[Year 12 SofDev] My U3O1 SACs and assessment guide - UPDATE!

Mon Mar 19 12:56:07 EST 2007

Hi Mark,

You are very welcome to tweak - so tweak away!

In terms of the time, I plan to try to finish it before the end of term.
Our periods are 44 minutes in length - 5-6 of them will probably be enough
to get there.  The only things are: creating the DFD can be a bit fiddly and
might take 2 lessons by itself.  The network diagram is fairly simple,
however 2 lessons will probably be needed for that as well.

I do let my students refer to their notes (they don't help them that much!).
I also get them to complete all sections electronically - all diagrams being
created in Visio.

>From a personal perspective, I like to keep this task fairly simple, as I
tend to put some challenges into the programming ones...

Hope this helps!
Cheers,
Adrian

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-----Original Message-----
From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
Sent: Monday, 19 March 2007 12:49 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] My U3O1 SACs and assessment guide - UPDATE!

Lovely task, Adrian.

Being an inveterate fiddler, I tweaked it a little to add a specific 
security risk (AJ's competitive brother), and a little more detail to 
the network diagram.  Tweaked version attached. Hope you don't mind.

A few houskeeping queries...

- How long would you give kids for this?  It looks like a 90 minute 
double-period job to me.
  - Are you mandating that software be used to produce the network diagram?
- For that matter, will you have computers turned on at all?
- Would you be letting kids refer to notes?

Cheers and thanks again

Mark

Adrian Janson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>  
> 
> I have updated my files that I previously posted on the VITTA web site

> here are the links:
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> http://www.vitta.org.au/resources/detail.php?doc_id=3160
> 
> http://www.vitta.org.au/resources/detail.php?doc_id=3161
> 
>  
> 
> Please download the files from the VITTA web site and disregard the ones 
> I previously posted. 
> 
>  
> 
> As has been correctly pointed out to me, U3O1 needs to be styled as a 
> report – not as a set of tasks or questions.  Although this was always 
> my understanding - I do ask my students to deliver a report (and not 
> just answers to questions), the wording in my U3O1 document could have 
> been interpreted as being a set a questions rather than a report.  One 
> of the reasons I break up the report in this way is so that I can ask 
> students to address particular things during particular classes.  I need 
> to clarify this with you, so that you all know what is expected in this 
> outcome.
> 
>  
> 
> The second thing that I have changed is in relation to the weighting of 
> the tasks.  The VASS system will ask you to enter a mark out of 40 (for 
> the report) + a mark out of 10 (for the network diagram).  If you have a 
> different weighting in the criteria sheet (as I did – opps!), things 
> will become a little confusing when it comes time to enter your marks 
> into the VASS system.
> 
>  
> 
> Hope this clarifies things! 
> 
>  
> 
> So to ensure that I haven’t let you all astray, please delete the files 
> that I posted previously and access the new ones via the links above!
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Adrian
> 
>  
> 
> Adrian Janson
> 
> VITTA President
> 
> Director of ICT, Melbourne High School
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