EUB002 Numeracy: Examining Barriers for Learners
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| Unit code: | EUB002 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $555 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,324 |
| International unit fee | $4,224 |
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 10A 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal (Start Date: 09 Sep 2024)
| Unit code: | EUB002 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinator: | Vicky Punter | huayu.punter@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Numeracy is a crucial component of education; however, many learners continue to cite concerns over their numeracy skills well into adulthood. Educators across disciplines and areas are needed in this area who have understandings, skills and expertise around potential barriers and equity issues in numeracy education. This unit will provide you with opportunities to explore several potential issues in numeracy education, and may include psychological, socioeconomic, cultural and/or biological factors. This unit will build on knowledge and expertise gained from core units of mathematics already studied as well as numeracy concepts explored within other curriculum subjects. This unit is critical to position you as a responsive, inclusive and resilient numeracy educator in your setting.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of barriers and equity issues in numeracy education.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of strategies for inclusive numeracy environments.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of skills and strategies that can be used to evaluate interventions within numeracy education to improve student learning.
- Demonstrate an ability to design professional learning to improve practice and communicate this knowledge to colleagues.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- barriers/issues for learners in numeracy education
- numeracy interventions
- contemporary research and theories
- international, national and state educational policy and curriculum documents/guidelines
- equity issues in numeracy education, which may include psychological, socioeconomic, cultural and/or biological barriers/issues
- ways to evaluate numeracy intervention programs,
- communicating about numeracy, numeracy education and numeracy intervention strategies to colleagues.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Workshops (online and/or face-to-face);
- Online self-directed learning;
- Personal research and readings; and;
- Collaborative activities with peers.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain feedback in this unit through participation in workshops with academics and peers. You will receive written feedback on your summative assessment from teaching staff. Feedback to you is provided through opportunities for reflection, discussion and peer-feedback in workshops and online activities via QUT Canvas.
Assessment
Overview
There are two pieces of assessment for this unit:
- A research poster drawing on what you have learnt about barriers and issues with numeracy ;
- A professional presentation of numeracy intervention which connects with Assessment 1 and builds an intervention strategy that you will prepare as a presentation for colleagues.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Research Poster
As a future educator of numeracy in your settings, you will need to understand barriers and issues that exist for becoming a numerate citizen. You will be required to identify a potential barrier/issue for numeracy education and use relevant scholarly literature to explore this, including the impact it has upon teachers of numeracy. This will form the foundation for your second assessment.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Professional presentation of numeracy intervention
This task requires you to design and record a a short film focusing on presenting the barrier/issue addressed in task one with the aim of informing other educators.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
No additional resources are required for this unit.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit. Workplace health and safety protocols in relation to computer use will apply.
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 10A 2024, Online (Start Date: 09 Sep 2024)
| Unit code: | EUB002 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
Numeracy is a crucial component of education; however, many learners continue to cite concerns over their numeracy skills well into adulthood. Educators across disciplines and areas are needed in this area who have understandings, skills and expertise around potential barriers and equity issues in numeracy education. This unit will provide you with opportunities to explore several potential issues in numeracy education, and may include psychological, socioeconomic, cultural and/or biological factors. This unit will build on knowledge and expertise gained from core units of mathematics already studied as well as numeracy concepts explored within other curriculum subjects. This unit is critical to position you as a responsive, inclusive and resilient numeracy educator in your setting.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of barriers and equity issues in numeracy education.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of strategies for inclusive numeracy environments.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of skills and strategies that can be used to evaluate interventions within numeracy education to improve student learning.
- Demonstrate an ability to design professional learning to improve practice and communicate this knowledge to colleagues.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- barriers/issues for learners in numeracy education
- numeracy interventions
- contemporary research and theories
- international, national and state educational policy and curriculum documents/guidelines
- equity issues in numeracy education, which may include psychological, socioeconomic, cultural and/or biological barriers/issues
- ways to evaluate numeracy intervention programs,
- communicating about numeracy, numeracy education and numeracy intervention strategies to colleagues.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Workshops (online and/or face-to-face);
- Online self-directed learning;
- Personal research and readings; and;
- Collaborative activities with peers.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain feedback in this unit through participation in workshops with academics and peers. You will receive written feedback on your summative assessment from teaching staff. Feedback to you is provided through opportunities for reflection, discussion and peer-feedback in workshops and online activities via QUT Canvas.
Assessment
Overview
There are two pieces of assessment for this unit:
- A research poster drawing on what you have learnt about barriers and issues with numeracy ;
- A professional presentation of numeracy intervention which connects with Assessment 1 and builds an intervention strategy that you will prepare as a presentation for colleagues.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Research Poster
As a future educator of numeracy in your settings, you will need to understand barriers and issues that exist for becoming a numerate citizen. You will be required to identify a potential barrier/issue for numeracy education and use relevant scholarly literature to explore this, including the impact it has upon teachers of numeracy. This will form the foundation for your second assessment.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Professional presentation of numeracy intervention
This task requires you to design and record a a short film focusing on presenting the barrier/issue addressed in task one with the aim of informing other educators.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
No additional resources are required for this unit.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit. Workplace health and safety protocols in relation to computer use will apply.