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<p class="MsoNormal">A9 – Students must know the definitions of efficiency and effectiveness to answer this. I sure hope my students did well since I reviewed these definitions regularly during the year.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In B3, however, the term ‘cost effective’ is used. Since 1991 I have stressed the definitions of efficiency and effectiveness and have not ever used ‘cost effective’. Where did this come from? Did anyone else have a problem with it? And
since we already have a question about efficiency and effectiveness, why another one? I recognise that there is some help when the question says ‘produce code quickly’ and differentiates it from ‘quality of the program’ so students can separate these concepts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Look, I’m not jumping up and down about the question but it strikes me as odd.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any comment from folks out there?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maggie<o:p></o:p></p>
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