[Year 12 IPM] Your suggestions please

[Mark Kelly]

Thanks for asking, Paula.

The 'Advice for Teachers' section of the Design is useful, but some 
extra info would be handy...

I'd like additional sample detailed outcome tasks, with sample 
assessment schemes for the additional and existing tasks.  e.g. when 
assessing the student's success using a "range of functions", what dB 
functions would be high value, and which would be trivial?

It would be valuable to have an idea of what level of difficulty would 
be required to earn different marks, but I hope the assessment guide 
will cover that.

Just to be annoyingly pedantic, I note that for ITA U3O1 the design says 
that "students need to utilise a relational database [management 
software]" but it does not exactly say that students need to CREATE a 
relational dB ... they could use a relational DBMS such as Filemaker but 
only create a flatfile database with a single table  :-)

Related to that, the Design uses the term "database" in different places 
to refer to both the software (like FMP and Access) and the product of 
the software (e.g. a music database).  Maybe we need to get in the habit 
demonstrated by the 'Advice for Teachers' p.66 which refers to "DataBase 
Management Software" (DBMS) when talking about the application, and 
"database" when referring to the product of the DBMS?

Isn't it curious that the term "database" does not appear in the 
glossary in the study design?

Oh, and in passing, page 66 of the study design (second last para) 
refers to "strategies and devices for storaging ... data".  Storaging? 
What a lovely new word!

Cheers

Mark

Christophersen, Paula P wrote:
> Dear colleagues
> 
> VCAA is preparing its project to assist teachers implement the 
> reaccredited study design 2007-2010. What specific information would you 
> like to help implement this study? In addition to an electronic version 
> of the study design and the Assessment Handbook, what further 
> information would you like to receive?
> Regards
> 
> Paula Christophersen
> ICT Curriculum Manager
> VCAA
> 41 St Andrews Place
> EAST MELBOURNE 3002
> (03) 9651 4378


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Mark Kelly
McKinnon Secondary College
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