical thinking and application of learnt basic clinical concepts into real life situations.