BTEC International Level 3 Information Technology

Unit 10: Big Data and Business Analytics — assessment criteria

Learners explore how businesses and organisations use data and models to make decisions, develop strategy and improve performance.

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Assessment criteria

Reproduced verbatim from the Pearson specification — the same grid the assignment brief carries. A unit grade is the highest band where all criteria in that band (and every band below it) are met.

Pass

6 criteria
A.P1Explain how an organisation can use analytics to improve performance, benchmark and/or innovate.
B.P2Solve problems for a data set involving routine central tendency, dispersion and probability distribution operations, using software.
B.P3Solve problems for a data set involving routine linear regression operations, using software.
C.P4Prepare an appropriate raw data set to meet the needs of an organisation.
C.P5Analyse, using software, the data set by applying routine statistical, probability and mathematical operations.
C.P6Present straightforward conclusions and recommendations from the analysis of a data set to meet the needs of an organisation.

Merit

6 criteria
A.M1Compare how an organisation can use analytics to improve performance, benchmark and/or innovate. and techniques used to analyse data in organisations
B.M2Solve problems accurately for a data set involving routine and non-routine central tendency, dispersion and probability distribution operations, using software.
B.M3Solve problems accurately for a data set involving routine and non-routine regression operations, using software.
C.M4Prepare effectively an appropriate raw data set to meet the needs of an organisation.
C.M5Analyse accurately, using software, the data set by applying routine and non- routine statistical, probability and mathematical operations.
C.M6Present concise and valid conclusions and recommendations from the accurate analysis of the data set that are fit for different audiences and purpose to meet the needs of an organisation.

Distinction

3 criteria
A.D1Evaluate how an organisation can use analytics to improve performance, benchmark and/or innovate.
B.D2Evaluate the correct synthesis and accurate application of routine and non-routine statistical, and probability operations using calculations and appropriate software to solve problems.
C.D3Present concise, valid and relevant conclusions and recommendations from an accurate evaluation of the effectively cleansed and formatted data set that are fit for different audiences and purpose to meet the needs of an organisation.

Command verbs in this unit

The verb decides the depth expected — that is what separates Pass from Merit and Distinction work on the same learning aim.

EvaluateExplainCompareSolvePresentPrepareAnalyse
Pearson's ladder runs Identify → Describe → Explain → Compare / Analyse → Evaluate / Justify / Assess. A Merit or Distinction criterion on the same aim always implies the Pass beneath it: an “evaluate” answer that never first “explains” fails, however polished it reads. Hover a verb for what it demands.

Learning aims

  • A. Investigate the role of big data and business analytics to improve performance, for
  • B. Explore the statistical software tools and techniques used to analyse data in organisations
  • C. Carry out analysis of statistical data to meet the needs of an organisation

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