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.