[Year 12 IPM] FW: some help needed re IT enrolments

[Jim Bunn]

The same trend is here at Hampton Park Secondary College. We do have a stand
alone Information Systems class, but not enough for an IPM class. This is
the first time ever for us. It was going to be scrapped but I convinced the
AP to do a combined 11-12 class. We have enough year 11s to also do a stand
alone year 11 IT as well.

 

Jim Bunn
CCNA CCAI
Technology Coordinator
Hampton Park Secondary College
Victoria  Australia

bunn.jim.c at edumail.vic.gov.au 

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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Fusinato, Margaret M
Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 9:41 AM
To: ipm at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Year 12 IPM] FW: some help needed re IT enrolments

 

I have been approached to post the information below on the IPM list for
open discussion / comments. Any comments posted in open forum I am happy to
forward to Catherine. 

 

At Trafalgar the numbers of students choosing IT are definitely lower than
in the past, as I have previously stated in list discussions. Next year for
the first time I will be running a combined class as the number choosing
Units 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 were not sufficient for a stand alone in each area.
Doing the math, the take up for IPM here is less then 1% and Systems roughly
2% next year. That figure breaks down to about equal male and female in IPM
and in Systems all but one student is male.

 

Margaret Fusinato

Trafalgar High School

 

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Hi Margaret,

 

I thought I would enlist some help from you. The first area is VCE IPM and
IS enrolment statistics/proportions. I want to indicate the proportion of
students who study these subjects. I have searched the VCAA website and
found the 2004 stats, which are fine, and am looking just at unit 4
enrolments.

 

According to this site
(http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2004/statssect1.print.html) in
Table 1.2 Unit results by gender and level 2004, there were 126,119 males
who completed unit 4 VCE subjects, and 144,124 females.

 

Then on the same site, in the individual subject unit completion outcomes,
we have 2222 males who completed the IS subject, and only 176 females, and
in IPM 4933 males and 2384 females.

 

Using my calculator that means that only 1.8% of males in the state
completed IS, and 0.1% of the females.

IPM is slightly better, with 4% of all VCE males and 1.7% of females.

 

Does that seem correct? Do you (or the VCE coordinator) get any report on
where each subject sits on proportional enrolments?

 

It is very low. 

 

Feel free to post my query on your teacher discussion board. I would benefit
from some 'on the ground' input.

 

Catherine Lang

Lecturer, Faculty of ICT

Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

phone: +613 9214 5884

 <http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/ictstaff/clang>
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/ictstaff/clang

MACS, MACM, ACM-W Australian Ambassador

http://www.austwic.com

 

 

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