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LATE SUBMISSION OF WORK: All assessment tasks must be submitted by the official due date and time. In the case of a late submission for a non-timed assessment (e.g., an assignment), if special consideration has NOT been granted, a 12-hour grace period will be given after which the following deductions will be applied to the awarded assessment mark: 12 to 24 hours late = 10% deduction; for each day thereafter, an additional 10% per day or part thereof will be applied until five days beyond the due date. After this time, a mark of zero (0) will be given.
For example, an assessment worth 20% is due 5pm on 1st January. Student A submits the assessment at 1pm, 3 January. The assessment received a mark of 15/20. A 20% deduction is then applied to the mark of 15, resulting in the loss of three (3) marks. Student A is then awarded a final mark of 12/20.
FINAL EXAM POLICY: There is no final exam for this unit.
Module 1 Test
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test Indicative Time on Task 2: 2 hours Due: Week 4 Weighting: 15% This is a hurdle assessment task (see assessment policy for more information on hurdle assessment tasks)
This quiz will test the ability of students to summarise a data set numerically and graphically, and to understand and interpret the output of such analyses.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Organise and summarise data graphically and numerically.
- Evaluate the appropriateness of statistical methodologies when analysing a variety of problems arising from other fields of research.
Module 2 test
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test Indicative Time on Task 2: 2 hours Due: Week 6 Weighting: 15% This is a hurdle assessment task (see assessment policy for more information on hurdle assessment tasks)
This quiz will test the ability of students to analyse and solve statistical problems leveraging the properties of distributions and sampling distributions.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Organise and summarise data graphically and numerically.
- Analyse and solve problems about distributions and sampling distributions.
- Evaluate the appropriateness of statistical methodologies when analysing a variety of problems arising from other fields of research.
Module 3 test
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test Indicative Time on Task 2: 2 hours Due: Week 8 Weighting: 15% This is a hurdle assessment task (see assessment policy for more information on hurdle assessment tasks)
This quiz will test the ability of students to answer research questions about population means.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Organise and summarise data graphically and numerically.
- Analyse and solve problems about distributions and sampling distributions.
- Evaluate and apply statistical strategies to answer a research question.
- Draw conclusions from the results of a statistical analysis.
- Evaluate the appropriateness of statistical methodologies when analysing a variety of problems arising from other fields of research.
Module 4 test
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test Indicative Time on Task 2: 2 hours Due: Week 10 Weighting: 15% This is a hurdle assessment task (see assessment policy for more information on hurdle assessment tasks)
This quiz will test the ability of students to answer research questions about the linear relationship between two numerical random variables.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Organise and summarise data graphically and numerically.
- Analyse and solve problems about distributions and sampling distributions.
- Evaluate and apply statistical strategies to answer a research question.
- Draw conclusions from the results of a statistical analysis.
- Evaluate the appropriateness of statistical methodologies when analysing a variety of problems arising from other fields of research.
Module 5 test
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test Indicative Time on Task 2: 2 hours Due: Week 12 Weighting: 15% This is a hurdle assessment task (see assessment policy for more information on hurdle assessment tasks)
This quiz will test the ability of students to answer research questions about the appropriateness of models for a categorical random variable, and the independence of two categorical random variables.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Organise and summarise data graphically and numerically.
- Analyse and solve problems about distributions and sampling distributions.
- Evaluate and apply statistical strategies to answer a research question.
- Draw conclusions from the results of a statistical analysis.
- Evaluate the appropriateness of statistical methodologies when analysing a variety of problems arising from other fields of research.
Statistical report
Assessment Type 1: Quantitative analysis task Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours Due: Week 13 Weighting: 25%
This assignment will test your ability to interpret research questions, analyse a data set and write a statistical report based on the results of the analyses.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Organise and summarise data graphically and numerically.
- Analyse and solve problems about distributions and sampling distributions.
- Evaluate and apply statistical strategies to answer a research question.
- Draw conclusions from the results of a statistical analysis.
- Evaluate the appropriateness of statistical methodologies when analysing a variety of problems arising from other fields of research.
- Demonstrate the ability to write a report based on a statistical analysis, using modern, specialised statistical software for analysis and presentation of results.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
- the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
- the Learning Skills Unit for academic skills support.
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation