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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Travis,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>You have described half of my
cohort!!! Actually – they tend not to be quite as extreme as this
for me – but I do have 1 or 2 like this every year. Unfortunately,
in my experience, they do very badly. (and by badly – I mean “not
as good as they should”) and I think that doing a written exam for these
types of students is their Achilles heel. Often I find that their handwriting
is very hard to understand too (for a double whammy!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Adrian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#002060'>Adrian Janson </span></b><b><span style='font-size:7.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#002060'>B.Sc, Dip.Ed, M.Ed<br>
</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#002060'>Director of ICT<br>
</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#244061'>Melbourne High School, Forrest Hill, South Yarra, Victoria 3141
Australia.<br>
Phone: 03 9826 0711 International: +61 3 9826 0711<br>
Fax: 03 9826 8767 International: +61 3 9826 8767<br>
E-mail: <a href="janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au">janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#244061'>Website: <a href="http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au/">http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au</a></span><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#244061'>Blog: <a href="http://jansona.edublogs.org/" target="_blank">http://jansona.edublogs.org</a></span><span
style='color:black'><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>Travis Parker<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 4 November 2011 9:38 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 SofDev] Student ranking query<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>In my short teaching career I have taught year 12 Business
Management, IT Apps, Cert III Multimedia and this is my first year of teaching
Software Development. I have a student that is really concerning me about his
performance and I’m sure some of you must have come across this situation
before. He is a brilliant programmer – He basically goes home and
that’s all he does. He has a website that he has uploaded some games that
he has developed to and has even linked in an online high scores table. He has
attended most of the Uni courses in holiday periods plus completed a few night
courses. He is the only student all year to comprehensively fulfil all of the
criteria of the applications in U3O2 and U4O1. However, English is his worst
subject. He can’t put pen to paper and has recently sat one of the
practice exams for me (The Insight one) and got 7/88, 6 of which were from
multiple choice. His comprehension is shocking even though practically he can
easily apply things like 2D arrays, quick sorts, binary searches, stacks,
queues, etc. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>My question is this – How are these type of students
treated in the final results? This must be the hardest subject to have rankings
in because you give students fair marks for their programs but it doesn’t
mean that they can sit down and write about it in a final exam. For example, in
Business Management all SACs were tests as was the final exam which made for
consistent rankings, however much of the SAC marks this year were for
programming skills and their application, but the exam is written.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Has anyone had a student like this before??????<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Good luck to all in the exam!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Trav<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"'>Travis
Parker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Head of ICT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Beaconhills College Pakenham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'>(</span></b><span
style='color:black'> 03 5945 3016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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