AC9TDI8P01

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acquire, store and validate data from a range of sources using software, including spreadsheets and databases

Elaborations

• AC9TDI8P01_E1 - acquiring data to answer questions for their own investigations, for example answering "Does the canteen sell the right food?" by designing a survey to collect food preferences data and accessing canteen sales data
• AC9TDI8P01_E2 - judging how meaningful data is to a question, its correctness and how up to date the data is, for example "Does age affect the chance of cyclist injury?", "Are self-reported accidents reliable?" and "Is the data before cycleways existed relevant?"
• AC9TDI8P01_E3 - storing acquired data using specialised and general software appropriate for how it will be accessed and manipulated, for example a spreadsheet for visualisation or a pre-defined database for filtering and queries
• AC9TDI8P01_E4 - acquiring, storing and validating data from a reputable source, such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics, to analyse the geographic distribution of First Nations Australians, with the aim to highlight past and emerging trends

Achievement Standard Components

• ASTEC7803 - They acquire, interpret and model with spreadsheets and represent data with integers and binary.
• ASTECTDI7802 - Students acquire, interpret and model data with spreadsheets and represent data with integers and binary.