School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Curriculum Perspectives: Statistics and Probability
  • Unit Code

    EMT6000
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christine Ann ORMOND

Description

This unit is designed for graduate teachers who wish to re-train in the consolidate and enhance their understanding and pedagogical content knowledge for teaching the Australian Curriculum strand of Statistics and Probability in lower secondary mathematics classrooms. It thus teaches some necessary mathematics content skills, and also provides a refresher and a consolidation of previously held skills. In this unit, the Australian Curriculum strands of Statistics and Probability will be the focus. In order to best prepare pre-service teachers for teaching lower secondary mathematics up to an including Year 10, pedagogical strategies for teaching data and chance concepts will also be examined.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Interpret and confidently use the vocabulary and concepts of the Australian Curriculum up to a level of at least Year 10, as these relate to the strand Statistics and Probability.
  2. Select and justify pedagogical strategies for the effective teaching of data and chance concepts in a lower secondary environment.
  3. Analyse and advocate in the teaching workspace the use and importance of open- ended investigation and inquiry in developing concepts in Statistics and Probability.

Unit Content

  1. Statistics and Probability: exploring statistical data: representation and interpretation. Teaching Data concepts.
  2. Statistics and Probability: focusing on probability: quantification, and representation and interpretation. Teaching Chance concepts.
  3. Examining best practice in teaching chance and data concepts.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseData assessment questions20%
TestChance assessment questions20%
AssignmentPedagogy in the strand60%

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Curriculum Perspectives: Statistics and Probability
  • Unit Code

    EMT6000
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christine Ann ORMOND

Description

This unit is designed for graduate teachers who wish to re-train in the consolidate and enhance their understanding and pedagogical content knowledge for teaching the Australian Curriculum strand of Statistics and Probability in lower secondary mathematics classrooms. It thus teaches some necessary mathematics content skills, and also provides a refresher and a consolidation of previously held skills. In this unit, the Australian Curriculum strands of Statistics and Probability will be the focus. In order to best prepare pre-service teachers for teaching lower secondary mathematics up to an including Year 10, pedagogical strategies for teaching data and chance concepts will also be examined.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Interpret and confidently use the vocabulary and concepts of the Australian Curriculum up to a level of at least Year 10, as these relate to the strand Statistics and Probability.
  2. Select and justify pedagogical strategies for the effective teaching of data and chance concepts in a lower secondary environment.
  3. Analyse and advocate in the teaching workspace the use and importance of open- ended investigation and inquiry in developing concepts in Statistics and Probability.

Unit Content

  1. Statistics and Probability: exploring statistical data: representation and interpretation. Teaching Data concepts.
  2. Statistics and Probability: focusing on probability: quantification, and representation and interpretation. Teaching Chance concepts.
  3. Examining best practice in teaching chance and data concepts.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseData assessment questions20%
TestChance assessment questions20%
AssignmentPedagogy in the strand60%

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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