<div dir="ltr">Yes. I tried a 'disabilities' answer and could not make it fly.<div><br></div><div>Hopefully the stronger students managed to cope with the weird use of VCE IT conventions.</div><div>I worry mainly about the others who expect examiners to behave nicely and obey the conventions that the students were told were sacred.<br></div><div>It's really not fair to earnestly teach kids basic principles all year, and have an exam overturn them - as if the question writer did not actually teach ITA, and only read the study design.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On the same tack, I'm still not happy with A1, which I believe misunderstood the VCE IT interpretation of 'storyboard', which the study design clearly intends (e.g. p.65, "using a range of design tools including a sitemap, layouts and storyboard, redesign your school’s website") to be a website design tool, not an animation design tool.</div><div> The only reason I'm not livid about that was because the other options were all worse than the 'correct' one.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It worries me how questions like this get through to publication...<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 November 2014 13:36, Ben Hines <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:b.hines@ccg.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">b.hines@ccg.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I was thinking this too mark. It sounds like many of my students used common sense and didn't answer it with a special needs interpretation. Because to them it didn't seem to fit here. </div>
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<div>My thought was around the fact that maybe persons with disabilities may more easily communicate using video or audio ( by recording it and uploading it). Than by just typing. </div>
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<div>But the question really doesn't seem to be leaning this way? </div>
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From: Mark <br>
Date:09/11/2014 13:22 (GMT+10:00) <br>
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List <br>
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] ITA exam - B2 - accessibility <br>
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<div>Does anyone else have a sneaking fear that this second question in section B is misinterpreting the word "accessibility"?</div>
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<div>We in VCE IT have (AFAIK) always understood 'accessibility' as referring to catering for special needs or disabilities.</div>
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<div>This question smells to me as if it's referring to "ease of loading/finding". Try answering it with a "special needs" view of accessibility, and see how far you get.<br>
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<div>Frustratingly, the current study design does not define accessibility, and it even muddies the water by including this in the glossary's definition of 'design elements'...</div>
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<div><b>"In this study the elements related to functionality are structure, usability and accessibility, including navigation and load time, appropriateness and relevance."</b></div>
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<div>This makes it sound like accessibility includes navigation and load time (curse their ambiguous punctuation) which is definitely not related to disabilities. </div>
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<div>Yet the Nelson/Potts textbooks seems to agree that 'accessibility' relates to factors like colour blindness, reduced language skills etc.</div>
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<div>The problem is that I can't find a VCE IT source for this 'accessibility' convention.
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<div>Or have I slipped several cogs and is question B2 quite appropriate and right? Has the exam question writer read the study design and made a quite valid (but wrong) interpretation of the word?</div>
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