EDF5681 Behaviour analysis: Implementation and experimental methods

There is a hurdle requirement in this unit . EDF5681 has been verified by the Association for Behaviour Analysis International (ABAI) as meeting specific faculty and coursework standards. The ABAI requires that students participate in a total of 270 hours of direct instructional activities aligned to the 4th Edition Task List. Coursework delivered via distance format is required to include verifiable methods that ensure student are in contact with the material for the time proposed. To ensure that students acquire the foundational knowledge, and to demonstrate that students are in contact with the material for the time proposed, interactive online activities in the form of formative quizzes and knowledge checks are built into the delivery of this content (i.e., embedded into the online lectures). Students must view the lecture and complete all of the associated knowledge checks before gaining access to the next topic. For Module 1, the hurdle requirement relates to learning outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4. For Module 2, the hurdle requirement relates to learning outcomes 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10. For Module 3, the hurdle requirement relates to learning outcomes 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10. Where a student fails the unit solely because of failure to satisfy the hurdle requirement, a mark of 48% will be returned for the unit.

In EDF5681, students must complete 103 hours of direct instructional (contact) activities, comprising. Contact hours will include the following instructional tactics:

*Video Lectures
*Case- and Problem-Based Teaching
*Formative Multi-Choice Quizzes
*Active Student Responding (ASR) Activities
*Online Tutorials
*Optional Workshops
Additional requirements (all students):

*185 independent study hours
This is a 12-point unit which, according to university policy, means you need to allocate up to 24 hours per week in participation, reading, research and assessment. However, the actual amount of time you spend on these activities may vary according to your needs and ability. For EDF5681, students should plan to allocate 6-8 hours per week to interacting with the content posted on Moodle, 1 hour per week to the tutorial, another 6 hours per week to reading and independent study activities, and another 2-4 hours to creating and designing (and soliciting feedback on) the components of your assessment task. The course is set up so that much of the reading and weekly content is directly linked to a component of the assessment. Nevertheless, allocating some extra time each week to work on assessment will help avoid last minute panics and improve results.