[Informatics] Delivering U3O1 SAC

[Vella, James]

Hi Scott

What we've typically done here is run SAC's over multiple lessons. Students have a reserved space on the College network in which they save their work. This space is opened before each lesson and closed after each one to prevent authentication issues. Alternatively, I know other schools provide USBs to their students to save their work on to hand back to the teacher at the end of every lesson. Generally students are not completing any work at home.

We are quite different from other studies in that it is unreasonable to expect students to design and develop a working database solution in the one lesson.

We generally (but not always) use the resource kit or other commercially available resources as sample tasks. We then write a similarly structured task with our own case studies. I find its almost always better to write the task myself so I know it's intricacies and what I expect students to write/produce in terms of responses.

Also, be cautious of commercially available material, as even though they may be written for a particular outcome, they may not be based entirely on the performance descriptors and therefore are not an accurate measure of the outcome.

Cheers

James



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From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of McCleary Scott
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Subject: [Informatics] Delivering U3O1 SAC

Hi everyone

I know there was a discussion about "when" to deliver this SAC, but I just wanted to pick your brains in regards to "how" you might be delivering it.

Given a suggested time of 500 minutes how are you going to practically administer this in your classes?  Are you going to only allow students access to materials while in the class, collecting it at the end of each lesson?  Are you going to allow them to take work home with them, which I would assume could have some authentication issues?  SACs I've delivered in other VCE classes have normally been completed within a single class so trying to work this out in a practical sense.

Also, What are people planning for the SAC itself if you're so inclined to say?  Are you looking at using the resource kit sample as your SAC, or providing that to students as a practice and example?  Are people coming up with their own material or are there other resources that people are using?

Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Scott McCleary
John Paul College.


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