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.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Planning and Assessment in Secondary Mathematics
  • Unit Code

    MSE2102
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Grainne BARBER

Description

In this unit students will begin to consolidate their understanding of the teaching and learning of secondary school mathematics, and will look more closely at general curriculum planning and written assessment. They will achieve this through closer interrogation of the structure, philosophy and intentions of the Australian Curriculum (AC) for mathematics, supported by the WA Curriculum Framework; and by planning a sequence of mathematics lessons within a particular topic, including a written assessment. These will be linked comprehensively to relevant AC content descriptors and their elaborations. Again, emphasis will be placed upon developing a mathematical inquiry theme in teaching and learning in the AC skills strands of Number and Algebra, Statistics and Probability and Measurement and Geometry, and these will in turn be aligned with the WA CF clusters. Some senior school content and assessment will also be explored. Current resources such as texts, visual and concrete manipulatives, and computer websites, will be examined and evaluated for their teaching effectiveness.Practical teaching strategies for overcoming common mathematical misconceptions will again be explored. In this way, the unit will again focus upon the importance of classroom communication and meaningful, student-centered assessment practices, relating these ideas to relevant educational theory.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MSE2101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MSE3102, MSE3203

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically evaluate the usefulness of various print and technological resources in the mathematics classroom.
  2. Demonstrate a developing understanding the AITSL National Teacher Standards as they relate to mathematics teaching, in particular Standards 1, 2, 3, and 5.
  3. Demonstrate an increasing familiarity with the Australian Curriculum, and the way it is supported by the detail and elaborations of the DEWA K-10 Syllabus, the Outcomes and Standards Framework (OSF), and the WA Curriculum Framework (CF).
  4. Demonstrate competence in the use of technologies in a presentation and/or in learning activities (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and the internet).
  5. Explain how national testing (NAPLAN) can be used usefully in planning teaching.
  6. Explain some strategies for teaching senior school students.
  7. Use a range of formative and summative assessment strategies, also briefly considering the additional needs of Year 11 and 12 students.
  8. Use these and other curriculum support documents as a basis for curriculum decision-making and identifying progressive achievement in mathematics.
  9. Write a cohesive topic plan and a written assessment for a particular lower secondary topic in Number.

Unit Content

  1. Adding to the suite of assessment strategies examined in the pre-requisite unit (i.e. rubrics, interviews, self-reports, portfolios, open and closed questioning, projects, journal entries and observational checklists).
  2. Designing a well-timed and scaffolded sequence of lessons and an appropriate written assessment for a lower secondary cluster topic in Number.
  3. Examining how NAPLAN testing in numeracy may assist teachers? understanding of likely mathematics misconceptions or difficulties.
  4. Exploring some common conceptual difficulties in mathematics.
  5. Using appropriately the various mandated national and state curriculum documents when planning for mathematics teaching.
  6. Using technology in presenting (PowerPoint, Word).
  7. Using the available teaching resources well (including textbooks, resource books).

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 214 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered10 x 3 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

LMS documents and materials, collaborative group work and discussion, professional reading, independent study and use of multimedia technology.

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
ProjectGroup Project: Topic planning and assessment60%
AssignmentWorkshop pedagogy themes40%

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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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

    Planning and Assessment in Secondary Mathematics
  • Unit Code

    MSE2102
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Grainne BARBER

Description

In this unit students will begin to consolidate their understanding of the teaching and learning of secondary school mathematics, and will look more closely at general curriculum planning and written assessment. They will achieve this through closer interrogation of the structure, philosophy and intentions of the Australian Curriculum (AC) for mathematics, supported by the WA Curriculum Framework; and by planning a sequence of mathematics lessons within a particular topic, including a written assessment. These will be linked comprehensively to relevant AC content descriptors and their elaborations. Again, emphasis will be placed upon developing a mathematical inquiry theme in teaching and learning in the AC skills strands of Number and Algebra, Statistics and Probability and Measurement and Geometry, and these will in turn be aligned with the WA CF clusters. Some senior school content and assessment will also be explored. Current resources such as texts, visual and concrete manipulatives, and computer websites, will be examined and evaluated for their teaching effectiveness.Practical teaching strategies for overcoming common mathematical misconceptions will again be explored. In this way, the unit will again focus upon the importance of classroom communication and meaningful, student-centered assessment practices, relating these ideas to relevant educational theory.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MSE2101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MSE3102, MSE3203

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically evaluate the usefulness of various print and technological resources in the mathematics classroom.
  2. Demonstrate a developing understanding the AITSL National Teacher Standards as they relate to mathematics teaching, in particular Standards 1, 2, 3, and 5.
  3. Demonstrate an increasing familiarity with the Australian Curriculum, and the way it is supported by the detail and elaborations of the DEWA K-10 Syllabus, the Outcomes and Standards Framework (OSF), and the WA Curriculum Framework (CF).
  4. Demonstrate competence in the use of technologies in a presentation and/or in learning activities (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and the internet).
  5. Explain how national testing (NAPLAN) can be used usefully in planning teaching.
  6. Explain some strategies for teaching senior school students.
  7. Use a range of formative and summative assessment strategies, also briefly considering the additional needs of Year 11 and 12 students.
  8. Use these and other curriculum support documents as a basis for curriculum decision-making and identifying progressive achievement in mathematics.
  9. Write a cohesive topic plan and a written assessment for a particular lower secondary topic in Number.

Unit Content

  1. Adding to the suite of assessment strategies examined in the pre-requisite unit (i.e. rubrics, interviews, self-reports, portfolios, open and closed questioning, projects, journal entries and observational checklists).
  2. Designing a well-timed and scaffolded sequence of lessons and an appropriate written assessment for a lower secondary cluster topic in Number.
  3. Examining how NAPLAN testing in numeracy may assist teachers? understanding of likely mathematics misconceptions or difficulties.
  4. Exploring some common conceptual difficulties in mathematics.
  5. Using appropriately the various mandated national and state curriculum documents when planning for mathematics teaching.
  6. Using technology in presenting (PowerPoint, Word).
  7. Using the available teaching resources well (including textbooks, resource books).

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 214 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered10 x 3 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

LMS documents and materials, collaborative group work and discussion, professional reading, independent study and use of multimedia technology.

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
ProjectGroup Project: Topic planning and assessment60%
AssignmentWorkshop pedagogy themes40%

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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