[Year 12 IPM] FW: some help needed re IT enrolments

[Roland Gesthuizen]

With only a couple of year 11 and 12's doing IPM, next year I will be 
running an odd year 12/11 and another 11/10 class. Seems like a lot of 
us are going to be running VCE composite classes in 2006 and I would 
welcome any teaching strategies.

Hmm, this could be a good topic for a VITTA workshop if there is 
sufficient interest and somebody familiar with this arrangement holds up 
their hand. ;-)

Regards Roland

Jim Bunn wrote:

> The same trend is here at Hampton Park Secondary College. We do have a 
> stand alone Information Systems class, but not enough for an IPM 
> class. This is the first time ever for us. It was going to be scrapped 
> but I convinced the AP to do a combined 11-12 class. We have enough 
> year 11s to also do a stand alone year 11 IT as well.
>
>  
>
> Jim Bunn
> CCNA CCAI
> Technology Coordinator
> Hampton Park Secondary College
> Victoria  Australia
>
> bunn.jim.c at edumail.vic.gov.au <mailto:bunn.jim.c at edumail.vic.gov.au>
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> [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Fusinato, Margaret M
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 30 November 2005 9:41 AM
> *To:* ipm at edulists.com.au
> *Subject:* [Year 12 IPM] FW: some help needed re IT enrolments
>
>  
>
> I have been approached to post the information below on the IPM list 
> for open discussion / comments. Any comments posted in open forum I am 
> happy to forward to Catherine.
>
>  
>
> At Trafalgar the numbers of students choosing IT are definitely lower 
> than in the past, as I have previously stated in list discussions. 
> Next year for the first time I will be running a combined class as the 
> number choosing Units 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 were not sufficient for a stand 
> alone in each area. Doing the math, the take up for IPM here is less 
> then 1% and Systems roughly 2% next year. That figure breaks down to 
> about equal male and female in IPM and in Systems all but one student 
> is male.
>
>  
>
> Margaret Fusinato
>
> Trafalgar High School
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> Hi Margaret,
>
>  
>
> I thought I would enlist some help from you. The first area is VCE IPM 
> and IS enrolment statistics/proportions. I want to indicate the 
> proportion of students who study these subjects. I have searched the 
> VCAA website and found the 2004 stats, which are fine, and am looking 
> just at unit 4 enrolments.
>
>  
>
> According to this site 
> (http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2004/statssect1.print.html) 
> in Table 1.2 Unit results by gender and level 2004, there were 126,119 
> males who completed unit 4 VCE subjects, and 144,124 females.
>
>  
>
> Then on the same site, in the individual subject unit completion 
> outcomes, we have 2222 males who completed the IS subject, and only 
> 176 females, and in IPM 4933 males and 2384 females.
>
>  
>
> Using my calculator that means that only 1.8% of males in the state 
> completed IS, and 0.1% of the females.
>
> IPM is slightly better, with 4% of all VCE males and 1.7% of females.
>
>  
>
> Does that seem correct? Do you (or the VCE coordinator) get any report 
> on where each subject sits on proportional enrolments?
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>  
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> It is very low.
>
>  
>
> Feel free to post my query on your teacher discussion board. I would 
> benefit from some 'on the ground' input.
>
>  
>
> Catherine Lang
>
> Lecturer, Faculty of ICT
>
> Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia
>
> phone: +613 9214 5884
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> http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/ictstaff/clang
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