General transferable skills: numeracy

(Transcript of a section of the General transferable skills report, 1998)

Competence Statement	A student is able to: make use of numerical and statistical information as part of an argument or in a report
Basic Level	Able to: identify and collate relevant statistical information comment on the relevance of numerical information provided to them
Advanced Level	Able to: evaluate using an analysis of numerical and statistical information generate relevant numerical or statistical information
Illustrations of activities	At basic level: essays and tutorials: students using and identifying statistical evidence to support their arguments At advanced level: carry out empirical research collecting data and analysing data – could be small research exercises based around the university, for example, a group exercise looking at the victims of crime on campus presenting statistics or financial information with accuracy and appropriate commentary law clinics – able to obtaining financial information from a client and analyse it correctly negotiation exercises – for example, surrounding a contract dissertation – budgeting the cost of the research and completion of a final year project
Illustrations of evidence	use of statistical evidence as part of an essay commenting on the law ability to use numerical information to support analysis, for example in assessing damages or considering distribution of funds or shares in trusts presenting numerical information in a cogent form analysis of relevant numerical information gathering statistical information from published sources awareness of different ways of using numerical information

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