[Informatics] Audit

Tue Jul 17 00:34:04 EDT 2018

Good Afternoon all,

I am sharing my bit of wisdom with you.

You must not use any commercial SAC's for the student SAC (although it's helpful to look at samples).
The SAC you write has to be distinctively different in terms of the content and case study to any commercial SAC or any previous SAC that you have created.
For commercial SAC's, you also need to check if the marking guide is accurate. For example, the Nelson textbook sample SAC's have an inaccurate marking guide. It is marked out of 40 whereas VCAA specifies that it should be marked out of 100.

VCAA requires that you never re-use a SAC and that every year you should change the case study and content of the SAC.

For example, Unit 4, Outcome 2 SAC is on Information Management. The SAC must be based on two organisations. They can be from any two organisations of different size and from different industries or they can be from the same industry but two different organisations.

The SAC should not have questions. Only statements as prompts.
E.g.
-Identify similarities and differences between the information management strategies of each organisation
-Compare the current information management strategies used by each organisation to monitor and control their data and information
-Propose and apply criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of information management strategies
-Discuss possible consequences of ineffective information management strategies
-Recommend information management strategies to improve current practices

Within the 5 broad areas, students are expected to cover more depth.
E.g. For the "Discuss possible consequences of ineffective information management strategies", the guideline for the student response is hinted in the marking criteria.

a) Reference key legislation that affects how organisations control the storage and disposal of their data and information: the Privacy Act 1988, the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014, and the Health Records Act 2001.
b) Describe a potential ethical dilemma arising from information management practices.
c) List strategies for resolving legal and ethical tensions between stakeholders arising from information management practices.

As per page 37 of the VCAA Informatics Study Design, Unit 4, Outcome 2 should be marked out of 100 marks. You have a choice of a written report OR an annotated visual report.

I usually conduct the SAC under exam conditions and give students two hours to complete the written report.

I hope this information helps to clarify what VCAA expects.

Kind Regards,
Mr Dinh Tran

e-Learning Co-ordinator
Direct Line: (03) 9433 0737

-----Original Message-----
From: informatics <informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au> On Behalf Of Andrew Shortell
Sent: Tuesday, 17 July 2018 8:52 AM
To: Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List <informatics at edulists.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Informatics] Audit

Hi Sylvia

if you were fair and equal to all your students then they will survive ;-^

there is a level of precision that not all of us reach exactly … A few years ago I failed a small single part of an audit and the school where I was working took me off the subject permanently!

For your unit 4 - return to the advice to teachers and look again at the study design line for line.
All of the ones that you purchase are not guaranteed perfect though the sellers work really hard to try to make them so.

None of us are as good as VCAA!

Andrew
At Strathmore Secondary College in 2018

> On 16 Jul 2018, at 10:07 pm, Sylvia Pastore <smp191172 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all
> Would anyone be able to share with me their unit 03 Outcome 01 sac. I was audited and use the DLTV one with slight changes, but my audit came back unsuccessful. Which is really a blow as I thought I was doing the right thing. I have now been audited for Unit 4. So was hoping I could see what some of you have done for Outcome 1 Unit 3 so I can see where I went wrong.
> Also if anyone that has done the audit for unit 4 has any advise I sincerely would appreciate it. Feeling really deflated.
> Sylvia
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