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

    Occupational Therapy Honours thesis 1
  • Unit Code

    OCT5101
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Mandy STANLEY

Description

This unit is designed to progress the Honours research project and to consolidate professional reasoning skills of fourth year students. Students will begin data collection and analysis phases of their research project. They will also critically engage with the relevant literature in writing the literature review section of their thesis. Students will apply their professional reasoning skills and evidence based practice knowledge to develop responses to practice based scenarios and deepen skills in reflexivity.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will meet regularly with their supervisors by arrangement in addition to seminars.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed OCT3210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically review relevant literature to form a strong rationale for conducting a research study.
  2. Apply ethical principles to the conduct of a small scale research project.
  3. Manage data collection and the research process with guidance.
  4. Apply professional reasoning processes to complex occupational therapy scenarios to demonstrate practice readiness.
  5. Demonstrate collaborative, safe and culturally responsive reflexive practice.

Unit Content

  1. Writing a literature review.
  2. Theory related to professional reasoning and reflexive practice.
  3. Cultural and contextual factors impacting occupational therapy service provision.
  4. Working with populations, needs analysis, stakeholder engagement and community development.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will work collaboratively with their supervisors to continue into the literature review, data collection and analysis phases of their research project. Students will also engage with each other in seminars to consider professional reasoning across a number of practice settings. Industry partners will contribute to learning.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Literature ReviewMajor literature review40%
PortfolioEvidence of engagement with learning materials30%
Viva ^Professional reasoning video30%

^ 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

    Occupational Therapy Honours thesis 1
  • Unit Code

    OCT5101
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Mandy STANLEY

Description

This unit is designed to progress the Honours research project and to consolidate professional reasoning skills of fourth year students. Students will begin data collection and analysis phases of their research project. They will also critically engage with the relevant literature in writing the literature review section of their thesis. Students will apply their professional reasoning skills and evidence based practice knowledge to develop responses to practice based scenarios and deepen skills in reflexivity.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will meet regularly with their supervisors by arrangement in addition to seminars.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed OCT3210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically review relevant literature to form a strong rationale for conducting a research study.
  2. Apply ethical principles to the conduct of a small scale research project.
  3. Manage data collection and the research process with guidance.
  4. Apply professional reasoning processes to complex occupational therapy scenarios to demonstrate practice readiness.
  5. Demonstrate collaborative, safe and culturally responsive reflexive practice.

Unit Content

  1. Writing a literature review.
  2. Theory related to professional reasoning and reflexive practice.
  3. Cultural and contextual factors impacting occupational therapy service provision.
  4. Working with populations, needs analysis, stakeholder engagement and community development.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will work collaboratively with their supervisors to continue into the literature review, data collection and analysis phases of their research project. Students will also engage with each other in seminars to consider professional reasoning across a number of practice settings. Industry partners will contribute to learning.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Literature ReviewMajor literature review40%
PortfolioEvidence of engagement with learning materials30%
Viva ^Professional reasoning video30%

^ 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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