School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Professional Reasoning in Occupational Therapy
  • Unit Code

    OCT4128
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rachel BATTEN

Description

This capstone unit is designed to consolidate the professional reasoning skills of fourth year students. Students will apply their skills in using occupational therapy theory, cultural awareness and evidence-based practice to underpin their responses to practice scenarios and extend skills in critical reflection. Over the semester students will develop a portfolio to showcase reflexive practice and support their transition from student to occupational therapist.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply professional reasoning to complex occupational therapy scenarios to meet occupational therapy graduate competencies.
  2. Synthesise relevant research evidence pertaining to a focused client (individual, group or population) to inform best practice.
  3. Demonstrate collaborative, safe and culturally responsive practice for all client groups in a range of practice settings; develop respectful interventions and evaluations incorporating cultural, contextual and ethical factors.
  4. Clearly articulate and critically reflect upon their own professional reasoning process to demonstrate reflexive practice.

Unit Content

  1. Professional reasoning and critical reflection in occupational therapy.
  2. Incorporating occupational therapy models in professional reasoning.
  3. Cultural and contextual factors influencing occupational therapy practice.
  4. Working with populations; needs analysis, stakeholder engagement and community development.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will collaborate to facilitate sessions across a range of practice settings. Industry partners will contribute to learning and development within these sessions. Individual student portfolios are designed to capture student development across the semester.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
WorkshopFacilitation of professional reasoning session.30%
VivaVideo viva of professional reasoning 30%
Portfolio ^Portfolio of learning activities and reflexive thinking.40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Professional Reasoning in Occupational Therapy
  • Unit Code

    OCT4128
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rachel BATTEN

Description

This capstone unit is designed to consolidate the professional reasoning skills of fourth year students. Students will apply their skills in using occupational therapy theory, cultural awareness and evidence-based practice to underpin their responses to practice scenarios and extend skills in critical reflection. Over the semester students will develop a portfolio to showcase reflexive practice and support their transition from student to occupational therapist.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply professional reasoning to complex occupational therapy scenarios to meet occupational therapy graduate competencies.
  2. Synthesise relevant research evidence pertaining to a focused client (individual, group or population) to inform best practice.
  3. Demonstrate collaborative, safe and culturally responsive practice for all client groups in a range of practice settings; develop respectful interventions and evaluations incorporating cultural, contextual and ethical factors.
  4. Clearly articulate and critically reflect upon their own professional reasoning process to demonstrate reflexive practice.

Unit Content

  1. Professional reasoning and critical reflection in occupational therapy.
  2. Incorporating occupational therapy models in professional reasoning.
  3. Cultural and contextual factors influencing occupational therapy practice.
  4. Working with populations; needs analysis, stakeholder engagement and community development.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will collaborate to facilitate sessions across a range of practice settings. Industry partners will contribute to learning and development within these sessions. Individual student portfolios are designed to capture student development across the semester.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
WorkshopFacilitation of professional reasoning session.30%
VivaVideo viva of professional reasoning 30%
Portfolio ^Portfolio of learning activities and reflexive thinking.40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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