In order to successfully complete the assessment you must:

• Consult the Detailed Unit published through the unit's iLearn site.
• Have access to the textbook and read at least the required chapters. 
• Listen to all lecture recordings.
• Use the Detailed Unit Guide to ensure correct preparation and completion of assessments.

Delivery

ECH130 has a total of three (3) contact hours per week, including 2 x 1hr lectures and 1 x 1hr tutorial.

The textbook for ECH130 is:

Garvis, S. & Pendergast, D. (2017). Health and wellbeing in childhood (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

For those wanting to make a head start, the following chapters will be required reading: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 19, 20, 23, and 24.

You must have access to this textbook throughout the unit.  Please purchase the textbook as soon as possible.  

External Students

Attendance at the on-campus is voluntary.  You must register for the on-campus no later than 17 March if you wish to attend.  Details will be available on iLearn from the first week of session 1.

Unit Expectations

• In order to be eligible for a passing grade, students must meet the following attendance requirements:
  • Internal Students: Attend at least 80% of all tutorials – punctuality is expected. Consistent lateness or absence will jeopardise a passing grade. 
  • Students are required to contribute to all online and tutorials tasks
• Students are expected to read weekly readings before completing tasks and attending tutorials
• Students are expected to listen/attend weekly lectures before completing tasks and attending tutorials
• All assessment tasks must be submitted

Assessment

When preparing your assignments, it is essential that:

• Students must retain a copy of all assignments before submission, and retain the copy until your final grade for the subject has been received;
• Marks will be deducted if you submit your assessment late (refer to the ‘assignment extensions and late penalties’ section below for more details);
• If an assessment is considered to be below passing standard, another staff member on the unit will provide a second opinion. No failed assessment may be re-submitted.

Final Submissions

• Students are responsible for checking that their submission has been successful and has been submitted by the due date and time.
• Late submissions due to last minute technical difficulties will incur a lateness penalty.

Assignment extensions and late penalties

Applications for extensions must be made via AskMQ at https://ask.mq.edu.au as a "Special Considerations" request before the submission date. Students who experience a disruption to their studies through ill-health or misadventure are able to apply for this request. Extensions can only be granted if they meet the Special Considerations Policy and are submitted via ask.mq.edu.au. This will ensure consistency in the consideration of such requests is maintained.

In general, there should be no need for extensions except through illness or misadventure that would be categorised as unavoidable disruption according to the University definition of same, and currently available at: https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policies/special-consideration

Late submissions without extension will receive a penalty of 5% reduction of the total possible mark for each day late (including weekends and public holidays). You are reminded that submitting even just 1 day late could be the difference between passing and failing a unit. Late penalties are applied by unit convenors or their delegates after tasks are assessed.

No assessable work will be accepted after the return/release of marked work on the same topic. If a student is still permitted to submit on the basis of unavoidable disruption, an alternative topic may be set.

Students should keep an electronic file of all assessments. Claims regarding "lost" assessments cannot be made if the file cannot be produced. It is also advisable to keep an electronic file of all drafts and the final submission on a USB untouched/unopened after submission. This can be used to demonstrate easily that the assessment has not been amended after the submission date.

Department of Educational Studies (EC) Academic Honesty Guidelines:  

All assignments should cite and provide full bibliographical details of all material that you have used to inform or support your ideas. At the Department of Educational Studies, students are required to use the American Psychological Association (APA) referencing procedures. 

Final Grades

The final grade a student receives signifies their overall performance in meeting the learning outcomes for the unit. The number assigned to a grade (Standard Numerical Grade or SNG) reflects the extent to which student attainment matches the grade descriptors.

Your raw mark for the unit (i.e., the total of your marks for each assessment item) may not be the same as the SNG which you receive. Results may be scaled to ensure there is a degree of comparability across the university, so that units with the same past performances of their students should achieve similar results. The process of scaling does not change the order of marks among students. A student who receives a higher raw score mark than another will also receive a higher final scaled mark.

Please note that the order of lecture topics is subject to change, and it is best to check Ilearn and the Detailed Student Guide (on ilearn) for final details.