[vet-mm] 2010 Exam

Mon Nov 8 23:49:26 EST 2010

I have often felt this way - sadly to say probably for about half of the MM exams I have ever guided my students through over the years. The good exams have been the ones where students left exams feeling like they had been well prepared. As teachers, that is all we want is it not? Unfortunately (but traditionally it seems) over the years VCAA have offered about as much support as the garden gnome at my front door. I'll said it before and I will say it again - my only sanity over the years has come from my fellow MM/IDM teachers, this mailing list and our pixel ed association!
Jeanean

Jeanean Pritchard
Media, Music & Arts
Highview Christian Community College
Maryborough Victoria
jpritchard at highview.vic.edu.au 

>>> Geraldine McKenna <g.mckenna at optusnet.com.au> 8/11/2010 10:56 pm >>>
My thoughts too Claire. It’s hard when  I feel I have worked very hard this year getting this course up and running. When students come out of the exam saying there were things they didn’t know in front of the principal it does my reputation and self-esteem no good whatsoever. This is the first year I have taught the 3/4  Multimedia / IDM and it has been a hard slog. More guidance and resources would be helpful.
Geraldine McKenna
Avila College
Mt Waverley

On 8/11/10 10:04 PM, "Claire Thorpe" <Thorpe.Claire at bssc.edu.au ( about:Thorpe.Claire at bssc.edu.au )> wrote:

Don’t worry Stuart, we might all be able to line up at Centrelink together once the exam results come back!(haha) 
I’ve been feeling as though I’ve let my students down and disappointed that they might think I didn’t prepare them well enough. 
Relieved to know it’s not just me : |

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From: vet-mm-bounces at edulists.com.au ( about:vet-mm-bounces at edulists.com.au ) [mailto:vet-mm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Stuart James Bush
Sent: Monday, 8 November 2010 7:23 PM
To: VET Multimedia Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [vet-mm] 2010 Exam

Mixed feelings... a friend of mine delvers both Units 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 at the same time to two separate groups of students. Those students I predict, would do a bit better than my group of Unit 3 & 4. That's life i guess. Might just have to rewrite the SAC and curriculum for next year :(   But then again, may not be teaching it next year :)

Anyone got a job for me ?

Stuart.

On 08/11/2010, at 6:45 PM, Claire Thorpe wrote:

I have found the same comments from my students. I have had a look at the exam and I even had a lot of trouble answering many of the questions. I also found some of the multiple choice answers debatable or open to interpretation? In particular I found Q.4, 6 and 10 to be interesting.
I realise I am quite brain dead by this time of the year but did anyone else find the questions a little too specific given the scope of the content we need to cover?
I have already completed the feedback survey.

Cheers,
Claire

Claire Thorpe | VET Interactive Digital Media

Bendigo Senior Secondary College

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From: vet-mm-bounces at edulists.com.au ( about:vet-mm-bounces at edulists.com.au ) [mailto:vet-mm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Jeanean Pritchard
Sent: Monday, 8 November 2010 4:00 PM
To: 'VET Multimedia Teachers' Mailing List'
Subject: [vet-mm] 2010 Exam

I haven't had a chance to look at the exam as yet, but the feedback from my students is mixed. Although my students found the practical tasks to be fairly pleasant and familiar, they did find the theory questions a bit unexpected. I do know we can only predict the type of questions based on info given out by VCAA - and being a new course we really didn't have anything previous to go by. Students told me the type of theory questions varied greatly to the Pixel Ed practice exam I gave them a couple of weeks ago, so I am wondering if any of your students also had similar feedback. 

Jeanean

Jeanean Pritchard
Media, Music & Arts
Highview Christian Community College
Maryborough Victoria
jpritchard at highview.vic.edu.au ( about:jpritchard at highview.vic.edu.au )

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