[Informatics] Performance Descriptors

[Christophersen, Paula P]

Hello David and colleagues

The rubrics in the Advice for teachers are holistic statements about evidence that you would typically see in student work at varying levels. The performance descriptors relate to the outcomes, not to specific criteria like the SAT.

A marking scheme prioritises aspects of a task and is quantitative. It is completely appropriate to use a marking scheme, and then you might use the performance descriptors to assist in determining what score a student should get on specific aspects of the task. For example, if 10 marks are allocated to designing the solution in Task 1 of Outcome 1, then the descriptors in the rubric provide an indication of what work would look like at varying levels of performance – a student would score poorly if inappropriate tools were used and there were errors of fact and logic or they would score well if the design tools related to be functionality and appearance of the solution, they were appropriate and were error free.

Regards
Paula



Paula Christophersen
Curriculum Manager, Digital Technologies
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
2 Lonsdale Street
MELBOURNE 3000
(03) 9032 1724
0407 043 110

From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of David B. Thomas
Sent: Monday, 7 March 2016 10:04 PM
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Subject: [Informatics] Performance Descriptors

Hi,
I'm probably missing something but when I look at the DLTV resources for U3O1 I see a great marking scheme; rather like the one I was going to implement. Then I look at the performance descriptors for U3O1 on the VCAA website and see a rubric with very limited tasks described at a fairly high level.

Is the VCAA performance descriptors rubric just a high level guide for us to develop a low level marking scheme as per DLTV?
Regards,
David.

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