[Informatics] Info exam A15

[Matheson, Heath A]

I agree with you Mark,

Although I looked at the arrows and thought storyboard straight away, there are heaps of examples of website storyboards without arrows and, as you say, site maps with arrows. It’s only because the textbook made a point of the arrows that I picked storyboard.  Both should be accepted this year but I bet it’s “no arrows on a sitemap”.

I often find it takes a year or two to learn the “VCAA Computing Study Design definition” of a few tools and terms. The glossary went a long way to address this but it’s still not prefect.

I remember in 2010 when the last study design came out that the glossary was separate to the study design so that it could be updated. I presumed for issues like this.  I think it’s a shame that its locked into the study design now as the glossary is a nice one-stop-shop for checking your definitions. Having to find VCAA notices or rely on examiners reports is more difficult.

Heath Matheson
Mount Beauty




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Subject: [Informatics] Info exam A15

Apologies if this has been discussed earlier - I don't read exam-related posts here until I've finished my post mortems.

re. A15 - the site map/storyboard Q. What did you guys think?

Were the arrows meant to say this is a storyboard and not a sitemap?

Since when can an exam assess knowledge of a diagram that VCAA invented out of the blue, and is not defined anywhere else in any VCAA publication?

The study design and sample exam each only mention storyboards once, in passing, as being related to site maps. That's it. No explanation of what storyboards are, let alone what they look like.

VCAA was careful to define the formats for the ERD. Not for storyboards.

So it really annoys me when VCAA invent their own conventions and examine students on them without warning.

I've seen site maps with navigation arrows in The Real World, so the diagram could well be a site map.

The markers had better be instructed to accept either site map or storyboard as correct answers !

Grrr.

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Mark Kelly

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