[Year 12 IT Apps] REVIEW OF VCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, SUMMARYOF PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE STUDY DESIGN

[Mark Kelly]

Dear Collie dogs

Perhaps VCAA might like to institute a voluntary survey system so when 
optional tools or assessment modes are offered in the study design, 
teachers can indicate which option they use.

Might be useful data for the next study design...

Woof

Mark

Christophersen, Paula P wrote:
> Dear colleagues
> 
> When there was an option at the school level as to whether students studied spreadsheets or database, schools were not required to indicate their choice, hence officially VCAA does not know. It's the same with the update of approved programming languages in Software development.
> 
> Regards
> Paula
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> It was about 50/50 in the previous course from research we did.
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> Sent: Thursday, 20 August 2009 3:54 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] REVIEW OF VCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,
> SUMMARYOF PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE STUDY DESIGN
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> That's what the previous course did, and I have a feeling 99% of the
> state chose spreadsheets every time.  At least I did.
> 
> I wonder if Paula has figures on the numbers of schools who chose
> databases over spreadsheets when they had the choice.  I think that
> would be a democratic demonstration of people's preferences.
> 
> While I'd prefer this strategy too, I can cope with one database task,
> but two is really pushing it.
> 
> Mark Scott wrote:
>> Paula
>>
>> Here's one simple change that might satisfy some.
>>
>> Change U4O1 to read...
>>
>> Outcome 1
>> On completion of this unit the student should be able to use a
>> relational database management system *or a spreadsheet *to solve an
>> ongoing information problem, and evaluate how well the solution meets
>> the information needs of an organisation.
>>
>> Students would still get some database experience (U3O2). Teachers
> could
>> offer U4O1 as a database or a spreadsheet task or even offer both and
>> give students a choice.
>>
>>
>> Mark Scott
>> Luther College
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