Students’ competence in collecting

The third assessment is a Portfolio task that demonstrates students’ competence in collecting, analysing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data. Students are to present 2 data sets (1 x qualitative, 1 x quantitative) that they generated in class and discuss the meaning that can be drawn from them in the 1, 000 word component. Step 1: Students must select 1 example of qualitative data and 1 example of quantitative data that they generated in workshops/tutorials. Analysis of reports used for Assessment 1 & 2 CANNOT be used. Step 2: Students are required to write 500 words for EACH data set that ’tells the story’ of the data they have presented. This should include: – How the data was generated (summary of method). – Their interpretation of the data i.e. what does the data SHOW/MEAN? How does it answer the research question? (analysis) – Suggestions for how the findings could be used e.g to inform policy, identify patterns in social phenomenon Step 3: Present the two data sets directly below each 500 word written component following the instructions on format