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<div>Yes I cover the theory initially but i dont spend all lesson on it. The exam is 50% so like you the best way to do an exam is to do exam questions come Term3.</div>
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<div>Outcome 1 i have found doesn't require nearly as much work as outcome 2? Most my class doesn't know VB.net but the network design doesn't take long to teach as many questions on it are comprehension. Also the sac after that is practical.<br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/11/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Claudia Graham</b> <<a href="mailto:claudia.graham@overnewton.vic.edu.au">claudia.graham@overnewton.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Hi Andrew,</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">I do revision tests quite regularly and do an end of semester test to cover the material for Unit 3.</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; 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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d">Just my approach not necessarily better.</span></p>
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<div><span class="e" id="q_1193a68b1b9914a7_1">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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