[Year 12 Its] Primary vs Secondary Data Sources

Kevin Feely feely.kevin.k at edumail.vic.gov.au
Fri May 20 14:35:17 EST 2005


Hi All,
Yep Robert, exactly, and why put a question to do with such definitions 
on an exam? Like being asked in an interview what IWSACDH stands for 
even though you may have extensive knowledge of this project and its 
aims, what has knowing its acronm got to do with it?
regards
Kevin


Robert Timmer-Arends wrote:

>Taking up Mike's point from before, I wonder if we are starting to get too
>hung up on definitions. What is more important: that a student can define
>the difference between primary and secondary data; or that the student can
>identify the most useful sources of data for a given situation?
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>Regards
>Robert T-A
>Brighton SC
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