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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Assessment and Learning in Lower Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Unit Code

    HSS3213
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Olivia JOHNSTON

Description

This unit offers an in-depth study of various teacher preparation processes for teaching and learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area at the lower secondary level. Emphasis will be on various assessment, recording, reporting and monitoring systems, planning excursions, skills, values, civics and citizenship learning. Participants will explore web based curriculum materials and utilise these in their preparation processes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SSE2213, SSE3213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain and utilise the framework and achievement standards of all lower secondary levels of the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  2. Develop learning units or tasks with a focus on knowledge and understandings, skills and values in the four subjects of the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  3. Design and produce teaching support materials for learners.
  4. Apply reflective practice principles to analyse and refine short term learning plans.
  5. Critically examine recording and reporting techniques.
  6. Identify and utilise web based Humanities and Social Sciences support materials and resources.
  7. Design and evaluate various monitoring and marking schema that will inform the learning process.

Unit Content

  1. Western Australia's K-10 Curriculum in HASS (and its relationship to the Australian Curriculum).
  2. Planning for learning in Humanities and Social Sciences, lesson plans for multi-level and single level classes.
  3. Preparation of teacher notes and teaching aids for lower secondary students.
  4. Planning processes for excursions, policies and issues for implementation.
  5. Principles of assessment and their implementation in the learning area.
  6. Strategies for devising valid, comprehensive, educative, explicit and comprehensive assessments.
  7. Marking keys, rubrics and checklists: issues of transparent assessments, monitoring, reporting and recording.
  8. Processes for developing a variety of learning experiences based on learning values, concepts and using ICTs.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, e-learning, template learning, independent and group based learning, excursions and incursions.

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
AssignmentAssignment50%
PresentationPresentation50%

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 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. 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, 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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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Assessment and Learning in Lower Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Unit Code

    HSS3213
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Olivia JOHNSTON

Description

This unit offers an in-depth study of various teacher preparation processes for teaching and learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area at the lower secondary level. Emphasis will be on various assessment, recording, reporting and monitoring systems, planning excursions, skills, values, civics and citizenship learning. Participants will explore web based curriculum materials and utilise these in their preparation processes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SSE2213, SSE3213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain and utilise the framework and achievement standards of all lower secondary levels of the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  2. Develop learning units or tasks with a focus on knowledge and understandings, skills and values in the four subjects of the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  3. Design and produce teaching support materials for learners.
  4. Apply reflective practice principles to analyse and refine short term learning plans.
  5. Critically examine recording and reporting techniques.
  6. Identify and utilise web based Humanities and Social Sciences support materials and resources.
  7. Design and evaluate various monitoring and marking schema that will inform the learning process.

Unit Content

  1. Western Australia's K-10 Curriculum in HASS (and its relationship to the Australian Curriculum).
  2. Planning for learning in Humanities and Social Sciences, lesson plans for multi-level and single level classes.
  3. Preparation of teacher notes and teaching aids for lower secondary students.
  4. Planning processes for excursions, policies and issues for implementation.
  5. Principles of assessment and their implementation in the learning area.
  6. Strategies for devising valid, comprehensive, educative, explicit and comprehensive assessments.
  7. Marking keys, rubrics and checklists: issues of transparent assessments, monitoring, reporting and recording.
  8. Processes for developing a variety of learning experiences based on learning values, concepts and using ICTs.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, e-learning, template learning, independent and group based learning, excursions and incursions.

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
AssignmentAssignment50%
PresentationPresentation50%

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 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. 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, 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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