[Year 12 IT Apps] 2010 ITA examiners' report

[Mark Scott]

Cab anybody who marked the VCAA papers confirm that this was indeed the answer that they were supplied with to mark the papers?

Pls reply to Mark K or myself (and not to the whole group) and we will keep your identity anonymous.

Mark Scott
Luther College

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2011 12:09 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] 2010 ITA examiners' report

>From the 2010 ITA Exam - Question 5B.  I have a belated complaint now that I've seen the examiner's official answer in the assessment report<http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/vce/studies/infotech/it-applications/assessreports/2010/itapps_assessrep_10.pdf>.

Can someone please point out if I'm wrong, but I think they've badly messed up the answer, and kids will have unfairly lost up to 4 marks.

>From the PERT chart ...
[cid:image001.jpg at 01CC1624.EC873760]

They asked for a corresponding Gantt chart. Their solution was this:

[cid:image002.gif at 01CC1624.EC873760]

It's obvious in the PERT that tasks A and B are concurrent.  B is not dependent on A!
Yet in their Gantt, they've clearly shown task B as being dependent on A.
Then, they went on to leave out fact that that tasks E and D were also dependent on task B through the dummy task.

I hate to think that my kids lost marks because of these errors by the examiners.
It's too late to re-mark exams, but it really makes me worry that markers can be given such dodgy official answers when grading papers.

Grrrrr!


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