Hi all. <br><br>The recently-released report on 2011 ITA outcome audits has revealed a subtle and previously-unannounced task requirement.<br><br><b>The data given to students should not be normalised or presented in a form that gives big clues as to what tables are required.<br>
</b><br>This is not explicitly specified anywhere, and it's not included in the list of key skills, but the key knowledge dotpoints about students having to know normalisation implicitly suggest it.<br><br><editorial><br>
<br>The next editions of the study design's advice to teachers and the assessment handbook should make this task requirement clear and explicit. <br><br>There's quite enough to be mindful of when writing outcomes without having to interpret the implied subtleties of <b>every</b> key knowledge dotpoint. <br>
If VCAA have explicit demands of tasks, these demands should be made explicit.<br><br></editorial><br><br>-- <br>Mark Kelly<br>Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area<br>McKinnon Secondary College<br>McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia<br>
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