FW: [Year 12 Its] New IS study design query

Thu Nov 16 11:37:11 EST 2006

It shouldn't be too far away.  Maybe Paula will have more information on 
the release date.

Hafoka Ross wrote:
> So when is this CD available? 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: is-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
> Behalf Of Mark Kelly
> Sent: Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:10 AM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: FW: [Year 12 Its] New IS study design query
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> It's an official VCAA enterprise :-)
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> Frank Van Den Boom wrote:
>> ...is this a VITTA resource? If so, isn't it just a group's educated 
>> guess on what to cover, not much different to the available texts.
>> Frank
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: is-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au] 
>> On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
>> Sent: Thursday, 16 November 2006 10:41 AM
>> To: Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: FW: [Year 12 Its] New IS study design query
>>
>> The forthcoming implementation CD will give you exactly what you're 
>> looking for  :-)
>>
>> Frank Van Den Boom wrote:
>>> I was a bit surprised to only get one response to the question below 
>>> a
>>> couple of weeks ago. Does that mean that nobody else finds this 
>>> difficult to judge?
>>> Imagine you were an experienced IT practioner and you came in to 
>>> teach
>>> this course with no prior knowledge of it and you were trying to 
>>> figure out what depth was required in programming. So you look at the
>> following :
>>> 1. Study design - very hard to know (see comments in original 
>>> message)
>>> 2. 2006 IS exam - nothing beyond nested IF's - nothing involving 
>>> arrays, records, files. One question with a loop was only concerned 
>>> with identifying variable types, but not control or data structures.
>>> 3. Previous exams - basic use of 1-dim array, basic looping 3. VITTA 
>>> practice exams - suggest you need to have a solid understanding of 
>>> arrays, records, file processing and parameter passing.
>>> 4. Text books - cover algorithms for stacks, queues, linked lists etc
>>>  
>>> At the end of the day, past exams to me are the only general 
>>> indicator
>>> of the depth to cover. Is there a reason why the study design can't 
>>> spell this out more clearly?
>>>  
>>> Frank
>>>
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>>> *From:* is-bounces at edulists.com.au 
>>> [mailto:is-bounces at edulists.com.au]
>>> *On Behalf Of *Frank Van Den Boom
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:41 PM
>>> *To:* is at edulists.com.au
>>> *Subject:* [Year 12 Its] New IS study design query
>>>
>>> Today I started looking more closely at the revised study design to 
>>> plan for next year. One of the things that struck me is that it is 
>>> difficult to know what the minimum content requirements are in a
>> number of areas.
>>> For example-data structures. I don't think it specifically mentions 
>>> any particular data structure. U4O1 key knowledge includes "methods 
>>> of
>>> organising files....serial, sequential, random" which implies the 
>>> need
>>> to cover records. Arrays are not specifically referred to and while, 
>>> it would be pretty dumb to omit them, are 1-dim arrays enough, or 
>>> might exams expect ability to work with multi-dim arrays? What about 
>>> sets, pointers....
>>>  
>>> Another KK point --> 'Forms and uses of data structures to organise 
>>> and manipulate data'. Which data structures?? What types of uses?? - 
>>> all the oldies like sorting, linked lists, queues, binary searches 
>>> etc
>>> are possible here.
>>>  
>>> Now I know we have the flexibility to cover as much of this as we 
>>> want
>>> to for the kids who are really into it, particularly for those who 
>>> already have a reasonable programming foundation as they enter the 
>>> course. But what I don't know is what the minimum requirement is. 
>>> This
>>> becomes more important when most of your group have little to no 
>>> programming experience.
>>>  
>>> What do you think about this?
>>> Frank
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