[Year 12 IPM] 2005 Exam

[Mark Kelly]

Steve Colley wrote:
> To All
> 
> I would like to say that I thought that the exam was generally a good
> one. Yes, there were a couple of issues that have been widely discussed,
> but overall the exam gave more capable students a chance to display some
> of their knowledge. In fact, I think the exam this year allowed that
> more than in years gone by.
> 
> Its interesting how we focus on the negatives. Do we teach like that? I
> hope not.
> 
> All of us have written SAC's and tests and exams that we thought were
> brilliant, only to find that the moment that the kids start on it, there
> are issues and ambiguities galore. Its not so easy!!!!!!

The examiners are meant to be the ultimate practitioners of question 
writing.  Their testing and vetting is supposed to identify exactly 
those ambiguities and errors in questions.

They should *not* be making the sorts of errors a typical classroom 
teacher makes.  There's too much at stake.

It's a bit like saying the average driver has an accident every so 
often, so airline pilots should be allowed the same privilege.

> For the future, the change I would like to see is a longer and more
> challenging exam that stretches even the capable kids, and then let the
> stats take care of the rest. It would reward kids who work hard and
> develop a large deal of knowledge.
> 
> To the examiners, I would like to says thanks because I think it's a
> very difficult job that wont please everyone.
> 
> Yours 
> Stephen Colley 
> Special Projects Manager
> 
> The Peninsula School 
> 97887762 
> scolley at tps.vic.edu.au 
> Disclaimer 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Mark Scott
> Sent: Friday, 11 November 2005 2:41 PM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
> Teachers'MailingList
> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] Exam Post Mortem now online
> 
> The use of the file on her website is not illegal because she has
> illegally copied it.
> 
> It is illegal because she did not obtain permission from the author.
> 
> Response d is the correct one.
> 
> All of the MC questions have an obvious answer. Some contain distracters
> as in Q18 but that is what MC questions are all about.
> 
> My problem with the Multiple Guess questions is that some of the stems
> are too confusing as in Q5 and to a lesser degree Q4 and Q18
> 
> BUT all have obvious answers 5(d), 4(d) and 18(d)
> 
> The d's have it.
> 
> Mark Scott
> Luther College
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of WEIR Andrew
> Sent: Friday, 11 November 2005 2:03
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
> Teachers'MailingList
> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] Exam Post Mortem now online
> 
> Mark I agree.
> Also Australia does not have a fair use policy this is what allows the
> Americans to make copies of there cd's to a digital device or cd. We
> don't have this law so just the initial ripping of the cd is illegal the
> rest increases the level of illegality (for want of a better term).
> 
> Andrew
> 
> Andrew Weir
> Head Of Information Technology
> VK3HFT
> Thomas Carr College
> 35 Thomas Carr College Tarneit
>  
> Phone 9748 4466
> Fax 9748 4388
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
> Sent: Friday, 11 November 2005 1:43 PM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
> Teachers'Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Exam Post Mortem now online
> 
> Hi Stella.  Yes, it means (d) but another part of the copyright law 
> definitely means (b).  The question does refer to "Sheena's use of the 
> file on her website" but she first broke the law by converting it to 
> MP3.  She couldn't have done <D> without first doing <B>.
> 
> So there are TWO right answers, AFAIAC, and I would expect VCAA to 
> accept either.  (In Q5 I would expect them to accept any answer from A 
> to Z!)
> 
> If we need to split hairs like this, it's the sign of another dog of a 
> question.  Surely this stuff doesn't plague other VCE exams.  Does 
> anyone know of such SNAFUs in other studies?
> 
> LOUCA, Stella wrote:
> 
>>Hi all isn't this fun!
>>
>> 
>>
>>I've just checked out Mark's Post Mortem but I have to agree with
> 
> Janet 
> 
>>on MC Q18 being (d), not (b). The law "... gives copyright owners the 
