Audiology Short Courses / Course details

Learners will participate, in an online meeting, to brainstorm about the common (and less common) challenges of objective testing in infants and children and best practices of overcoming these. Learners work in a group to solve blunder cases

• To explore the challenges of objective assessments  
• To explore the challenges and opportunities of multidisciplinary and multi-environment assessment 

Students’ learning for the taught element of this course unit is a combination of online face to face sessions and online resources and material. During the online workshops, students will meet as a group (to be determined by participants on the basis of their focus and educational settings) to work on a common theme for their group project. They will do this collaboratively in their small peer groups, whose members will be their ‘critical supervisors’.

Formative assessment:

Collate the challenges and best problem-solving approaches in objective assessments in children.

The final summative assignment is:

Creation of a portfolio of the challenges and best problem-solving approaches and the summary of the PBL exercise and write a 2,000-word academic reflection about your learning.

Learning Hours: 

• Demonstrate systematic understanding of literature sources and clinical challenges related to paediatric assessment
• Make links between the evidence and implications for clinical practice 

• Show critical awareness undertaking analysis of complex, incomplete or contradictory areas of knowledge communicating the outcome effectively both to expert audiences and public 

• Operate in complex and specialised contexts
• Show ability to exercise initiative and personal responsibility in professional practice  

• Effectively work with a group as leader or member  
• Use full range of learning resources  
• Reflective on own practice
• Able to competently undertake research tasks with minimum guidance; be an independent and self-critical learner, guiding the learning of others  
• Engage confidently in academic and professional communication with others, reporting on action clearly, autonomously and competently  
• Show good problem-solving skills

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