My Report for the Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Ed.) was on the integration of physics with physiotherapy in a first level service course.
The full report is available via the link below.

Brief Description

The report discusses in detail an action learning project I undertook in semester 2, 2001. In this, I re-designed the assessment in a first level physics course for physiotherapy students (the course also has a physiotherapy component which is mostly on electrotherapy). The focus of the change was on moving towards context-based learning, so students were required to analyse situiations in physiotherapy in terms of the underliying physics. Since students would be unable to do this in the limited time of examinations, the assessment was mostly based on assignments.

The outcomes of the project were positive, with students generally:

performing well on assessment items
appreciating the relevance of the course
maintaining a comparatively positive attitude towards the course
performing comparatively well in the assessment of related topics in the physiotherapy component

From the results of this project, it appears that teaching physics embedded in relevant contexts helps students to learn, and a reduction of the emphasis on mathematics leads to deeper conceptual learning.

To improve the course further, I intend to design lecture material based on a similar ideology, and refine the tutorial system. Group assignments may be used to reduce the marking load entailed by having assignments submitted individually.