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This unit enables students to relate diagnostic monitoring of sleep behaviour across the lifespan via polysomnography to sleep physiology and specific sleep disorder groups. Common causes and treatments for sleep disordered breathing, insomnia, hypersomnia and sleep related movement disorders will be investigated.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
BMSC12007 Neurological Physiology and Measurement
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Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
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Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Self-reflection
Review Assessment 2 to ensure it continues to challenge students while maintaining fairness and clarity.
Revise the Assessment 2 rubric to include more specific criteria and performance descriptors that differentiate levels of achievement.
Feedback from Self-reflection
Explore opportunities to provide students with formative feedback on their written assessment drafts to help them refine their work and improve their final submissions.
Collaborate with the Learning and Teaching Futures team to explore and implement opportunities for students to receive formative feedback on their written assessment drafts, enhancing the quality of their final submissions.
- Describe normal sleep physiology with reference to gender and age specific differences
- Define circadian rhythms and factors that influence them
- Describe the measurement and function of polysomnographic recording of sleep behaviour
- Interpret the analysis process for sleep staging of polysomnographic recordings
- Analyse the diagnosis and consequences of sleep deprivation
- Explore causes, clinical features and treatment of sleep disordered breathing
- Discuss the prevalence, types and treatments for insomnia
- Describe symptoms, monitoring and evaluation techniques for hypersomnia
- Discuss and differentiate sleep related movement disorders
- Evaluate the use of polysomnography in investigating sleep disordered breathing in children.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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| 2 - Group Discussion - 40% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Online Test - 40% | ||||||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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| 1 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Group Discussion - 40% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Online Test - 40% | ||||||||||