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CAUD8006 – Objective Assessment Strategies

2020 – Session 2, Special circumstance, North Ryde

Notice

As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group learning activities on campus for the second half-year, while keeping an online version available for those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.

To check the availability of face to face activities for your unit, please go to timetable viewer. To check detailed information on unit assessments visit your unit's iLearn space or consult your unit convenor.

General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff
Mridula Sharma
Margaret Wood
convener
Lindsey Van Yper
convener
Yee-foong Stone
Credit points Credit points
10
Prerequisites Prerequisites
(CAUD802 or CAUD8002) and (CAUD803 or CAUD8003) and (CAUD819 or CAUD8001)
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description
This unit aims to develop skills in using objective audiological assessment for the diagnosis of hearing thresholds or site-of-lesion testing. The content of this unit includes a discussion of otoacoustic emissions and how to assess these, vestibular physiology, pathophysiology and balance testing, the origin of acoustically evoked potentials of the auditory pathway and their assessment including electrocochleography, auditory brainstem responses and middle latency potentials.

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Learning Outcomes

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

  • ULO1: Analyse, evaluate and choose the test battery used in difficult-to-test cases and for site-of-lesion assessment.
  • ULO2: Competently argue and integrate the theoretical basis to clinical skills of a range of objective assessment strategies including; otoacoustic emissions, electrocochleography, auditory brainstem responses and middle latency responses (auditory steady state response)
  • ULO3: Demonstrate knowledge of vestibular physiology, pathophysiology and its relevance to the vestibular function assessment of clients
  • ULO4: critically evaluate the benefits and limitations of assessments of auditory brainstem, as well as, vestibular function (such as Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMPs) and Electronystagmography)

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Online Quiz 1 15% No 31/08/2020
online Quiz 2 15% No 12/10/2020
Essay 25% No 26/10/2020
online tasks 5% No 2/11/2020
Exam 40% No week 46

Online Quiz 1

Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: 31/08/2020
Weighting: 15%

 

The online test will aim to assess your knowledge of objective assessments relating to OAE, Electrocochleography and ABR within an hour. These will largely focus on the equipment set-up, stimulus, anatomy & physiology and acquisition parameters and your ability to apply your knowledge to a case study. All knowledge assessed will be material taught in lectures or in practica.

 


On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Analyse, evaluate and choose the test battery used in difficult-to-test cases and for site-of-lesion assessment.
  • Competently argue and integrate the theoretical basis to clinical skills of a range of objective assessment strategies including; otoacoustic emissions, electrocochleography, auditory brainstem responses and middle latency responses (auditory steady state response)

online Quiz 2

Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: 12/10/2020
Weighting: 15%

 

The online test will aim to assess your knowledge of objective assessments relating to Vestibular responses and Middle Latency Responses including Auditory steady state response. These will largely focus on the equipment set-up, stimulus and acquisition parameters and your ability to apply your knowledge to a case study. All knowledge assessed will be material taught in lectures or in practica.

 


On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Analyse, evaluate and choose the test battery used in difficult-to-test cases and for site-of-lesion assessment.
  • Competently argue and integrate the theoretical basis to clinical skills of a range of objective assessment strategies including; otoacoustic emissions, electrocochleography, auditory brainstem responses and middle latency responses (auditory steady state response)
  • Demonstrate knowledge of vestibular physiology, pathophysiology and its relevance to the vestibular function assessment of clients

Essay

Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 25 hours
Due: 26/10/2020
Weighting: 25%

 

This Case related essay will require explaining in 2000 words the management and diagnosis of a complex disorder with evidence from literature.

 


On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Analyse, evaluate and choose the test battery used in difficult-to-test cases and for site-of-lesion assessment.
  • Competently argue and integrate the theoretical basis to clinical skills of a range of objective assessment strategies including; otoacoustic emissions, electrocochleography, auditory brainstem responses and middle latency responses (auditory steady state response)
  • Demonstrate knowledge of vestibular physiology, pathophysiology and its relevance to the vestibular function assessment of clients
  • critically evaluate the benefits and limitations of assessments of auditory brainstem, as well as, vestibular function (such as Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMPs) and Electronystagmography)

online tasks

Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 1 hours
Due: 2/11/2020
Weighting: 5%

 

Short online quizzes and tasks: There are 2 to 3 multiple choice questions for each of eleven topics to estimate self understanding of online lecture material.

 


On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Analyse, evaluate and choose the test battery used in difficult-to-test cases and for site-of-lesion assessment.
  • Competently argue and integrate the theoretical basis to clinical skills of a range of objective assessment strategies including; otoacoustic emissions, electrocochleography, auditory brainstem responses and middle latency responses (auditory steady state response)
  • Demonstrate knowledge of vestibular physiology, pathophysiology and its relevance to the vestibular function assessment of clients
  • critically evaluate the benefits and limitations of assessments of auditory brainstem, as well as, vestibular function (such as Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMPs) and Electronystagmography)

Exam

Assessment Type 1: Examination
Indicative Time on Task 2: 25 hours
Due: week 46
Weighting: 40%

 

3 hour examination that covers the topics from the whole course where the students will need to respond to short and long questions.

 


On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Analyse, evaluate and choose the test battery used in difficult-to-test cases and for site-of-lesion assessment.
  • Competently argue and integrate the theoretical basis to clinical skills of a range of objective assessment strategies including; otoacoustic emissions, electrocochleography, auditory brainstem responses and middle latency responses (auditory steady state response)
  • Demonstrate knowledge of vestibular physiology, pathophysiology and its relevance to the vestibular function assessment of clients
  • critically evaluate the benefits and limitations of assessments of auditory brainstem, as well as, vestibular function (such as Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMPs) and Electronystagmography)

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

Delivery and Resources

All lectures are online and consolidations lectures scheduled on Wednesdays morning will be online too. There are hands-on practica scheduled, please check online timetable to select your preferred days. 

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