<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 March 2015 at 16:10, Heike Demarteau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:heike_23@hotmail.com" target="_blank">heike_23@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">I doubt <b>every</b> student would get 100% whichever method you use.<br><br><div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi, Heike</div><div><br></div><div>Yes. It would (probably) be impossible for everyone in a class to get an end-of-year VCAA score of 100%.</div><div><br></div><div>It <i>would, </i>however be possible (but certainly undesirable) for every student in a class to get 100% on an outcome if the task were so simple and basic that <i>everyone</i> could get full marks and you could not tell the best student from the worst. </div><div><br></div><div>Imagine a final-year medicine exam that only required the best and weakest students to successfully apply a Band-aid to get 100%.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure that if all members of a class <i>did</i> ever get full marks on an outcome, VCAA would be very <b>very</b> keen to audit that teacher's task and assessment criteria - unless perhaps the class had only a few students.</div><div><br></div><div>In any case, as I understand it, if horrible indiscriminate outcomes were used, VCAA's statistical workings would rapidly discount the value of the outcomes' marks and use the November exam to sort the kids out into a realistic order. When in doubt, the exam mark always wins.</div><div><br></div><div>My 2.18 cents worth (adjusted to current exchange rates and wind speed)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>> From: <a href="mailto:asullivan@tps.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">asullivan@tps.vic.edu.au</a><br>> To: <a href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps@edulists.com.au</a><br>> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:44:00 +0000<br>> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] SACS and BYOD<br>> <br>> My two cents worth<br>> <br>> Having SAC's that run over multi periods is pretty unique to VCE IT<br>> <br>> The way you run and manage your VCE IT SAC's is really up to you<br>> <br>> Every school probably has a different approach<br>> <br>> Some schools allow notes, textbooks, network and internet access. Others run their SAC's a lot more like a test or an exam with no notes or assistance<br>> <br>> Remember the purpose of an assessment task is discriminate between your top student down to your bottom (for lack of a better word) student . In other words, rank your students in order of their understanding of the content for each outcome<br>> <br>> If you give a task that allows this discrimination or ranking to occur (with notes and network and internet access) then that is no problem<br>> <br>> But if you allow notes, etc. and every students gets 100% then it defeats the purpose of assessment task. You are not really identifying the order of ability in your class<br>> <br>> My approach and BYOD devices<br>> <br>> Students here use their own personal laptop for SAC's.<br>> <br>> I have network access turned off for these periods and collect the files from each student on USB at the end of the lesson<br>> <br>> I'm happy for them during a SAC (and I cannot really stop them) from accessing the files on their laptop of the practice tasks we completed leading up to the SAC<br>> <br>> I tell students this before the SAC to encourage them to complete all the practice tasks<br>> <br>> But as mentioned earlier this is my method that works for me and each school needs a method that works for them<br>> <br>> Anthony<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Anthony Sullivan<br>> Head of Information Technology | Commerce Faculty<br>> 20 Wooralla Drive, Mt. Eliza, Vic, 3930<br>> T: 03 9788 7796| F: 03 9787 7646 |<a href="mailto:asullivan@tps.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">asullivan@tps.vic.edu.au</a> | <a href="http://www.tps.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">www.tps.vic.edu.au</a><br>> <br>> <br>> </div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px"><i>Instructions on an American Airlines packet of nuts: 'Open packet, eat nuts.'</i></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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