Assessment task details for all students
Professional Skills
FAHE13001
Term 1, 2012
Task Rationale:
This assessment task is designed to provide students
with opportunities to demonstrate their professional
skills of both a generic nature and degree specific.
Learning Outcomes/Objectives:
This assessment task assesses all the learning outcomes
for this course.
Assessment Task: Final
Assignment Task Type
Report or equivalent
Weighting:
100%
Due Date:
Thursday Week 12
Graduate Attributes demonstrated:
GA1: Communication (graduate)
GA2: Problem solving (graduate)
GA3: Critical thinking (graduate)
GA4: Information literacy (graduate)
GA5: Team work (graduate)
GA6: Information technology competence (graduate)
GA7: Cross cultural competence (graduate)
GA 8: Ethical practice (graduate)
Detailed assessment task description:
You are to create a research report on your evidence for
Conditions:
3 Graduate Attributes and 3 degree specific
professional skills. The research report may be
 Length: 3,000 words or equivalent;
presented in mode of your choice such as written or
 Individual task;
multimedia on a website. It is to be of a standard
 Lecturer and peer input as relevant;
 Use of resources on course Moodle website and appropriate for public viewing/reading. In your research
report you are to use relevant research literature to
other sources;
 Checking of authenticity of student work: frame and analyse your six professional skills.
Students may care to use Turnitin on the course
At a minimum, you are to use these headings to
Moodle website;
 Checking of quality of contribution to group structure your research report:
 Introduction
work: Not applicable;
 Research literature on professional skills
 A draft maybe submitted by email for formative
 Evidence and quality of 3 of my CQUniversity
feedback (no grade but ideas on strengths and
Graduate Attributes
how to improve further), to your lecturer in or
 Evidence and quality of 3 of my degree specific
before Week 8.
professional skills
 Conclusion
 References
In creating your response to this assessment task you
may reflect upon your whole degree or selected parts
such as a work placement and a project undertaken
there to identify and evidence your professional skills
associated with your degree.
Request for an extension of time to complete your assessment response
Applications for extensions are to be made via the Assignment Extension System (AES) available in your
CQUniversity Student Portal. Should you have difficulties in raising an AES request, then you may ask a
CQUniversity staff member to do so for you.
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FAHE13001 Professional Skills Assessment Task: Research report
highly authoritative analysis
of information to develop
arguments and demonstrate
very insightful knowledge and
understanding of key concepts
and principles.
highly discerning selection
and organisation of relevant
information and data with
very effective and efficient
use of research literature and
other authoritative sources to
great effect.
highly sustained control of
communication with insightful
use of appropriate mode,
genre and language
conventions to convey
meaning with very wellreasoned justification of
conclusions.
Recommended Grade:
Comments:
Distinction
The student work has the
following characteristics
Credit
The student work has the
following characteristics
Pass
The student work has the
following characteristics
authoritative analysis of
information to develop
arguments and demonstrate
insightful knowledge and
understanding of key
concepts and principles.
discerning selection and
organisation of relevant
information and data with
effective and efficient use of
research literature and other
authoritative sources to great
effect.
sustained control of
communication with
effective use of appropriate
mode, genre and language
conventions to convey
meaning with well-reasoned
justification of conclusions.
effective analysis of
information to develop
arguments and demonstrate
effective knowledge and
understanding of key concepts
and principles.
effective selection and
organisation of relevant
information and data with use
of research literature and other
authoritative sources.
analysis of information to
develop arguments and
demonstrate knowledge and
understanding of key
concepts and principles.
effective control of
communication with use of
appropriate mode, genre and
language conventions to
convey meaning with
justification of conclusions.
control of communication
with use of mode, genre and
language conventions to
convey meaning.
selection and organisation
of relevant information and
data with use of research
literature and other
authoritative sources.
Fail
The student work
has the following
characteristics
Does not meet the standard for a Pass or above
,Knowledge, understanding, & communication
Criteria sheet:
High distinction
The student work has the
following characteristics