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Assessment Task

The culmination of individual needs assessments will mean that your group now has a

comprehensive and complex understanding of your target population. It’s now time to start planning! In Assessment 2 your group will be required to present a blueprint of your program plan to your fellow students. In this presentation (10 min) your group needs to outline your programs objectives and strategies, and present your logic model. You will also be expected to answer questions (3 min) from your peers and your learning facilitator.

Assessment Flow Chart

Please ensure that you read the Portfolio Assessment Brief before completing this assessment.

1. Needs assessment (Individual)

• Part A: Objectives,

Strategies & Logic

Model (Group)

• Part B: Program Planning,

• Reflection: Program Planning Process and

Colaboration

(Individual)

Context

The ability to communicate and present ideas clearly is essential for your success as a public health professional. Public health professionals rarely work in isolation, and as such collaboration skills are essential to your career in Public health. In this assessment you will have the opportunity to learn skills required to present and interact efficiently with stakeholders, as well as amongst your group members. The successful completion of this assessment requires strong collaboration and engagement from all group members.

Task Instructions:

In this task you are required to create and present a 10 minute group presentation that provides a blueprint of your program plan. This presentation needs to include the following.

1.  Include an overview of your group’s presentation:

• A brief introduction of your group and topic.
  • A brief overview of your public health issue based on need assessment.

2.  Program and Evaluation Plan blueprint:

• Program Logic model
  • Based on prioritised need for a chosen population.
  • Overarching Goal
    • The overall aim that you want to achieve via your program following SMART criteria.
  • Objectives
    • There should be at least 3 objectives following SMART criteria.
  • Strategies
    • How you will go about achieving your goal and objectives;
    • The activities that will contribute to the achievement of the objectives.
    • A clear relationship between activities and outcomes Which activities are being implemented through engagement of stakeholders to produce progress on which outcomes?

3.  Risks and Challenges

• Identify any potential challenges to the program
  • What may occur that can put the program at risk, what are the challenges, and how will you address them?
    • For example, people may not enrol?

4.  Brief Conclusion and summary

• Slide with references

6.  Questions

• Each group will spend 3 minutes answering questions from the Learning Facilitator and from fellow students. Groups will be marked on both the quality of the answers they provide and the quality of the questions they ask other groups.

Referencing

It is essential that you use appropriate APA style for citing and referencing research. Please see more information on referencing in the Academic Skills webpage.

Submission Instructions

Online

Recording Instructions

• You can record your group presentation using the web conferencing app of your preference, for example, Zoom, Skype, Microsoft Teams, etc.
  • Please note that ad-hoc university tech support for web conferencing apps is not available.
  • Please refer to the following useful information to guide you in compressing and uploading your video presentation:
    • Steps required to record your video presentation.

You will be teamed up with another group by your Learning Facilitator. You will need to organise a time that suits all members, and meet via Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, or via Zoom, to present your presentations to each other. Each group must ask and answer 3 minutes of questions.

This session is to be recorded and the recording link and slides need to be uploaded to the Assessment 2 link in the main navigation menu in PUBH6007 Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation.

On-Campus:

Groups will be allocated a time to present during the Module 8 class each group must ask and answer 3 minutes of questions. Presentation slides will need to be uploaded to Assessment 2 link in the main navigation menu in PUBH6007 Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation the completion of the Module 8 class.

The Learning Facilitator will provide feedback via the Grade Centre in the Blackboard portal. Feedback can be viewed in My Grade

Academic Integrity

All students are responsible for ensuring that all work submitted is their own and is appropriately referenced and academically written according to the Academic Writing Guide. Students also need

Assessment Rubric