CQUniversity Unit Profile.

This assessment task requires you to complete three online quizzes throughout the term. Each quiz will contain multiple choice and short answer questions. The number and type of questions for each quiz is posted on moodle. Once you enter/commence each quiz, you will have 60 minutes to answer all questions i.e., complete the quiz. 

Level of GenAI use allowed:
Level 1: The assessment is completed entirely without AI assistance in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding and skills. You must not use Al at any point during the assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge. 

Grace period:
As this assessment involves online quizzes, the 72-hour grace period does not apply.

A timetable outlining the opening and closing of each quiz has been outlined below:

Online Quiz 1:Content assessed: weeks 1-3
Opens: Monday, 3 August 2026, 7:00 AM
Closes: Wednesday, 5 August 2026, 7:00 AM

Online Quiz 2:
Content assessed: weeks 4-6
Opens: Monday, 31 August 2026, 7:00 AM
Closes: Wednesday, 2 September 2026, 7:00 AM

Online Quiz 3:
Content assessed: weeks 7-9
Opens: Monday, 21 September 2026, 7:00 AM
Closes: Wednesday, 23 September 2026, 7:00 AM

Students will be assessed on their ability to apply anatomical knowledge of the vocal tract and auditory system to describe production and perception of speech, and apply knowledge of Australia’s linguistic diversity to identify how language background may influence communication needs in clinical contexts. Students will demonstrate this knowledge through correct responses to multiple choice and short answer questions on online quizzes.

There are 2 parts to this assessment. First, you will be required to transcribe 30 utterances of a child’s speech. You will then identify primary stress in each word. Second, you will list two (2) ways that you could assess the child’s intelligibility, and then indicate which method you would use for this child and why. You will then provide an explanation for how two (2) domains positively or negatively influence intelligibility. For this assessment task, you are required to use phonemic (BROAD) transcription. Your emphasis should be on clearly identifying the phonemes used by the child in the video rather than subtle variations on the phonemes. For example, if the child was trying to say “bit” but used a /p/ at the beginning (a different phoneme), you would transcribe as /pɪt/.

You do not need to use diacritics or stress markers.

Part 1: Phonemic transcription

1. A video will be released on Moodle on Tuesday 6th October at 7am (Week 12). You will have 48 hours to listen to the video and submit your assessment.

2. You must complete your transcription on the provided form, called “Assessment 2 Response Form.” To aid in your transcription, the orthographic (spelled) transcription of the utterances has been included on this form for you. This form will be released in Moodle when the video is released.

3. You must transcribe the child’s speech using phonemic (broad) transcription, using the IPA symbols covered in class and in your textbook. You will use Harrington, Cox and Evans (HCE) Australian vowels.

4. Once you have transcribed the sample, you will need to indicate primary stress in each word that you have transcribed using the ‘ mark. Each word has only one primary stress.

5. You may transcribe by hand initially. Once you are happy with your transcriptions, you will convert them to a typed transcription in the Word document using the IPA phonetic symbols program https://ipa.typeit.org/full/ or https://aptct.auburn.edu/. You must upload the typed version.

Part 2: Intelligibility.

6. You will list two (2) ways that you could assess intelligibility, and indicate which method would be suitable for this child and why. You will then explain how two (2) domains of phonology, speech rate, suprasegmentals, and/ or acoustics is positively or negatively influencing the child’s intelligibility. You will write this on the “Assessment 2 Response Form”.

As this assessment involves a timed take-home test, the 72- hour grace period does not apply.

Level 1 AI:

The assessment is completed entirely without AI assistance, in a controlled environment, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding and skills.  You must not use AI at any point doing this assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge.

This is a must pass assessment task. Student must receive a minimum grade of 50% to pass this assessment task.

Criterion 1: Phonemic transcription There are 109 words to be transcribed across the 30 utterances. Your grade will be determined by the total number of words transcribed correctly. For example, if you made 3 transcription errors on one word and 1 transcription error on another word, your grade would be 107/109 because only 2 words had errors. This criterion will be worth 60% of your grade for this assessment.

Criterion 2: There are 109 words, therefore 109 indicators of primary stress. Your grade will be determined by the total number of correct primary stress indicator marks. This criterion will be worth 15% of your grade for this assessment.

Criterion 3: You will list two (2) ways that you could assess the child’s intelligibility, and then indicate which method you would use for this child any why. You will then choose two (2) domains out of phonology, speech rate, suprasegmentals, and/ or acoustics and describe how the domains positively or negatively influence the child’s intelligibility. This criterion will be worth 25% of your grade for this assessment.