School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Specialised Secondary Health Studies
  • Unit Code

    PHE6714
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Maria GAMBLE

Description

This unit furthers students' understanding of the principles of planning, teaching and learning in Health Education, and the place of the subject in the organisation of an interrelated HPE. Specific emphasis is placed on monitoring student achievement, assessment and reporting in Health Education with the purpose of promoting quality and reflective practice. In addition, this unit explores curriculum, task design and assessment in the senior schooling courses of Health Studies.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have completed PHE6713

Equivalent Rule

Unit previously coded PHE4264

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse traditional and contemporary HPE curriculum models, programmes and resources in the context of Health Education.
  2. Develop, implement and refine assessment and reporting approaches to promote student achievement in Health Education.
  3. Analyse Senior Schooling curriculum for Health studies courses, and pedagogies to develop lessons and programmes that support critical health inquiries.
  4. Examine assessment and examination requirements for Health Studies in Western Australia.

Unit Content

  1. Instructional design and teaching and learning techniques that support diversity and inclusivity in Health Education.
  2. Monitoring, assessment and reporting practices to promote student achievement in Health Education.
  3. Senior Schooling courses of study in Health Studies, including general and ATAR courses.
  4. Adherence to the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA) policies and systemic guidelines for senior schooling.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 214 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, practical workshops and teaching experiences.

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
AssignmentDeveloping an assessment task50%
ProjectResource Investigation for Health Studies50%

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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