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COURSE TITLE INSTITUTE UNIT NUMBER 3

Foundation Certificate

UNIT TITLE THREE of 3 Integrated Skills

Foundation Mathematics ATTEMPT NUMBER First

ASSIGNMENT NUMBER ASSIGNMENT TITLE DATE SET HAND-IN DATE INTERNAL VERIFIER/S ASSESSOR/S LEARNERS NAME I.D. CARD NUMBER
OUTCOMES (MATHEMATICS)

Week Starting 30/04/12 Week Starting 21/05/12

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

To achieve each outcome a student must demonstrate the ability to:

2. Carry out harder numerical calculations. P2.2 Work with fractions or percentages to solve mathematical problems originating from real-life situations. 3. Collect data and represent it graphically P3.1 Collect, classify and tabulate statistical data. P3.2 Construct the appropriate type of visual statistical representations from tabulated data. 4. Use simple probability theory P4.1 Use data to calculate the probability of a single event. P4.2 Interpret a probability result and its predictability within the context of a statistical experiment. Learner declaration: I confirm that the work submitted for this assignment is my own work. _________________________ (signature) ___________________ (date)

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COURSE TITLE INSTITUTE UNIT NUMBER 4

Foundation Certificate

UNIT TITLE THREE of 4 Integrated Skills

IT Key Skills ATTEMPT NUMBER First

ASSIGNMENT NUMBER ASSIGNMENT TITLE DATE SET HAND-IN DATE INTERNAL VERIFIER/S ASSESSOR/S LEARNERS NAME I.D. CARD NUMBER
OUTCOMES (IT)

Week Starting 30/04/12 Week Starting 21/05/12

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

To achieve each outcome a student must demonstrate the ability to:

2. Be able to proficiently use Microsoft Office Word 2007 P2.3 Create and edit small-sized word processing documents that will be ready to share and distribute. P2.4 Apply different formats to documents to enhance them before distribution and recognize good practice in choosing the appropriate formatting options. P2.5 Insert tables, images and drawn objects into documents. P2.7 Adjust document page settings and check and correct spelling before printing documents. 3. Be able to proficiently use Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Learner declaration: I confirm that the work submitted for this assignment is my own work. _________________________ (signature) ___________________ (date) P3.4 Edit rows and columns in a worksheet. Copy, move, delete and appropriately rename worksheets. P3.7 Choose, create and format charts to communicate information meaningfully.

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COURSE TITLE INSTITUTE UNIT NUMBER 3

Foundation Certificate

UNIT TITLE THREE of 3 Integrated Skills

Key Skills English ATTEMPT NUMBER First

ASSIGNMENT NUMBER ASSIGNMENT TITLE DATE SET HAND-IN DATE INTERNAL VERIFIER/S ASSESSOR/S LEARNERS NAME I.D. CARD NUMBER
OUTCOMES (ENGLISH)

Week Starting 30/04/12 Week Starting 21/05/12

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

To achieve each outcome a student must demonstrate the ability to:

3. Make requests and respond appropriately to various text P3.1 Ask suitable questions in relation to everyday and/or workplace contexts.

4.

Be able to plan, draft, edit and present personal and technical information

P4.2 Plan, draft, edit and present information effectively in writing.

Learner declaration: I confirm that the work submitted for this assignment is my own work. _________________________ (signature) ___________________ (date)

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General Assignment Guidelines

This assignment combines Key Skills in English, Mathematics and IT. It is divided into tasks, which correspond to specific outcomes in English, Mathematics and IT. All tasks are to be attempted. You need to present TWO printed copies of this assignment, which you will hand in to your English and Mathematics assessor. Present ONE soft copy version of this assignment to your IT assessor. The write-up, describing your survey results, and the questionnaire should appear in all three assignment copies.

Scenario
Your institute is carrying out a small survey on general interests and habits. You have offered to obtain this information yourself by designing and carrying out a short questionnaire. Your survey topic must be related to the vocational area taught at your institute (as far as possible).

