| Title | Assessment 1 |
| Type | Critical Review |
| Due Date | Friday, 13 September, 11:59 pm AEST/AEDT (End of Week 3) |
| Length | 750 min – 1000 max words : NO 10% ALLOWED |
| Weighting | 30% |
| Academic Integrity | Please note that the use of GenAI is NOT permitted. |
| Submission | Word document submitted to Turnitin. |
| Unit Learning Outcomes | This assessment task maps to the following ULOs:
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Rationale
The aim of this assessment is to provide students with a meaningful and practical opportunity to analyse and apply theoretical knowledge and concepts to real-world issues implicating social work within human services organizations. By critically reviewing a case study students can deepen their understanding of the challenges faced by individuals within bureaucratic systems.
You are required to critically analyse the portrayal of social and human service organisations and management in the movie I, Daniel Blake. In your analysis, discuss how relevant theories and concepts apply to the depiction of organisational dynamics in the movie. Additionally, explain the significant organisational issues highlighted in the movie, including the relationships with management and the importance of effective communication within and across social work organisations. Your response should demonstrate a deep understanding of organisational theories and their relevance to social work practice, as depicted in the movie.
Introduction – Briefly introduce the movie I, Daniel Blake, state its purpose and highlight the organisational theories and issues depicted in the movie.
Organisational theories analysis - Identify at least two organizational theories pertinent to the movie, offer a concise explanation of each chosen theory, and use them to analyse particular scenes or interactions within the movie, citing examples from the movie using the format: author, date, timestamp (e.g., Coles, 2025, 22:20mins); cite and reference other resources as normal.
Organisational issues in social work practice - Identify at least two significant organizational issues and examine the dynamics of the relationships between social or human service workers and management as depicted in the movie, citing specific examples. Critically analyse the effectiveness and/or otherwise of communication within and among the organizations shown in the movie, indicating their effects on service provision and client outcomes.
Conclusion - Summarise and reflect on the implications of your analysis for social work practice in organizations. No new information! (Use formal language throughout).
The Critical review should be submitted using the Turnitin activity titled Assessment 1: Critical Review in the Assessments Tasks and Submission section on the Blackboard SWRK6004 site. Only Microsoft Word documents submitted via the Turnitin portal on Blackboard will be accepted. You must label your submission with your surname and initials and the assessment task's name, e.g.
JonathanK_CriticalReview.doc
At Southern Cross University academic integrity means behaving with the values of honesty, fairness, trustworthiness, courage, responsibility, and respect in relation to academic work.
The Southern Cross University Academic Integrity Framework aims to develop a holistic, systematic, and consistent approach to addressing academic integrity across the entire University. For more information see the SCU Academic Integrity Framework
NOTE: Academic Integrity breaches include unacceptable use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, the use of GenAI has not been appropriately acknowledged or is beyond the acceptable limit as defined in the Assessment, poor referencing, not identifying direct quotations correctly, close paraphrasing, plagiarism, recycling, misrepresentation, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, fabricating information.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGPT, must not be used for this Assessment Task. You are required to demonstrate if you have developed the unit's skills and knowledge without the support of GenAI. If you use GenAI tools in your assessment task, it may result in an academic integrity breach against you as described in the Student Academic and Non-Academic Misconduct Rules, Section 3.
Special Consideration
Please refer to the Special Consideration section of Policy https://policies.scu.edu.au/document/view- current.php?id=140
Late Submissions & Penalties
Please refer to the Late Submission & Penalties section of Policy https://policies.scu.edu.au/view.current.php?id=00255
Grades & Feedback
Assessments that have been submitted by the due date will receive an SCU grade. Grades and feedback will be posted to the 'Grades and Feedback' section on the Blackboard unit site. Please allow 7 days for marks to be posted.
Description of SCU Grades
High Distinction:
The student's performance, in addition to satisfying all of the basic learning requirements, demonstrates distinctive insight and ability in researching, analysing and applying relevant skills and concepts, and shows exceptional ability to synthesise, integrate and evaluate knowledge. The student's performance could be described as outstanding in relation to the learning requirements specified.
The student's performance, in addition to satisfying all of the basic learning requirements, demonstrates distinctive insight and ability in researching, analysing and applying relevant skills and concepts, and shows a well-developed ability to synthesise, integrate and evaluate knowledge. The student's performance could be described as distinguished in relation to the learning requirements specified.
