<div dir="ltr">Thanks, Paula. Just to clarify things...<div><div><br></div><div>Both the <i>Software Development</i> and <i>Informatics</i> SAT Admin Info PDFs say on p.3:</div><div>"As the project progresses in <b>Unit 3</b>,students should be recording any adjustments to their original plan." </div><div><br></div><div>This explicitly refers to <b>unit 3</b>. I can find no similar commandment relating to unit 4.</div><div><br></div><div>So, ongoing changes to the plan are <b>not</b> required to be recorded during <b>unit 4 </b>in either SD or Info? </div><div>And students will not be penalised if they have no evidence of plan adjustments made in <b>unit 4</b>?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div>On 7 March 2016 at 07:56, Christophersen, Paula P <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christophersen.paula.p@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">christophersen.paula.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">The assessment of the project plan is one task within U4O1. When assessing this task you will basically look for two lots of evidence:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Adjustments made to the plan during the course of the project<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">A statement about how the plan assisted in the monitoring of the project.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">The third sentence in the Administrative Information (page 4, ‘In addition to acknowledging adjustments, students must explain the usefulness …) is explanatory
of the first two sentences – it is not an additional requirement. The reason for its inclusion was to emphasise that students need to address the usefulness of the plan for each stage of the PSM but unfortunately it has caused confusion. I will get the sentence
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Paula Christophersen<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark<span class=""><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 6 March 2016 11:42 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
</span><span class=""><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] SD SAT - admin info PDF - U4O1 assessment of project plan<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good luck assessing it, then.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The SD SAT admin info's instructions for the assessment of the project plan roughly says (p.4):<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><i>Students explain how their plan assisted in monitoring the progress of the project. </i><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Students explain the usefulness of the plan in monitoring their progress through the stages of the PSM</i><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can anyone please tell me the difference between these two tasks?<u></u><u></u></p>
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