Stage 2 | Subject Outline | Versions control
Health and Wellbeing
Stage 2
Subject outline
Accredited in November 2019 for teaching at Stage 2 from 2021. This subject replaces Stage 2 Health.
Stage 2 | Subject outline | External assessment | assessment-type-3-inquiry
Assessment Type 3: Inquiry (30%)
Students undertake one inquiry.
For the inquiry, students independently research a contemporary health and wellbeing issue. They develop a question or hypothesis about an issue to investigate and analyse, and make recommendations about the issue. Students use a variety of sources of information from different perspectives to form their conclusions.
The inquiry may include the following:
- outline of the scope of the question or hypothesis
- explanation of the nature of the issue from different perspectives
- critical analysis of the data or information collected
- evaluation of current personal and/or social action or strategies to address the issue
- recommendations for future initiatives to improve health and wellbeing outcomes.
The inquiry should be a maximum of 2000 words if written, or a maximum of 12 minutes if oral or in multimodal form.
The following specific features of the assessment design criteria for this subject are assessed in the investigation:
- critical thinking — CT1, CT3
- reflective practice — RP1, RP2.