Using School Data

Subject 460-637 (2008)

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Credit Points: 12.500
Level: Graduate/Postgraduate
Dates & Locations:

This subject is not offered in 2008.
Time Commitment: Contact Hours: 18 hours
Total Time Commitment: 120 hours total commitment
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: None
Core Participation Requirements:

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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Coordinator

Esther Care
Subject Overview: This subject will offer content and skills germane to the formulating and understanding of statistics-based reporting of student outcomes in school contexts. The subject content will be relevant to the needs of teaching and management staff in schools from P-12. Concepts of criterion- and norm-referenced interpretation and their implications for use of results at both individual and aggregated levels will be examined. Students will be introduced to how to identify relationships between sets of data and how the data can be used to link to curriculum and instructional strategies. The appropriateness of different levels of information for different audiences will be analysed.
Assessment: Exercises and reports equivalent to 4,000 words in total (100 per cent).
Prescribed Texts: None
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.
Fees Information: Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date
Generic Skills:

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

  • be familiar with data and evidence based concepts which underlie reporting in school contexts;
  • understand how results across different tests might relate;
  • select appropriate ways of presenting data to inform educational decision-making for a variety of stakeholders;
  • understand the nature of individual and group differences across achievement.
  • Use data as evidence based approach to planning and evaluating instruction and curriculum.
Related Course(s): Postgraduate Certificate in Assessment and Evaluation

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