Assessment Criteria

Assessment at Macquarie University is standards-based, as outlined in the Assessment Policy. This means that your work will be assessed against clear criteria, and these criteria (e.g. in a rubric) will be made available when the assessment tasks are released to you on iLearn.

Submission of Assessments

All assessments must be submitted online through Turnitin unless otherwise indicated. Links for the submission of each assessment will be available on iLearn.

You should always check that you have uploaded the correct file. If you have a problem, please email the Unit Convenor with your correct file. You must also keep a copy of your assessments until the end of semester in case there is a problem with your submission. It is your responsibility to ensure that you can provide a copy of your assessment if requested.

Marking of Assessments

Assignments will usually be marked through Turnitin with grades provided through Gradebook on iLearn. Please do not submit your assessments via email or in hard copy unless requested.

We aim to return your assessment grades and feedback within two to three weeks of the date that you submitted it. We appreciate your patience and will advise you through iLearn when your marked assessments and feedback are available for viewing.

Late Assessment Submission Penalty

Students enrolled in Session based units with written assessments will have the following university standard late penalty applied.

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of '0' will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11:55 pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical concern.

For any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, students need to submit an application for Special Consideration.

Unit iLearn

This unit has an iLearn page that can be accessed through ilearn.mq.edu.au. It contains important information and other materials relating to the unit, including details and links for assessments.

Communication

We will communicate with you via your university email and through announcements on iLearn. Queries to convenors can either be placed on the iLearn discussion board or sent to the unit convenor via the contact email on iLearn.

Unit Organisation This unit is delivered in (modules/weekly topics). The organisation of these is outlined in a detailed unit schedule which is available on iLearn.

Classes

The class timetable for this unit can be found through the Timetable portal. You should also check the unit schedule as some weeks may have other instructions or locations. Week 1 will be delivered live via Zoom at the scheduled time, with pre-recorded research case study examples in the field of remediation conducted at the School of Natural Sciences, which can be watched after the Zoom session.

Recommended Texts and/or Materials

Bedient P.B., Rifai H.S. and Newell C.J., 1994. Ground water contamination, PTR Prentice-Hall, New Jersey USA.

Carney T. and Hobson D.M., 1998. Contaminated land, E&FN Spoon, New York USA.

Jankaite A. and Vasarevicius S., 2005. Remediation technologies for soils contaminated with heavy metals, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 633, 206-219.

Mirsal I., 2008. Soil Pollution Origin, Monitoring & Remediation, Springer, 2008.

Nathanail P. and Bardos R.P. 2004. Reclamation of contaminated land, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester UK.

NSW EPA, 1997. Managing Urban Stormwater: Treatment Techniques, Sydney.

NSW EPA, 2014. Waste Classification Guidelines Part 1: Classifying waste, Sydney.

Reible D.D. 2000, Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering, CRC Press, Boca Roca USA.

Reimann C. and de Caritat P., 2017. Establishing geochemical background variation and threshold values for 59 elements in Australian surface soil, Science of the Total Environment, 578, 633 -648.

Schoonover J.E. and Crim J.F., 2015. An Introduction to Soil Concepts and the Role of Soils in Watershed Management, Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 154, 21.

US EPA, 2017. How To Evaluate Alternative Cleanup Technologies For Underground Storage Tank Sites.

US EPA, 2019. Guidelines for Human Exposure Assessment.

van der Perk M., 2006. Soil and water contamination, Taylor & Francis, London UK.

Yeung A.T, 2009. Remediation Technologies for Contaminated Sites, in book Advances in Environmental Geotechnics pp 328-369.

Technology Used and Required

This unit will use iLearn and Echo360. See the Instructions on how to log in to iLearn and the iLearn quick guides for students which will help you:

• Getting started - Find out how to navigate and familiarise yourself with the iLearn environment
• Activities - Learn how to effectively complete the activities required of you in iLearn
• Assignments and Gradebook - Find out how to submit assessments and view your grades using iLearn
• Online study tips - Studying online is a unique experience, learn how to navigate it here
• Discussion forums - Explore the different types, and features of discussion forums in iLearn

Lecture recordings - Find out how to access lectures online, as well as the features available to you.

We value student feedback to be able to continually improve the way we offer our units. As such we encourage students to provide constructive feedback via student surveys, to the teaching staff directly, or via the FSE Student Experience & Feedback link in the iLearn page. Student feedback from the previous offering of this unit was very positive overall, with students pleased with the clarity around assessment requirements and the level of support from teaching staff. As such, no change to the delivery of the unit is planned, however we will continue to strive to improve the level of support and the level of student engagement. Example for units with an update due to the new assessment policy: To enable students more time to focus on learning, understanding and reflecting on the content of our unit we have revised the assessment structure as follows. There are now only three assessments: a skills assessment, report and final exam. Although no marks are associated with attendance, all activities provide you with key content designed to help you understand content and complete the assessments.