[Year 12 IPM] VITTA exams 2004

[Mark Scott]

Sam

I like the occasional ambiguous question.

I have the students sit an exam (under exam conditions) and then in the
next double lesson they spend the first lesson in groups comparing
answers and self-correcting their exams. The second lesson we compare
answers as a class (me with the solutions). The ambiguous questions are
often the most useful in helping the students actually think about what
is being asked and how they will structure their answers.

Mark Scott
Luther College
 
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move
with it, and join the dance." Alan Watts


-----Original Message-----
From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Sam Denniston
Sent: Friday, 13 October 2006 7:15 AM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'
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Subject: [Year 12 IPM] VITTA exams 2004

Does anyone else find that the VITTA practice exams for 2004 contain a
rather motley bunch of ambiguously-worded questions that you would be
hard
pressed to find in an actual exam? They've caused a lot of grief with
both
myself and the students... Actually, a generalisation; however some
questions just do not make much sense. Anyone else experienced this?

Sam.


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