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Assessment Item 3: Statistical Data Collection and Interpretation Objective
Assessment Item 3: Statistical Data Collection and Interpretation Objective
Objective:
This assessment task requires you to collect, analyse and interpret data with appropriate discussion and inter-
pretation.
Statistics is used, here, to find a pattern within the data. Present your data and findings in the most meaningful
way so that it is interesting to a professional audience. Keep in mind that this is a literature unit, as such your
work will require a literature introduction and a discussion supported by literature. This assignment is not
about filling the gap highlighted in Assessment Item 2.
Your submitted report will be marked according to the marking rubric associated with this assessment. Assess-
ment Item 3 is worth 20% of the total assessment for this unit.
Assessment requirements:
• Make sure that any analysis you present is your own work and not simply a summary of what is presented
in the source or reference materials.
• Justify the use of the sample data and the parameters under investigation.
• Show all of the calculations (but be careful not to break from the technical report format).
• Use a basic and common font (i.e. Arial or Times New Roman).
• Your submission should be in a simple text-based format, with an appropriate layout consisting of sections
(with section headings). For example, your section headings may be something like the following:
1. Introduction
2. Parameters and the sample population
3. Collected data
4. Descriptive statistics
5. Correlation
6. Results discussion
7. Conclusions
Note: you do not have to use these headings, they are meant to be an example only.
Submission deadline:
Your paper must be submitted via CloudDeakin by 5:00 pm Monday the 11th of May. You may submit your
paper in either .doc or .docx format. Hard copies or other electronic file formats will not be accepted.