Required
1. Based on the above scenario, choose an area to research among your fellow classmates or other people. 2. Select a topic that is related to your area of study. Your tutor will help you to select this topic. 3. You are to individually create and hand out a questionnaire to collect data on this topic. 4. Finally, you are to tabulate the data collected and produce a short write up on the findings obtained.
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Drafting and Formatting the Questionnaire Task 1 covers ENGLISH Criterion P3.1

Task 1
On an individual basis, you should decide the questions to be used in your questionnaire. Prepare a first draft. Your questionnaire should contain a total of 6 questions and needs to be in English. An introduction to yourself, your course and your topic/objective of your survey is necessary. Also ask if the participants are willing to fill out the questionnaire. Write this introduction at the start of the questionnaire.

A questionnaire sample (see Sample Questionnaire attached) has been provided to give you a visual indication of the point described above.

One of the questions must ask for the persons gender, and another question must ask for the age.

One of the age groups must be between 17 and 19 years. The remaining 4 questions can be about anything you like, focusing on your institutes vocational area (as far as possible).

The draft questionnaire must be discussed with your English and Mathematics tutors before it can be carried out.

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Task 2 covers IT Criteria P2.3, P2.4, P2.5 and P2.7 Task 2

The questionnaire is to be prepared using Microsoft Word and you are to hand in a soft copy for this task. ALL of the following specifications must be present in the questionnaire. Left and right margins set as 2.5 cm. Header to display: Your institute on left hand side in bold formatting Your name on right hand side in italic formatting

Footer to contain an automated date field. Text size of header and footer to be 9 point. Questionnaire heading (title) to be centred, in bold formatting and font size equal to 18 point.

Adequate use of bullets and/or numbering. Adequate use of symbols. Adequate use of tables or tabs to align different items. Adequate alignment of text. Document to be spell-checked. Questionnaire to include a relevant picture anywhere on the page. Border to be added to the whole questionnaire. Questionnaire to fit on one A4 page.

A questionnaire sample (see Sample Questionnaire attached) has been provided to give you a visual indication of the points described above.
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Collecting and Tabulating Data Task 3 covers MATHEMATICS Criterion P3.1

Task 3
When your questionnaire is ready and you have discussed it with your tutors, you are to give it to 20 people to collect the required data. Once the questionnaires have been returned, you are to tabulate your results for each question using an appropriate format. The tabulated data has to be provided as an Excel workbook in soft copy and hard copy format. The 20 complete questionnaires should also be provided with the hard copy.

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Analysing Data

Task 4 covers MATHEMATICS Criterion P3.2 and IT Criteria P3.4 and P3.7 Task 4
Once the data required has been collected and tabulated, you are to present the results of each question graphically. You must use at least one bar graph, one pie chart and one pictogram. At least one of the pie charts must be drawn by hand. The visual representations have to be provided as an Excel workbook in soft copy and hard copy format.

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All the following specifications must appear. All charts have to be on a separate worksheet. All charts have to be appropriately named. All charts must show a title, legend and data labels. Pie charts are to show the percentage data label. Other charts are to show the value data label.

A sample (see Sample Charts attached) has been provided to give you a visual indication of the points described above.

Task 5 covers MATHEMATICS Criterion P4.1 Task 5

Use the data you obtained from your questionnaire to find the following probabilities: (a) P (male) (b) P (age more than 16) (c) P (age less than 20)

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Task 6 covers ENGLISH Criterion P4.2 and MATHEMATICS Criteria P2.2 and P4.2 Task 6
When you have drafted your questionnaire, you are now asked to write a short write-up with the following details: Describe how you chose the 20 persons who filled out your questionnaire. Your description must: 1. indicate what the objective behind your topic was 2. indicate how many participants were male and female 3. their age group 4. if they were randomly chosen or not. If no, state how they were chosen. For each question asked in the questionnaire, write down a few sentences in English to highlight the main findings for that question. 3 of these sentences must describe these findings by using fractions or percentages (E.g. Twenty percent of the people answering my questionnaire were female). Conclude your write-up by writing 3 sentences in English to discuss the probability values arising from the results obtained in Task 5. Use suitable word/phrase indicators. (E.g. There is a lower probability of female students who like cars.).

