Objective:
This assessment task requires you to collect, analyse and interpret data with appropriate discussion and interpretation.
A brief description of the task:
Whilst completing this assessment task, you will identify appropriate methods of data collection relevant to your
topic. You will subsequently perform the data collection and apply both qualitative and quantitative statistical
analyses to draw insightful conclusions from the data. As part of this work, you are required to also identify
potential sources of error in the collected data, e.g. instrumentation errors. You will also need to discuss the
quality and quantity of the data that you have obtained as it relates to the topic under investigation. You will
also demonstrate the use and interpretation of one- and two-dimensional statistical analysis techniques through
the analysis of the collected research related datasets. Part of your work will need to include a statistical
validation check and you will need to comment on the reliability and limitations using established engineering
techniques. Finally, you are to also consider how to add to or improve the quality of the data to sourced – i.e.
identify the sort or type of data that you will would collect and how you would go about obtaining it.
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. Assessment Item 3 is worth 20% of the total assessment for this unit.