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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Has anyone had a student like this before??????<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Good luck to all in the exam!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Trav<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Travis Parker<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Head of ICT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Beaconhills College Pakenham<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>(</span></b><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> 03 5945 3016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>