Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.

This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .

Term 3 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 53.33% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 26.79% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

1. Comprehend how to develop, select and use assessment strategies to assess student learning informed by neuroscience
2. Synthesise high-quality assessment principles, student feedback, reporting and moderation processes to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning informed by neuroscience
3. Elaborate on how to use student assessment data to identify student interventions and modify teaching practice
4. Integrate the knowledge of novice vs expert learners, brain learning and retention processes, mastery progression, and neuromyths to inform and adapt educational practices effectively.

Successful completion of this unit provides opportunities for students to demonstrate the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers focus areas of:

1.2 Understand how students learn

5.1 Assess student learning

5.2 Provide feedback to students on their learning

5.3 Make consistent and comparable judgements

5.4 Interpret student data

5.5 Report on student achievement

Successful completion of this unit also provides opportunities for students to engage with the following Learning Outcomes from the AITSL Core Content 1 – The Brain and Learning:

1.1 Knowledge of what it means to be a ‘novice’ learner in comparison to an ‘expert’. Knowledge of and skill in the related implications for practice. 

1.2 Knowledge of the most efficient and effective process of knowledge acquisition in the brain, including the function of memory and the concept of cognitive overload. 

1.3 Knowledge of the process that occurs in a novice brain during progression towards mastery. Knowledge of and skill in the need to adjust practice in response. 

1.4 Knowledge and understanding of common neuromyths and the impact of their perpetuation. 

• Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
• Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes