[Year 12 Its] VCAA CD ROM: Implementing VCE IT

[Stephen Digby]

study design is your key reference (also include any articles published in
the VCAA Bulletin and the VCE and VCAL Administrative Handbook)
I wish you could maintain the study design for us as a complete coherent
statement of current practice online so we did not have to worry about
missing an addendum or amendment....
 
Also 
Does this mean that the assessment handbook is NOT mandatory ??? i.e. I can
interpret the study design's assessment advice on my own ??
 
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Subject: [Year 12 Its] VCAA CD ROM: Implementing VCE IT



Dear colleagues

 

Schools should be receiving from VCAA on 11 December a CD ROM titled
'Implementing VCE IT', which is designed to support teachers implement the
reaccredited study in 2007 (and beyond). Use this in conjunction with all of
the valuable advice you receive from your colleagues on this list. But, also
remember, that at the end of the day, it is the study design that sets the
parameters of the curriculum and assessment. I'm particularly mindful of
this in light of the recent press articles regarding a question on the
Health and Human Development examination paper. 

 

When developing learning programs and designing assessment tasks, the study
design is your key reference (also include any articles published in the
VCAA Bulletin and the VCE and VCAL Administrative Handbook). The assessment
handbook and any other resources provided by VCAA, such as the CD ROM, and
other individuals and agencies, can assist you in developing learning and
assessment programs, but they do not carry the status of 'mandatory'. The
same goes for textbooks and commercially published assessment tasks. You
cannot use as a defence the lack of coverage or inaccuracy of a publication.
So please, when preparing any material, use the study design as your pivotal
reference point and critically assess the quality of all other support
material.  

 

I'll now step down from my soap box!

 

Regards

Paula

 

Paula Christophersen

ICT Curriculum Manager

Victorian Curriculum and Assessment

Authority

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EAST MELBOURNE 3002

Phone: 03 9651 4378

Fax: 03 9651 4324

 

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