Embedding Graduate Attributes in Assessment Tasks
Teaching & Learning Highlights 10 What kinds of graduates do universities wish to produce, and how should they go about doing so? Recently, Australian universities have had to grapple seriously with this question in response to the Federal government’s decision to tie the funding of each university to their quality of teaching. This note will present the steps taken by my university and department to embed attributes which are considered desirable in our graduates. Although I shall be mainly describing my experience in the discipline of law, the measures taken are readily applicable to other disciplines.
Background ::: Anthropometric models remain appropriate alternatives to estimate body composition of peripubertal populations. However, these traditional models do not consider other body components that undergo major changes during peripubertal growth spurt, with restrictions to a multicompartimental approach as a quantitative growth. DXA has great potential to determine pediatric body composition in more than one component (3-C), but has limited use in field settings. Thus, the aim of this study was to propose and validate an anthropometric model for simultaneous estimation of lean soft tissue (LST), bone mineral content (BMC) and fat mass (FM) in healthy girls, from a multivariate approach of densitometric technique, as the criterion method.