[Year 12 IPM] Dot plotting software

Wed Jul 26 12:06:35 EST 2006

The "bottom line" of virtually all important educational selection processes
is a condensation of data into a single numeric.
It is only poor practice if you do it from laziness - i.e. you have the time
to consider every criteria and provide feedback on it specifically.
Most do not have the time.... Most would have difficulty in defending any
single criteria judgment in the face of an intelligent student (or parent).
If you end up by condensing criteria into a single grade (or even a comment
that does not stick to mentioning criteria specifically) then you are using
exactly the same process as a person that prefers to do it numerically....
Nearly every black and white is in reality a continuum of greys if you look
at it closely under a clear light...
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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Mark Scott
Sent: 26 July 2006 11:35 AM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'MailingList
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] Dot plotting software

Good to see all that Criterion based assessment nonsense thrown out the
window.

Grade them, percentage them and rank them.

Brendan Nelson would be proud, even though he is no longer in charge of
Education (they gave him Defense to play with and isn't that just a little
scary)

Mark Scott

Luther College

PS Bill, don't take this personally, I'm just having a whinge.

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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Bill Dunne
Sent: Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:31 AM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'MailingList
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] Dot plotting software

Hi Andrew,

Not sure if this helps.

I got sick of converting my marks from one mark to another for SACs etc and
finding what the grade was. so I wrote a simple Excel page which converts
any mark to another and gives the grade and percentage. It just uses a
VLookup function . bit hard to explain.

You could convert each score individually but it is a bit time consuming
putting in individual numbers. So I do a whole batch at once. Grades can be
changed on the table.

I select my printing margin, print out the page and use it as my conversion
table for that set of marks.

As I said, use it if it helps,

Bill D

Bill Dunne

Learning Technology and Communications Coordinator

Catholic Regional College Sydenham,

380 Sydenham Road,

Sydenham, 3037.

Ph-  9390 1444

Fax- 9390 2096

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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Stewart, Andrew
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:25 PM
To: ipm at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Year 12 IPM] Dot plotting software

Does anyone know of any software that allows you to plot student's scores
and allocate grade boundaries?

Cheers

Andrew

Andrew Stewart

Head of Information & Communication Technologies

Ballarat & Clarendon College

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