FW: [Year 12 Its] New IS study design query
Hafoka Ross
hafr at jpc.vic.edu.au
Thu Nov 16 11:25:55 EST 2006
So when is this CD available?
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From: is-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Mark Kelly
Sent: Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:10 AM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: FW: [Year 12 Its] New IS study design query
It's an official VCAA enterprise :-)
Frank Van Den Boom wrote:
> ...is this a VITTA resource? If so, isn't it just a group's educated
> guess on what to cover, not much different to the available texts.
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: is-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
> Sent: Thursday, 16 November 2006 10:41 AM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: FW: [Year 12 Its] New IS study design query
>
> The forthcoming implementation CD will give you exactly what you're
> looking for :-)
>
> Frank Van Den Boom wrote:
>> I was a bit surprised to only get one response to the question below
>> a
>
>> couple of weeks ago. Does that mean that nobody else finds this
>> difficult to judge?
>> Imagine you were an experienced IT practioner and you came in to
>> teach
>
>> this course with no prior knowledge of it and you were trying to
>> figure out what depth was required in programming. So you look at the
> following :
>> 1. Study design - very hard to know (see comments in original
>> message)
>
>> 2. 2006 IS exam - nothing beyond nested IF's - nothing involving
>> arrays, records, files. One question with a loop was only concerned
>> with identifying variable types, but not control or data structures.
>> 3. Previous exams - basic use of 1-dim array, basic looping 3. VITTA
>> practice exams - suggest you need to have a solid understanding of
>> arrays, records, file processing and parameter passing.
>> 4. Text books - cover algorithms for stacks, queues, linked lists etc
>>
>> At the end of the day, past exams to me are the only general
>> indicator
>
>> of the depth to cover. Is there a reason why the study design can't
>> spell this out more clearly?
>>
>> Frank
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>> *From:* is-bounces at edulists.com.au
>> [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au]
>> *On Behalf Of *Frank Van Den Boom
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:41 PM
>> *To:* is at edulists.com.au
>> *Subject:* [Year 12 Its] New IS study design query
>>
>> Today I started looking more closely at the revised study design to
>> plan for next year. One of the things that struck me is that it is
>> difficult to know what the minimum content requirements are in a
> number of areas.
>> For example-data structures. I don't think it specifically mentions
>> any particular data structure. U4O1 key knowledge includes "methods
>> of
>
>> organising files....serial, sequential, random" which implies the
>> need
>
>> to cover records. Arrays are not specifically referred to and while,
>> it would be pretty dumb to omit them, are 1-dim arrays enough, or
>> might exams expect ability to work with multi-dim arrays? What about
>> sets, pointers....
>>
>> Another KK point --> 'Forms and uses of data structures to organise
>> and manipulate data'. Which data structures?? What types of uses?? -
>> all the oldies like sorting, linked lists, queues, binary searches
>> etc
>
>> are possible here.
>>
>> Now I know we have the flexibility to cover as much of this as we
>> want
>
>> to for the kids who are really into it, particularly for those who
>> already have a reasonable programming foundation as they enter the
>> course. But what I don't know is what the minimum requirement is.
>> This
>
>> becomes more important when most of your group have little to no
>> programming experience.
>>
>> What do you think about this?
>> Frank
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