CQUniversity Unit Profile.

Assessment task one (1) engages you with volunteering broadly and its enactment in emergency and disaster management and is broken into two (2) separate parts.

Part 1

• You must choose a single, specific historical or contemporary disaster event that has occurred in the past 25 years, anywhere in the world. (for example, the 2011 Brisbane floods, the NSW Black Summer Bushfires, 2019-2020, or Hurricane Katrina, 2005). 
• Your chosen event must have had a considerable volunteer component as part of its response and/or recovery phases.
• Using CQUni's 7-step process, document how you have located relevant secondary literature in relation to this disaster event and its volunteer involvement.
• You must submit a search strategy table (using the template provided) showing how you used the CQU 7-step research process.

Part 2

• You must choose at least seven (7) peer reviewed articles, located as part of this CQU 7-step process, and create an Annotated Bibliography for each of these seven (7) sources. At least five (5) of these sources must be peer reviewed. 
• You must identify with each of your Annotated Bibliographies, which articles are peer reviewed and which are not, and comply with the principles of an Annotated Bibliography.
• At least two of these annotated sources MUST discuss the theoretical aspects relating to volunteerism (e.g. theories of volunteering) and at least two annotated sources, MUST be empirical reports or articles, related to your chosen disaster.

Level of GenAI use allowed: Level 2 - AI PLANNING

You may use AI tools for pre-task activities such as brainstorming, planning, and initial searching. You must thoroughly review and evaluate all AI-generated content so the final output accurately reflects your own understanding, knowledge and intended meaning and you can explain and justify it when asked. You may not submit AI-generated content as part of the final submission.
 
STUDENTS MUST INCLUDE GEN-AI USE DECLARATION
 
Choose your appropriate AI declaration. Complete relevant details.
 
Suggested wording for AI use declaration:
 
AI Use Declaration  (include at the bottom of your title page)
In completing this Assessment Task, I acknowledge the use of [specify the GenAI tools/platforms] to guide the [specific process/es: brainstorming, drafting, research assistance, editing, etc.]. The output from these prompts was used to [explain how the output from GenAI was critically evaluated to use in your own work]. I confirm that all AI-generated content underwent thorough review and evaluation and the final output accurately reflects my own understanding, knowledge and intended meaning. While AI assistance was used in the process, I maintain full responsibility for the content, its accuracy, and its presentation and can explain and justify all inclusions. This declaration is included to ensure transparency and to formally acknowledge the role of AI in the completion of this assessment task.  
 
Complete this declaration if you did NOT use AI:
 
In completing this Assessment Task, I confirm that this work is entirely my own and I have not used any Generative AI tools. This assessment task accurately reflects my own understanding, knowledge, and intended meaning. 

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a rubric, which is available from the Moodle unit site. Broadly, you will be assessed on:

• Use of the literature
• Knowledge of the concept of community and its relationship to emergency and disaster management.
• Knowledge of the different types of voluntary participation

Format: Critical Literature Review (2,500 – 3,000 words)

The Task

• Building directly upon the sources gathered in Task 1, you are to write a critical evaluation of the volunteer dynamics within your chosen disaster. 
• You must analyse types of voluntary participation that occurred during the response and/or recovery of your chosen disaster event. e.g., formal emergency services vs. spontaneous, unaffiliated community volunteers) 
• You must discuss what worked well and what could be done differently next time, in terms of volunteer management, volunteer roles, and volunteer responses to the disaster event.
• This critique of volunteering responses to your disaster even, must include, and link back to, existing theoretical models of volunteerism. Discuss how do these theoretical models of volunteering explain what actually happened, during and/or after your chosen disaster event.
• You are strongly encouraged to read widely and choose other additional articles (not included in your Annotated Bibliography) and use these as part of your critique of volunteerism in relation to your chosen disaster event.

Level of GenAI use allowed: Level 1 - NO AI

You must not use AI at any point during this assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge.

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a rubric, which is available from the Moodle unit site. Broadly, you will be assessed on:

• Use of the literature
• Understanding of the different types of voluntary participation
• Application of knowledge and skills related to voluntary participation to emergency and disaster management
• Your critique of volunteerism against a real disaster event

Your Task

• Consider your critique of volunteerism in relation to your chosen event, presented in Assessment Task 2.
• The final piece of the puzzle is the recommendations that you have considered, based upon the findings of your critique.
• Based on your critique, and your findings, you must formulate and discuss, practical, short- and long-term strategic recommendations on how emergency management agencies can better engage, coordinate, and enhance volunteer participation in a future similar disaster event.
• You are to create an 8 – 10 minute, 8 – 10 slide, PowerPoint Presentation that summarises your chosen disaster event, your critique of this event, AND shares your short-term and long-term strategic recommendation of how volunteers can be more effectively utliised in future similar disaster events.
• You must reference your work. Intext (in-slide) references and a final slide with your reference list must be included.
• You must create a PowerPoint Presentation with an embedded audio component where you speak to the slides, covering the information required above (i.e. chosen disaster, critique, future recommendations), as per the requirements below.

Presentation requirements for your PowerPoint Presentation:

- The PowerPoint presentation will have a maximum of 10 slides.

- The first slide should include the title of your presentation and your name.

- The last slide will be your reference list, based upon sources used. (sources must be identified on relevant, individual slides)

- A sample PowerPoint presentation template is provided in the Assessment section of the Moodle site. 

- You must provide, and upload, a PDF of your presentation transcript along with your reference list.

- Your audio component is an expanded discussion of the topic and verbal presentation of the content from your PowerPoint slides. 

-  Embed the audio in your PowerPoint Presentation (see Moodle for help).

- The audio presentation will be no more than 10 minutes in length.

- You must include relevant, supporting visual images and avoid ‘Death by PowerPoint’ in your presentation.

Level of GenAI use allowed: Level 3 - AI COLLABORATION

You may use AI to assist with specific tasks such as drafting text, refining and evaluating your work. You must critically evaluate and modify any AI-generated content you use.

STUDENTS MUST INCLUDE GEN-AI USE DECLARATION
 
Choose your appropriate AI declaration. Complete relevant details.
 
Suggested wording for AI use declaration:
 
AI Use Declaration  (include at the bottom of your title page)
In completing this Assessment Task, I acknowledge the use of [specify the GenAI tools/platforms] to guide the [specific process/es: brainstorming, drafting, research assistance, editing, etc.]. The output from these prompts was used to [explain how the output from GenAI was critically evaluated to use in your own work]. I confirm that all AI-generated content underwent thorough review and evaluation and the final output accurately reflects my own understanding, knowledge and intended meaning. While AI assistance was used in the process, I maintain full responsibility for the content, its accuracy, and its presentation and can explain and justify all inclusions. This declaration is included to ensure transparency and to formally acknowledge the role of AI in the completion of this assessment task.  
 
Complete this declaration if you did NOT use AI:
 
In completing this Assessment Task, I confirm that this work is entirely my own and I have not used any Generative AI tools. This assessment task accurately reflects my own understanding, knowledge, and intended meaning. 

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a rubric, which is available from the Moodle unit site. Broadly, you will be assessed on:

• Use of the literature
• Knowledge of the concept of community and of emergency and disaster management.
• Application of knowledge and skills related to voluntary participation to emergency and disaster management
• Recognition of collaboration between community and emergency and disaster management
• Presentation of relevant information