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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Andrew,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Personally I do the opposite, I find Semester 1 very heavy on
with theory. We do 3-4 sessions out of 9 (a fortnight) in programming, sometime
less, the rest is theory as Outcome 1 requires so much knowledge. Outcome 2 on
the other hand students can handle quite well as they all did design, testing,
validation etc in previous years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I do revision tests quite regularly and do an end of semester
test to cover the material for Unit 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I must admit I do push the line that the exam is 50% of the
course so we will be doing 50% of our work on it throughout the year. My
students have already had a go at last years exams, and from the beginning of
June will do an exam paper a week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Just my approach not necessarily better.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Claudia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au
[mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>andrew barry<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 10 April 2008 8:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] My U3O1 SAC - 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<br>
<br>
How are people mixing theory with computer work?<br>
I am teaching VB.net and alss covering quickly the theory in the SD book.<br>
<br>
I will concentrate on their VB.net learning for SACs and term3 will concentrate
on exam style questions from checkpoints book. I think this is where you need
to work at their theory, when it is an exam style question organized in topics.
<br>
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I just think it is a waste of time covering theory in great depth now but my
class takes notes and does some questions.<br>
<br>
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