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 Assessment for the Lower Secondary Social Sciences
  • Unit Code

    SSE6622
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Andrew Charles JONES

Description

The main goal of this course is to enable students to reflect critically on curriculum and pedagogy in Social Sciences at the secondary level. Current practices and issues in teaching/learning and assessment of learning in lower secondary school will be introduced. The focus will be on the development of knowledge and skills that will facilitate the design and implementation of a variety of teaching/learning strategies and curriculum appropriate and valid assessment strategies. These should reflect the needs and interests of a diverse group of learners and school systems.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design and develop a variety of alternative and traditional assessment devices.
  2. Design and evaluate various monitoring and marking schema that will inform the learning process.
  3. Evaluate and apply the principles of assessment.
  4. Evaluate and develop appropriate monitoring, recording and reporting systems to satisfy the monitoring/evaluation/assessment protocols of the learning area in different school systems.
  5. Evaluate and develop learning strategies that are designed to actively involve all students in learning.
  6. Evaluate and manage recording and reporting techniques.

Unit Content

  1. Current trends, issues and resources in the Social Sciences.
  2. Marking keys, rubrics, reflective practice, traditional and alternative assessment strategies.
  3. Monitoring/assessment/evaluation: principles and practices for an outcomes-based approach to the assessment of learning.
  4. Recoding, reporting learning development.
  5. Use of technology and textbooks.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, use of multi-media technology. Blackboard documents and materials. Collaborative group work and discussion. Professional reading. Independent study.

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%
AssignmentAssignment50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment60%
ExaminationExamination40%

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

    Planning Assessment for the Lower Secondary Social Sciences
  • Unit Code

    SSE6622
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Andrew Charles JONES

Description

The main goal of this course is to enable students to reflect critically on curriculum and pedagogy in Social Sciences at the secondary level. Current practices and issues in teaching/learning and assessment of learning in lower secondary school will be introduced. The focus will be on the development of knowledge and skills that will facilitate the design and implementation of a variety of teaching/learning strategies and curriculum appropriate and valid assessment strategies. These should reflect the needs and interests of a diverse group of learners and school systems.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design and develop a variety of alternative and traditional assessment devices.
  2. Design and evaluate various monitoring and marking schema that will inform the learning process.
  3. Evaluate and apply the principles of assessment.
  4. Evaluate and develop appropriate monitoring, recording and reporting systems to satisfy the monitoring/evaluation/assessment protocols of the learning area in different school systems.
  5. Evaluate and develop learning strategies that are designed to actively involve all students in learning.
  6. Evaluate and manage recording and reporting techniques.

Unit Content

  1. Current trends, issues and resources in the Social Sciences.
  2. Marking keys, rubrics, reflective practice, traditional and alternative assessment strategies.
  3. Monitoring/assessment/evaluation: principles and practices for an outcomes-based approach to the assessment of learning.
  4. Recoding, reporting learning development.
  5. Use of technology and textbooks.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, use of multi-media technology. Blackboard documents and materials. Collaborative group work and discussion. Professional reading. Independent study.

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%
AssignmentAssignment50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment60%
ExaminationExamination40%

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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