Assessment Type 2: Folio (30%)

Students complete two folio tasks. The folio consists of tasks designed to promote critical thinking about health and wellbeing issues. 

Tasks might include, for example: 

• review and evaluation of healthy eating, fitness, or wellbeing apps 
• evaluating a media campaign 
• analysing creative texts such as song lyrics, poetry, podcasts, video clips 
• assessing school and/or government policy and legislation 
• analysing the effectiveness of health agencies and the politics of funding  
• creating and/or performing a rap song about body image with an accompanying reflection 
• debating a contemporary health and wellbeing issue 
• analysis of a case study or scenario 
• assessing specific preventative health strategies (such as bowel screening) and making recommendations for improvement. 

Student evidence may include (but is not restricted to):  

• magazine or e-magazine article  
• podcast  
• creative response (e.g. rap song, poetry) 
• app design 
• movie clip or film trailer 
• infographic  
• report  
• presentation  
• blog/vlog  
• debate  
• essay. 

A folio task should be a maximum of 1000 words if written, or a maximum of 6 minutes if oral or in multimodal form. 

For this assessment type, students provide evidence of their learning primarily in relation to the following assessment design criteria:  

• critical thinking 
• reflective practice.