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Learning From Evidence (EDUC90832)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Term 2
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Term 4
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability | Term 2 - Online Term 4 - Online |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject will develop participants’ skills in using student achievement data to inform teaching practice to support student learning. It will consider the use of a wide range of data types and sources to evaluate learning, teaching and assessment and make recommendations for improving practice. Through case studies and practical activities, participants will be exposed to ideas, methods and techniques to support high quality, evidence-based decision making.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, participants should be able to:
- Identify evidence suitable to the purpose
- Determine relevant and ethical methods of data collection, storage and recording
- Use approaches and tools to analyse and interpret data within a clinical teaching cycle
- Use the interpretation of data to test hypotheses and inform decisions within clinical practice
- Differentiate teaching based on the interpretation of data
- Synthesise multiple sources of data and use them to evaluate the impact of teaching
- Evaluate the limitations of evidence in both practice and research
Generic skills
- Analytical skills and the ability to construct and express logical arguments.
- Capacity to critique and use appropriately a range of evidence and data.
- Problem solving skills, including engaging with, researching and identifying strategies to solve unfamiliar problems.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Students must have completed:
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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EDUC90828 | Clinical Teaching and Learning |
Term 1 (Online)
Term 3 (Online)
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12.5 |
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
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Contributions to 8 online discussions
| Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
Case study: Interpreting evidence, due mid term
| During the teaching period | 40% |
Case study: Using evidence to evaluate teaching and learning
| End of the teaching period | 50% |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- Term 2 - Online
Principal coordinator Jane Strickland Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 20 April 2020 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students should familiarise themselves with the online platform and may like to take the opportunity to read through preliminary information about the subject and the services and support that is available to them. Students are encouraged to use this time to also introduce themselves to peers and teaching staff and to learn about those they will be studying with throughout the term. Teaching period 27 April 2020 to 21 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 21 April 2020 Census date 15 May 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 28 June 2020 Term 2 contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
- Term 4 - Online
Principal coordinator Jane Strickland Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 5 October 2020 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students should familiarise themselves with the online platform and may like to take the opportunity to read through preliminary information about the subject and the services and support that is available to them. Students are encouraged to use this time to also introduce themselves to peers and teaching staff and to learn about those they will be studying with throughout the term. Teaching period 12 October 2020 to 6 December 2020 Last self-enrol date 6 October 2020 Census date 30 October 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 November 2020 Assessment period ends 13 December 2020 Term 4 contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Griffin (Ed) (2014) Assessment for Teaching, Cambridge University Press, Australia.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Education in Evidence-Based Teaching Course Master of Clinical Teaching - 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.
Additional information for this subject
Subject coordinator approval required.
Last updated: 10 February 2024