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Educ 1 Education and

Society
Week 9 Seminar
Today’s Objectives
Revisit SEEN question for Exam
Self study task on skeleton plan
Look at using statistics to support your
writing(assignment and exam)
Using Extended Criteria to grade and assess previous
assignments
Which individuals and institutions have the
power to influence Scottish educational
policy? Do they all have equal power and
influence?

Share your Skeleton Plan to address this question

Discuss how you will further prepare for completing this question in the exam?
Think about what literature/core reading/journals your peers have identified
legislation/policy documents, discuss with your peers and share good ideas
Think about and consider your key critical arguments
Remember to approach this answer YOUR way. There isn’t one correct answer
Remember to Plan for 5 minutes and be writing for 40 mins in the examination
Self Study Task (15 mins)
Discuss with your partner your chosen Essay Question
and what you think this is asking
How might you frame your response and what
resources will you use (stats/data, journals, books,
policy, legislation?)
Any Questions for the class or tutor regarding
assessments?
Essay Questions for EAS1
2020 Essay Questions
due 6th May at 12 noon - 1500 words
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1. ‘Gender is relevant to the identities, experiences and choices of pupils’ Rachel Brooks
How does gender or ethnicity impact pupil experience in our Scottish school system?
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2. “Education in Scottish schools has been shaped by many factors.”
Discuss with reference to no more than three factors from the list below:
Social, political, economic, technological, religious, cultural.
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3. Does society shape education, or does education shape society? Evaluate both points of view.
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4. Provide a critical account of some ways in which national educational systems can be
influenced by international factors?
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How to use statistics in your essay?
Interpretation of data and inequality in education

Statistics can help you form an opinion

and draw conclusions on a specific
topic. They can also strengthen the
argument in your essay and support you
in bringing across your point.
Using statistics?
Based on what you have discussed in the lectures and seminars, and read in the
course materials and beyond, you may have developed a set of initial arguments
(and assumptions or hypotheses) on a certain topic. Make a list of bullet points
for these arguments and think of the kind of data and figures that could provide
evidence for them. Then scan literature to find similar data and stats.

To show that you can reflect on an argument from different perspectives you could
think of evidence that is in favour but also evidence that is opposing the
argument.

The stats do not have to reflect exactly what you want to say. You just have to make
sure that you explicitly link their content and message to the point that you want
to make in your essay.

You can approach stats and your argumentation the other way around. Scroll and
read through reports on your topic of interest and look at the tables and figures –
what do they tell you? How are they interpreted in the text? And, most
importantly, does their message provide you with information that could be the
basis for an argument?
Remember!
When presenting findings from the statistic in your essay,
make sure that you mention the following information:
Name/topic of the study/participants
If available , the sample size, i.e. how many participants
took part
The time period at which the data was collected
Extended Criteria (approx 10-12 mins per
Essay)
Class to split into groups
Read through and grade essays given out by your tutor
according to the Extended Criteria
All phones must be put away and no photographing or
recording of any material from assignment or feedback
sheets are allowed!
All assignment and feedback sheets to be returned to
tutor
Anything about the assignments that surprised you?
Anything about the grade/feedback that surprised
you?
Did you accurately assess the assignments?
Were you able to identify the strengths/weaknesses in
the assignments?
Final Seminar
Thank you for being a great seminar group!!
We hope you have enjoyed the course