The student's performance, in addition to satisfying all of the basic learning requirements specified, demonstrates insight and ability in researching, analysing and applying relevant skills and concepts. The student's performance could be described as competent in relation to the learning requirements specified.
The student's performance satisfies all of the basic learning requirements specified and provides a sound basis for proceeding to higher-level studies in the subject area. The student's performance could be described as satisfactory in relation to the learning requirements specified.
The student's performance fails to satisfy the learning requirements specified.
For the Assessment rubric (please note that the grades shown are the mid-point grades (e.g., 65- 74% is C, (mid-point is 70%); any mark within the range remains a C).
strengths or weaknesses; evaluative criteria are unique and interesting.
Uses creativity to interpret text (e.g., placesit in an interesting contextor compares/contrasts with other relevant texts);provides a highly insightful implications for practice/ or integration of knowledge to future practice. | Provides clear insight into the text'sstrengths or weaknesses; evaluative criteria are unique and interesting.
Uses good judgment to interpret text (e.g.,compares/contrasts with other relevant texts);provides an insightful implication for practice/ or integration of knowledge to future practice | Provides clearevaluation of text'sweaknesses or strengths; evaluative criteriaare unique and interesting.
Puts text in meaningful contextwhen interpreting it. Provides excellent implications for practice/ or integration of knowledge to futurepractice | strengths of the text;evaluative criteria are used.
Places text in context.
Provides a strong insightful implication for practice/ or integration of knowledge to future practice | strengths of the text;evaluative criteria are used.
Places text in context, though one or more concepts are insufficiently addressed or out of context.
Provides a sound,insightful implication for practice/ or integration of knowledge to future practice | Insufficient attempt to present the weaknesses or strengths of the text;evaluative criteria are unclear.
Insufficient attempt to put the text in context. Provides implication for practice/ or integration of knowledge to future practice | Poor to no attemptto present the weaknesses or strengths of the text;no obvious criteria for evaluation. Poor to no attempt to put textin context.
Mentions implication for practice/ or integration of knowledge to future practice | No attempt to present the weaknesses or strengths of the text;no obvious criteria for evaluation. Poor or no attemptto put text in context.
May or may not mention implication for practice/ or integration of knowledge to future practice | ||
| Criteria 3 (10% of allocated marks): Organisation, referencing (APA7) and writing(follows given format) | HD+ (100%) | HD (90%) | D (80%) | C (70%) | P (60%) | P- (50%) | F (40%) | F- (20%) | NA (0%) |
Review is very wellorganised, containing an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Demonstrates exceptional writingand referencing skills Writing and referencing are free of any errors Quality of writing ensuresall points of discussion conveyed clearly and convincingly | Review is well organised, containing an introduction, bodyparagraphs, and conclusion. Demonstrates excellent writingand referencing skills All referencing is accurate Writing containsonly very few minor errors that do not detract from clarity of discussion | Review is organised, containing an introduction, bodyparagraphs, and conclusion. Demonstrates well-developed writing and referencing skills All referencing is accurate. Writing contains infrequent minor errors affecting clarity of discussion in a smallnumber of places. | Review has separate introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion, but connections among these could be improved. Demonstrates competent writingand referencing skills.Referencing is accurate. Writing contains multiple minor errors affecting clarity of discussion in several places | Distinction betweenintroduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion need improvement. Demonstrates satisfactory writingand referencing skills Some minor errors in referencing Writing contains multiple minor errors affecting clarity of discussion in several places | Distinction betweenintroduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion is unclear. Demonstrates mostlysatisfactory writing and referencing skillsSome errors andomissions in referencing Writing contains numerous errorsthat limit overallquality of discussion | General structure of reviewis difficult to follow, and/orstudent failed to follow the prescribed format.Demonstrates unsatisfactory writing and referencing skillsNumerous errors and omissions in referencing throughout Writing contains frequent errorsthroughout that impactreadability | General structure of review is confusing, hard to follow,and/or student failedto follow the prescribed format. Demonstrates highlyunsatisfactory writing and ref skills;Refs does not comply with APA. Paper contains frequent andserious errors throughout. | Criteria not addressed |
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