>>right to control how their work is communicated electronically to the 
>>public or made available online." (Pp 128, IPM text by Graham, Meyenn,
> 
> 
>>Thatcher)
>>
>> 
>>
>>I'm pretty sure this means (d). Just my own humble opinion, Mark -
> 
> don't 
> 
>>shoot me J
>>
>> 
>>
>>Everything else in MC I agree with.
>>
>> 
>>
>>Ciao for now
>>
>> 
>>
>>**Stella Louca**
>>
>> 
>>
>>Web Site Manager
>>
>>IT & English Teacher
>>
>> 
>>
>>**Kew**** High School**
>>
>>1393 Burke Road
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>>East Kew  VIC  3102
>>
>>Australia
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>>
>>PH: (03) 9859 8652
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>>Fax: (03) 9819 7880
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>>Email: stella.louca at kew.vic.edu.au
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> <mailto:stella.louca at kew.vic.edu.au>
> 
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>>*From:* ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au
> 
> [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] 
> 
>>*On Behalf Of *Bane, Janet A
>>*Sent:* Thursday, 10 November 2005 2:45 PM
>>*To:* Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management 
>>Teachers'Mailing List
>>*Subject:* RE: [Year 12 IPM] Exam Post Mortem now online
>>
>> 
>>
>>Great job, as usual Mark.  I only have a couple of queries -  Question
> 
> 3 
> 
>>SA asked for kids to " Select **two** of the three storage mediums 
>>listed below and identify one limitation and one capability, and
> 
> explain 
> 
>>the method by which data is recorded for each. (6 marks)"  - lots of
> 
> my 
> 
>>kids thought they had to say the method by which data is recorded by
> 
> the 
> 
>>**user.  (**ie, put your USB flash drive into the USB port, open your 
>>folder/file, drag your files across to removable storage drive, or
> 
> copy 
> 
>>and paste), rather than how the device actually records it.  Another 
>>case of ambiguous wording!
>>
>> 
>>
>>Secondly Q16 MC - the one about strategic or tactical - 12 months
> 
> seems 
> 
>>to be a viable time frame for tactical decisions, butI guess it
> 
> depends 
> 
>>on high how up the food chain the "marketing manager" is - senior 
>>manager?  middle manager?  It doesn't actually say.
>>
>> 
>>
>>Question 18 MC - the one about putting someone else's song on the 
>>website - clearly its illegal, but I think the answer could be D given
> 
> 
>>that you aren't supposed to use other's works without permission.
> 
> Isn't 
> 
>>that what the Copyright Amendement Digital Agenda Act says? 
>>
>> 
>>
>>Question 8 Short answer - obviously option 1 as it actually has a DVD 
>>burner, the other one doesn't.
>>
>> 
>>
>>Question 9 SA - I think the paper, although generally fair, did
> 
> display 
> 
>>a certain bias towards students who had studied databases rather than 
>>spreadsheets.  Question 9 is an example of this - whilst my students 
>>knew about range checks, most of them also gave IF statements as
> 
> another 
> 
>>way of checking. I hope this answer would be considered acceptable.  
>> Data type checks (although mentioned by me several times) obviously
> 
> did 
> 
>>not penetrate the permeable layer as they didn't actually do any in 
>>class.  It was also handy to have done databases for Questions 2 SA
> 
> and 
> 
>>Q4 SA, although obviously common sense should prevail and the answer
> 
> is 
> 
>>logical if they **think** about it!
>>
>> 
>>
>>Enjoyed your post mortem, thanks!
>>
>> 
>>
>>Janet Bane
>>
>>Patterson River SC
>>
>> 
>>
>> 
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> 
>>*From:* ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Mark Kelly
>>*Sent:* Thu 10-Nov-05 12:52 PM
>>*To:* Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management 
>>Teachers'Mailing List
>>*Subject:* [Year 12 IPM] Exam Post Mortem now online
>>
>>My annual whinge is now online at
>>
>>
> 
> http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/la/it/ipmnotes/exam/2005exam/index.htm
> 
>>Feel free to carp, bicker and protest.
>>
>>--
>>Mark Kelly


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Mark Kelly
McKinnon Secondary College
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