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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Pearson Education Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Pearson Education Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Pearson Education Ltd.
This Level 3 BTEC Technical Occupational Entry Certificate is for aspiring data technicians. It covers the role of data and legislation, data science principles, and communicating using data in a business context.
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Pearson Education Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. Pearson Education Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Applying Data Science Principles Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the use of data in a given context.
- Produce an initial plan for a given business problem.
- Source data for a given problem.
- Collect data for a given problem.
- Produce a useable data set for a given problem.
- Produce a model for a given problem.
- Monitor a data model.
- Maintain a data model.
Communicating Using Data Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the value of data in a business context.
- Collate data in a given context.
- Format data in a given context.
- Interrogate data in a given context.
- Communicate data in a given context.
Role of Data and Legislation Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Utilise data handling tools to summarise trends and patterns in data.
- Apply statistical methods to summarise trends and patterns in data.
- Apply algorithms to summarise trends and patterns in data.
- Investigate commonly occurring data quality issues.
- Design methods to overcome data quality issues.
- Understand data governance requirements surrounding the use of data.
- Understand legal requirements surrounding the use of data.
- Understand regulatory requirements surrounding the use of data.
- Understand ethical issues relating to the use of data.
- Understand the roles of people within a multi-functional team.
- Understand how collaboration tools can be used to allow teams to work effectively together.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Apply data ethics to data activities
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
- 1 record
Where this can lead
Director of Technical
This role can lead to leading technology across an entire organisation, or to senior data leadership at board level.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Pearson Education Ltd rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Applying Data Science PrinciplesCommunicating Using DataRole of Data and Legislation
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
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You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Analyst · your map-it-properly tutor Illustration - Map a live decision Analyse
“Applying Data Science Principles” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Applying Data Science Principles, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will investigate the use of data within a specific context and produce an initial plan for a business problem. They will source, collect, and prepare data, develop a data model, and monitor its effectiveness to support decision-making.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Pearson BTEC Level 3 Technical Occupational Entry for Data Technicians (Certificate)
3 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Applying Data Science Principles
- Communicating Using Data
- Role of Data and Legislation
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