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Using Data To Build Learning Pathways (EDUC90756)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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July
Overview
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In this subject, participants will develop a theoretical and practical understanding of the principles of assessment and reporting for students with additional needs. The emphasis will be on data collection, its purpose, and strengths and weaknesses of various approaches that are consistent with practice in Victorian schools.
Participants will learn about the interpretation and use of different forms of data to support decisions about learning programs for students with additional needs. Data derived from both informal and formal methods of assessment will be considered, including classroom observation and work samples, large scale testing programs, and specialist assessments. Participants will develop skills in evaluating different forms of assessment and reporting in terms of their usefulness to inform classroom practice.
Links between assessment and curriculum will be examined, and connected to evidence-based decision making and developmental frameworks. The importance and use of various approaches to gathering evidence, interpretation of developmental frameworks, and reporting will be examined and practised. Skills in combining evidence of learning to form assessment for teaching, recording and reporting purposes will be developed.
Intended learning outcomes
Upon completion of this subject, participants will be able to:
- Practise and evaluate different approaches to collecting evidence of learning for students with additional needs.
- Interpret assessment data using formal interpretative frameworks.
- Locate students on a learning pathway.
- Identify, design and defend differentiated intervention strategies for students within the format of an individualised learning program.
- Link curriculum, and teaching and learning resources to assessment data for individual students and groups of students.
- Monitor student development on a learning pathway.
- Report to stakeholders about student learning and make recommendations for support and intervention.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject participants will have the knowledge, skills and understanding to enable them to:
- Effectively articulate and justify their practices as knowledgeable agents of change;
- Understand the significance of developing their practice on the basis of research evidence;
- Use the language of the discipline to extend knowledge and understanding from diverse perspectives for a range of audiences.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Assessment
Additional details
There are three assessment tasks:
- Reflective task 1 (1250 words) due week 5, 25%
- Reflective task 2 (1250 words) due week 10, 25%
- Case Study Individual Learning Plan (2500 words) due end of semester, 50%
This subject has a minimum hurdle requirement of 80% attendance at all tutorials, seminars and workshops.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- July
Principal coordinator Lisa McKay-Brown Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 22 July 2019 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students are requried to read the Schedule folder on the subject's LMS site and to complete preparatory reading which can be downloaded from the Readings & Recources section of the subject's LMS site. Teaching period 28 July 2019 to 12 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 23 July 2019 Census date 16 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2019 Assessment period ends 1 November 2019 July contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Griffin, P. (2014). Assessment for Teaching. Cambridge University Press.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Learning Intervention Course Master of Education Course Graduate Certificate in Learning Intervention Course Master of Education - Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 10 February 2024