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Learning from Evidence (EC&P) (EDUC91018)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
July
Overview
Availability | July - Online |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject will develop teacher candidates’ 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, teacher candidates will be exposed to ideas, methods and techniques to support high quality, evidence-based decision making.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, teacher candidates 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
All of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
EDUC90891 | Becoming a Clinical Practitioner (EC) | July (Online) |
12.5 |
EDUC90894 | Clinical Teaching Practice (EC) 3 |
February (On Campus - Parkville)
August (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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EDUC90832 | Learning From Evidence |
Term 4 (Online)
Term 2 (Online)
|
12.5 |
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
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Case study: Interpreting evidence
| Mid semester | 40% |
Reflective task based on seminar contributions
| End of the teaching period | 10% |
Case study: Using evidence to evaluate teaching and learning
| End of the assessment period | 50% |
Hurdle requirement: A minimum of 80% attendance at all scheduled tutorials, seminars and workshops | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- July - Online
Principal coordinator Ana Garcia-Melgar Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching requirements During the preteaching period, students are required to engage with materials posted on the LMS. Teaching period 29 July 2024 to 20 September 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 August 2024 Census date 23 August 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 4 October 2024 Assessment period ends 4 November 2024 July contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Griffin, P. (Ed) (2017) Assessment for Teaching (2nd Ed), Cambridge University Press, Australia
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Early Childhood and Primary)
Last updated: 10 February 2024