[Year 12 IT Apps] IT applications 2007 exam: assessor's report

[Mark Kelly]

My stance is that if - after months of thinking, drafting, redrafting, 
consultation, ESL checking, peer-review, test-sitting, and final editing 
- there is ONE question of this nature, something is wrong with the process.

Do any other VCE subjects have exam questions that are simply wrong in 
fact, ambiguous or incomprehensible as IT tends to suffer?

I mean to say, the spreadsheet question did mistake LOOKUP for VLOOKUP. 
  It's like a chem exam referring to chlorine instead of chloride.

Small, perhaps, but significant.

Meadows, Roslyn M wrote:
> Actually it is quite commendable to the examiners when there is only one
> multiple choice question from the exam that creates
> discussion/disagreement.
> 
> I shall continue to tell my students - 
> 	- if two or more choices look correct - choose the BEST ANSWER
> 	- if no choices look correct - choose the BEST ANSWER
> 
> Cheers
> Ros
> 
> 
> Roslyn Meadows
> Head of ICT Implementation
> Head of Assessment and Reporting
> Bentleigh Secondary College 
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> report
> 
> Hello Mark
> 
>> Checking the spelling of a suburb is surely data validation?
> interesting question.
> 
> if a person types Balwin instead of Balwyn does that make the data 
> incorrect? If there is such a place as Balwin I guess at the very least 
> their entry is misleading, and therefore having some sort of scan
> through a 
> list of existing place names would be a useful validation technique. But
> is 
> it the spelling that's being validated or the existence of a place with
> that 
> spelling?
> 
> ...and anyway, does an old CRT monitor falling in the forest make a
> sound if 
> there's no one there to hear it....????
> 
> Two weeks in and mania is already starting to hit
> 
> Regards
> Robert T-A 
> 
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