School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Programming and Assessment in Numeracy
  • Unit Code

    CUR6020
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kevin SULLIVAN

Description

This unit examines the cycle of assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and reflection in the process of planning mathematics learning. Pre-service Teachers will analyse, reflect upon and synthesise their knowledge about mathematics teaching and learning in order to inform planning for classroom practice. This unit is available to students enrolled in both the on-campus and online modes of delivery.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed LAN6260 and MPE6115 to enrol in this unit.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design and evaluate a sequence of learning to teach designated mathematical content that includes setting mathematical learning goals, learning activities, ICT, assessment of student learning and appropriate teaching strategies.
  2. Evaluate assessment strategies, including informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess and provide feedback on mathematical learning in a primary school context.
  3. Collaborate with colleagues to problem solve and reach consensus around strategies for assessment and moderation of mathematical learning in a primary school context.
  4. Research and plan differentiated teaching strategies that incorporate appropriate mathematical literacies to meet the learning needs of a diverse range of students, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
  5. Critically reflect on effective assessment and moderation strategies for quality mathematics teaching and learning, and the implications for teaching practice and schools in a primary context.

Unit Content

  1. Function and creation of mathematical learning goals.
  2. Principles of planning mathematical lesson sequences.
  3. Established theories that inform the selection of a range of teaching strategies in mathematics.
  4. Use of a variety of mathematics resources.
  5. Principles of evaluating mathematics teaching programs.
  6. Interpretation and transmission of knowledge, skills and ideas of mathematics pedagogy to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  7. Appropriate assessment techniques in mathematics.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 110 x 3 hour seminar10 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorial workshops, discussion and related research

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 1 - Moderation50%
AssignmentMathematics Planning Document50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 1 - Moderation50%
AssignmentMathematics Planning Document50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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