[Year 12 IT Apps] Important constraint on ITA U3O2

[Ben Hines]

So those QATS with the tables in need to be jumbled around a little and purposefully non normalised?

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Friday, 3 February 2012 1:33 PM
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Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Important constraint on ITA U3O2

Hi all.

The recently-released report on 2011 ITA outcome audits has revealed a subtle and previously-unannounced task requirement.

The data given to students should not be normalised or presented in a form that gives big clues as to what tables are required.

This is not explicitly specified anywhere, and it's not included in the list of key skills, but the key knowledge dotpoints about students having to know normalisation implicitly suggest it.

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The next editions of the study design's advice to teachers and the assessment handbook should make this task requirement clear and explicit.

There's quite enough to be mindful of when writing outcomes without having to interpret the implied subtleties of every key knowledge dotpoint.
If VCAA have explicit demands of tasks, these demands should be made explicit.

</editorial>

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