Overview
Data Analytics VCE Units 3 & 4 fully reflects the scope and intent of the 2020 VCAA VCE Applied Computing study design and features a problem-solving methodology to create digital solutions in a range of contexts.
You’ll also have access to FREE* NelsonNet resources to engage your students and provide you with valuable teaching tools.
Teacher NelsonNet resources include:
• Student book answers
• Chapter tests with answers
• Trial exam with answers
• Sample assessment tasks with sample solutions.
Students NelsonNet resources include:
• Chapter review quizzes
• Weblinks.
*Complimentary access to NelsonNet is available to teachers who use the accompanying student book as a core resource in their classroom. Contact your education consultant for access codes and conditions.
1 Data and presentation
2 Data manipulation and presentations
3 Data Analytics: Project management and data analysis
4 Data Analytics: Drawing conclusions
5 Development and evaluation
6 Information managements
7 Cyber security measures
Gary has regularly presented at DLTV DigiCON - the annual IT teachers conference. Gary was President of Mag-Net (Magnificent network – Online Association of STEM Educators). Gary has been awarded for his involvement at a State and National level with IT.
Natalie Heath is an experienced computing teacher and is currently teaching at Eltham High School.
Assoc. Prof. Therese Keane is an Educational Technology lecturer at Swinburne University. She holds a Doctorate in Education and her topic focused on ICT leadership in schools. Therese has worked in a variety of school settings; two of the schools in which she worked had Notebook programs. She is a former office holder in VITTA and has been a state councillor for the ICTEV (Information and Communications Technology in Education Victoria). She has presented numerous seminars and workshops for teachers involved in the teaching of Information Technology and educational technologies. Therese was the Assistant State Reviewer of Information Systems. She has also written several textbooks in all units of VCE Information Technology.
Anthony Sullivan is Head of Information Technology at The Peninsula School, Victoria.
All the popular features from the previous edition of these highly respected texts have been retained and updated, including the accompanying teacher website with sample assessment tasks and solutions to all text questions.
Practice exams and auto-correcting practice multiple choice questions provide valuable practice and revision for the end of year exam.
With the addition of Software Development VCE Units 3 & 4, students can now experience a seamless and consistent approach to all six units of the study design.