Assessment 1

Webinar Presentation – Zoom

You are you, a final year social work student undertaking your field education placement in an agency or organisation providing social welfare or human services to a particular community. Utilising the findings to date from your literature review of a particular area of interest in Assessment 2, prepare a 15 minute webinar presentation to be delivered by Zoom at a designated date and time. Details of the webinar will be made available on Moodle. This unit requires students to identify a topic from the contemporary issues that can relate to your field education placement, however students may choose a topic that does not relate to their agency or field of practice.

The webinar presentation must be accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the primary findings of your research. The webinar will be recorded.

For this assessment students will submit a PowerPoint presentation to moodle and will then present at a webinar using their PowerPoint to discuss their researched topic via Zoom. The presentation must adhere to the guidelines of the grading criteria. The webinar requires you to focus on your overall analysis and findings to date.

Your webinar presentation should include; your rationale for choosing the topic, what you have learned, summary findings on evidence base for the practice area and how you critically analysed the information and the findings of the research. Highlights and limitations should also be outlined.

Webinars should demonstrate the following:

1. A statement of purpose and significance of the topic to social work practice or policy development in your particular field or context

2. Your critical analysis of your findings and how you evaluated the research methods, validity and reliability, limitations and relevance to practice or policy development

3. Your recommendations or assessment of the potential impact or relevance to your agency, community or society

4. Your reflections and practice wisdom gained from the research and how it may influence your future work as a social worker.

5. An engaging and professional power point as a visual aide to the presentation

13-15 mins duration (1 mark per 2 minutes will be deducted over this duration).

40%

Students will be allocated a Zoom room in order to record their session. Details will be posted on Moodle.

Students will need to have access to computer, good internet speed and camera / microphone in order to present and record the Zoom session.

SOWK14010- MARKING CRITERIA FOR WEBINAR PRESENTATION

Purpose

You are you, a student in your final social work field education placement at agency/service X. Select an area of social work practice that CAN be relevant to your work in the agency setting. A topic might be broad such as; evidence based social work interventions with people who have self-harming behaviours, examining the effectiveness of group work, investigating the contributing factors to homelessness among young people, evidence based therapeutic intervention in a specific context or a specific aspect of social work practice in your organisation. However it is not compulsory to choose a topic that is relevant to your particular organisation. Topics should be broad enough to provide breadth of literature and specific enough to identify how this knowledge contributes to social work practice approaches. The research topic should be formulated as a research question.

Product

You are to:

1. Consider a consultation with your field educator/supervisor and discuss a possible collaboration with them or relevant staff in your agency to select an appropriate topic or area of interest relevant to the agency context, client group or area of practice, or some area that you have a special interest in that does not relate to your placement. Not every agency has capacity to engage in research projects so this is up to you to decide what will have the best outcome for you as the student

2. Undertake a literature review related to your chosen topic of interest. Literature should include a range of methodologies (action research, ethnographic studies, quantitative and qualitative research, case study, meta analysis etc) in order to provide a solid evidence-base for the practice area. The focus for your research should be on evidence based practice with a social work specific lens. Approximately 75% of the research and literature relied upon must be social work specific. You will also draw from broader research and literature that provides context, theoretical underpinnings and practice approaches to your particular issue or topic.

3. Using the set text, unit readings and resources, critically evaluate and analyse the research you have conducted to present your literature review

4. Prepare a written paper on your literature review findings ensuring you adhere to appropriate scholarly standards

5. Your paper should have a clear introduction, discussion and summary of your analysis and findings. Recommendations should include considerations for social work practice and further research.

4000 words excluding tables, diagrams or models, and reference list.

Students who exceed the word count will incur penalties. You must remain within 10% of the word limit (maximum 1% of the overall mark will be deducted for every 100 words over or below)

Students who do not submit within the due date without an extension request being approved will be subject to penalties.

SOWK14010 - MARKING CRITERIA FOR WRITTEN ASSESSMENT – LITERATURE REVIEW AND ANALYSIS

	HD	D	C	P	Fail
Critical Analysis Introduction, Statement of trend or issue relevant to organisational context	Paper consistently demonstrates application of critical analysis and is well integrated.	Clear application of problem solving through critical analysis / critical thought of the topic area.	Demonstrates application of problem solving through critical analysis of the topic area.	Some evidence of critical thought / critical analysis and rationale for paper.	Lacks critical thought / analysis/ reference to problem solving .

Use of Literature / Discussion in particular identifying collaborative methodology or consumer driven inquiry	Has developed and justified using own ideas based on a wide range of sources which have been thoroughly analysed, applied and discussed.	Able to critically appraise the literature and theory gained from a variety of sources; developing own ideas in the process.	Clear evidence and application of readings/theory relevant to subject. Uses indicative texts identified.	Literature is presented uncritically and indicates limitations of understanding/ literature has been used in a purely descriptive way.	Literature either not consulted or irrelevant to assignment set.

Application of social work practice framework as well as standards, ethics, values in order to analyse research and application to practice	Uses the analysis and evaluation of social work knowledge and standards to formulate recommendations or knowledge for practice	Evidence of the ability to formulate strategies from the analysis of literature and research.	Strategies for social work practice clearly influenced by the research and relevant standards	Identification of the practice standards, ethics, values and appropriate social work knowledge integrated with practice.	Wholly theoretical, or wholly practice, or theory and practice disconnected from social work values and standards

Evaluation and critical analysis informed by extensive social work literature	Very extensive use of social work literature evaluating and analysing the chosen topic	Extensive use of social work literature evaluating and analysing the chosen topic	Social work literature is evaluated and analysed to inform review	Basic use of social work literature with application relevant to some aspects of the chosen topic	Poor, inaccurate or limited use of social work literature or research reports

Summary

Analytical and clear conclusions. Well-grounded in theory and literature, showing development of new concepts for practice

Good development shown in summary of arguments based on practice and theory.

Evidence of findings and conclusions grounded in practice.

Limited evidence of findings and conclusions .

Unsubstantiated/ invalid conclusions based on anecdotes and generalisations only.

Clarity of Expression/ Read ability and Referencing

Thoughts and ideas - clearly expressed. Grammar and spelling accurate. Fluent academic writing style and referencing

Thoughts and ideas - clearly expressed. Grammar and spelling accurate and language and referencing accurate and fluent

Language mainly fluent. Grammar and spelling mainly accurate. Referencing is generally accurate

Meaning apparent, but language not always fluent; grammar and spelling contain errors and referencing contains some errors

Purpose and meaning of written work unclear and/or language, grammar and spelling and referencing contain significant errors.

As part of this unit, students are required to attend a compulsory residential school. Students that have previously failed the course must attend again. Students that have previously attended (within the last 2 years) may be eligible to receive an exemption from attendance however this will only be approved at the discretion of the Unit Coordinator.

There is no grade allocated to this assessment, however failure to attend will impact on participation in field education 2.

Evidence of attendance at residential school or written approval of exemption from Unit Coordinator.