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Joe Borg

Sample Questionnaire
I am a student at MCAST. As part of my studies I am conducting a survey about leisure activities. Could you please answer the following questions? Mark your answers with 1. Gender a. Male b. Female 2. Age a. b. c. d. 16 and under 17 to 19 years 20 to 22 years 23 and over

3. What are your favourite leisure activities? (you can choose more than one) a. Practicing sports b. Signing c. Dancing d. Acting e. Going to the cinema f. Reading g. Gaming 4. Do you believe that practising sports improves your health? a. Yes b. No 5. On how many days in a week do you usually get involved in your favourite leisure activities? a. 0 to 3 b. 4 to 7 6. How often do you practice the following sports? Football Basketball Netball Jogging Martial Arts Gymnastics Never Rarely Sometimes Very Often

Thank you for your time

Thursday, 26 April 2012

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Sample Charts

Fruit Prices
20 19 15 10 12 Price

Fruit Banana Apple Orange Kiwi

Price 10 15 12 19

15 10 5 0 Banana

Apple

Orange

Kiwi

Male vs Female
Male Female

Male Female 20 10

33% 67%

Hours of Sunshine per Day

City Hours Fineborough 2 Gammaby 6 Betatown 10 Alphaville 7
Fineborough 2

Gammaby

6 2 hours

Betatown

10

Alphaville

10

12

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Progress Checklist
After Week One Task 1 (English) Task 2 (I.T.) After Week Two Task 3 (Maths) After Week Three Task 4 (Maths/I.T.) Task 5 (Maths) Task 6 (Maths/English) Date Completed Not Completed

Comments

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Feedback Sheet for Mathematics

UNIT NUMBER 3 UNIT TITLE THREE of 3 Integrated Skills Foundation Mathematics ATTEMPT NUMBER First

ASSIGNMENT NUMBER ASSIGNMENT TITLE LEARNERS NAME I.D. CARD NUMBER Has the learner: P2.2 part of Task 6

worked with fractions or percentages to solve mathematical problems originating from real-life situations? ...................................................................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................................................................... P3.1 Task 3 collected, classified and tabulated statistical data? ...................................................................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................................................................... P3.2 part of Task 4 constructed the appropriate type of visual statistical representations from tabulated data? ...................................................................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................................................................... P4.1 Task 5 used data to calculate the probability of a single event? ...................................................................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................................................................... P4.2 part of Task 6 interpreted a probability result and its predictability within the context of a statistical experiment? ...................................................................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................................................................

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By the end of this Assignment (ORIGINAL ATTEMPT) the learner has achieved the following assessment criteria (tick where appropriate): P2.2 Met Not Met Candidates Action Plan: ...................................................................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................................................................... Assessors signature: P3.1 P3.2 P4.1 P4.2

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Learners signature:

Date ___________________

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Date ___________________

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Feedback Sheet for IT

UNIT NUMBER 4 UNIT TITLE THREE of 4 Integrated Skills IT Key Skills ATTEMPT NUMBER First

ASSIGNMENT NUMBER ASSIGNMENT TITLE LEARNERS NAME I.D. CARD NUMBER Task 2 Page size is set to A4

Marks 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 6 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Task 2 60

Awarded

Left and right margins are set to 2.5cm Header shows student name and surname Name and surname are on the right hand side Name and surname are in italic format Header shows the students institute Institute is on the left hand side Institute is in bold formatting Footer contains a date which updates automatically Header and footer text size is 9 point Questionnaire heading (title) is centred, bold and with a font size equal to 18 Student made adequate use of bullets and/or numbering Student made adequate use of symbols Student made adequate use of tables or tabs in order to properly align different elements Document is spell-checked Text is adequately aligned Questionnaire contains a page border A relevant picture is included in the questionnaire Questionnaire is exactly one page long

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Task 4 Charts contain a title Charts contain a legend Charts show the appropriate data label Each chart is on a separate sheet Each worksheet is appropriately named

Marks 8 8 8 8 8 Task 4 40 Total 100

Awarded

RESULT Has student achieved 60% of the marks for nonexempted tasks? SIGNATURES Yes No

Assessor

Date

Internal Verifier

Date