[Year 12 IPM] VITTA Annual Conference 2006 --- Standards
Stephen Digby
digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au
Mon May 1 21:18:45 EST 2006
Well said Robert !!
The only practical approach to this morass is to encourage and assist the development of assessment tasks that will do the fine
measurement for us (such as VCAA Assessment AIM On-demand is doing for Maths/ Eng/ Science).
We need to concentrate on TEACHING the most important concepts (many of the general concepts in VELs are nearly as good as the
original Frameworks so we shouldn't complain too much).
The provision of learning targets as atomised progression points will encourage the exact opposite of curriculum integration (which
seems to be the central (and unstated) target of the changes).
Lead the teaching to teachers with a brief to integrate, engage and deepen.
Leave the quality control accounting to assessment specialists who deliver the tools and provide feedback so that natural imbalances
that are intrinsic to creativity are gently curved towards a balanced curriculum.
Specifically,
- buy/ copy from overseas/ develop a few tests/ tasks etc that give indicators of the key targets.
- STATE to parents etc that inferences from them will be used to inform the assessment until better tools are provided by VCAA or
its like.
- ensure that the tasks are NOT chosen by the teachers of the cohort (so that teaching to the test or the task is avoided)
- give gentle feedback to teachers that encourages gradual achievement of comprehensive coverage of skills/ knowledge/ attitudes
without losing the focus on integration and creativity.
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-----Original Message-----
From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Robert Timmer-Arends
Sent: Monday, 1 May 2006 7:01 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] VITTA Annual Conference 2006 --- Standards
Ros
As Paula has said, we are not comparing a Year 10 class with a Year 7 class; nor are we assessing students in 'Flash' - we are
trying to assess students'
level of learning/competence/achievement in three areas of IT (the 'dimensions'); for example, do they "Individually, and as team
members, students apply a range of techniques, equipment and procedures that minimise the cost, effort and time of processing ICT
solutions and maximise the accuracy, clarity and completeness of the information" [levle 6], OR are they only at the level of
"Students independently apply a range of processing skills, functions and equipment to solve problems and create products which
contain minimal functional, typographical, formatting and readability errors."[level 5] ?
'All' we need to do is decide where each student sits on the scale 1 to 6.75, in steps of 0.25 'The system' will take care of how
far ahead or behind the student is.
Sounds great in theory, but when you consider that the two statements above are just two out of a veritable bucket load (and that's
without the progression points), then what makes me cross is the complete lack of resource the dept has given us to to implement
this. All we have is two websites that don't match (VCAA and SofWeb), that each contain a mountain of information, and (for the
Sofweb site at least) contain conflicting documents!
And we have to make it all work by next year (or if you teach English or Maths - this year!)
Regards
Robert T-A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Meadows, Roslyn M" <Meadows.Roslyn.M at edumail.vic.gov.au>
To: "Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'
Mailing List" <ipm at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 5:11 PM
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] VITTA Annual Conference 2006 --- Standards
> Hi everyone,
> Going back to Damien's example of a Flash Unit - In the past I have
> taught
Flash at each year level from year 7 to 9 and this year I will teach it to year 10, (but these students have had no formal IT
classes in previous
years)
>
> So how is my year 10 class supposed to be compared to a year 7 class,
presuming neither have had any exposure to the software, some may have a whole semester on it, others may have just a couple of
weeks learning Flash - how will the 'STANDARDS' take all these factors into account?
>
> Cheers
>
> Ros Meadows
> <mailto:meadowsro at lauriston.vic.edu.au>
> meadows.roslyn.m at edumail.vic.gov.au
>
> Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions,
including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
> Doug Larson
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Laurie Savage
> Sent: Mon 5/1/2006 4:26 PM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] VITTA Annual Conference 2006 ---
CallforPapers-NOWOPEN
>
>
>
> The problem appears to lie in the correlation of state-wide standards.
> Certainly at the very recent workshop I attended on VELS reporting and
> Assessment, nobody from the department was able to address these
> issues in any detail. We were effectively told to wait.
>
> Laurie
>
> Christophersen, Paula P wrote:
> > Dear Damien and colleagues
> >
> >
> >
> > It is quite possible for a student to achieve an A in a single
> > semester because they are being measured against standards - not
> > against the length of time they study a subject. If this course is
> > constructed within the parameters of the VELS, then they have
> > opportunities to achieve above a C. The progression points
> > (currently only developed for English and Maths) will indicate the
> > typical progress through a level, and it may be possible for your
> > students to demonstrate the standards for a level within a
> > concentrated program, like the one you offer. So, if your students
> > perform above the standards you are able to award them a B or A.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> >
> > Paula Christophersen
> >
> > ICT Curriculum Manager
> >
> > VCAA
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au
> > [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> > *On Behalf Of *Damien A-B
> > *Sent:* Monday, 1 May 2006 2:00 PM
> > *To:* 'Year 12 Information Technology Processing and
> > ManagementTeachers'Mailing List'
> > *Subject:* RE: [Year 12 IPM] VITTA Annual Conference 2006 ---
> > CallforPapers -NOWOPEN
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm still trying to work this grading system out for one subject in
> > particular. We offer Flash as a single semester elective in year 9.
> > It's not offered in later years, so how is it possible to give an A grade?
> > Compare the work my students do to what another school might do in
> > year
> > 11 or to a university course?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Damien Atkinson-Buck
> >
> > IT Department
> >
> > Keilor Downs College
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----
> >
> > *From:* ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au
> > [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> > *On Behalf Of *Zach Alexakos
> > *Sent:* Sunday, 30 April 2006 11:37 AM
> > *To:* Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
> > Teachers'Mailing List
> > *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 IPM] VITTA Annual Conference 2006 ---
> > CallforPapers -NOW OPEN
> >
> > Is the Education Union actually doing anything about this sort of
> > stuff or are we just going to have another strike day to keep Kim Beazley in
> > as Opposition leader? The whole VELs reporting system is a joke- if we
> > don't understand how it works so much for making it simple for
> > parents to understand.
> >
> > I still can't get my head around awarding C grades for students
> > where we once awarded A grades and then awarding A grades for
> > students that should be two year levels ahead of where they're at
> > despite them not having any exposure to the curriculum at that year level. Unbelievable.
> >
> > Time for that Monty Python dvd.....
> >
> > Zach Alexakos
> >
> >
> > At 09:37 AM 30/04/2006, you wrote:
> >
> > Never let it be said that Education got in the way of Politics -
> > just have a look at the way VELS and the new student reports are
> > being implemented!
> >
> > Regards
> > Robert T-A
> > Brighton SC
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > From: Zach Alexakos <mailto:alexakos.zach.z at edumail.vic.gov.au>
> >
> > To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
> > Teachers'Mailing List <mailto:ipm at edulists.com.au>
> >
> > Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 7:49 PM
> >
> > Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] VITTA Annual Conference 2006 --- Call
> > forPapers -NOW OPEN
> >
> > Seven years ago I was able to lobby the support of the Manager of
> > the Commonwealth Bank (and I am talking about THE Manager of the CBA
> > here), to sponsor an educational share trading program for
> > interested schools, (in the thousands of dollars). The Victorian
> > Education Department didn't want to know about it. A few months
> > later we were given a mouthful from a consultant, (paid a six figure
> > sum by the department), telling us that we needed to be integrate
> > education with industry ie:pathways to education. (Work that out!)
> >
> > Just goes to highlight that the Education Department and associated
> > bodies are about Politics rather than Education.
> >
> > Zach Alexakos
> >
> > At 06:39 PM 29/04/2006, you wrote:
> >
> > How apporpriate.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > A conference titled "Imagination, Creativity & Thinking" just as we
> > enter a new study design where Databases and Spreadsheets are mandated.
> >
> >
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> >
> > Mark Scott
> >
> > Luther College
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> > From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Kevork Krozian
> >
> > Sent: Sat 29/04/2006 5:51 PM
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> > To: Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List
> >
> > Subject: [Year 12 IPM] VITTA Annual Conference 2006 --- Call for
> > Papers -NOW OPEN
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Apologies for duplcates of this message.
> >
>
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> > VITTA Annual Conference 2006
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> > November 20-22, Flemington Racecourse
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> > Call for Papers - NOW OPEN
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> > ICT Educators from primary and secondary schools, tertiary
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teaching
> >
> > practices can help develop and release students¹ creativity,
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> > their ability to solve problems, think independently and work
> > flexibly.²
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> > Creativity is moving up the school agenda. As it does so, the
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creative
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> > they need stimuli. These may include curriculum, technologies or
buildings
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