[Year 12 IT Apps] 2012 ITA U4O2 QAT

[Christophersen, Paula P]

Dear colleagues

The outcome statement for Unit 4 Outcome 2 requires students to address more than one organisation in their test/report/annotate visual report. This does not mean having to provide two discrete case studies, but there needs to be stimulus material or question/s that relate to the practices of another organisation. 

As stated in the School-assessed coursework report last year (http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/vce/technology/2011ITApplicationsSAC.pdf) there were a range of factors warranting attention to this task such as the lack of reference to cloud computing, resolution of legal, social and ethical tensions, new legislation, only one organisation mentioned, as well as other matters such as the task not adequately allowing discrimination, misalignment between the task and the marking guide, and wrong task type. No school was deemed to be non-compliant for only focusing on one organisation, and there were many schools that submitted tasks that addressed more than one organisation.

If you want further clarification about this outcome, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards
Paula


Paula Christophersen
ICT Curriculum Manager
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment
Authority
(03) 9651 4378


-----Original Message-----
From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of annaa at stjohnspreston.vic.edu.au
Sent: Monday, 10 September 2012 2:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] 2012 ITA U4O2 QAT


My year 12s finish the school year this term as they started year 12 term 4 2011.

The students have just finished their last Sac. U4O2

Not sure what to do.

Anna


Quoting Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>:

> Hi all. People have asked about the 2012 U4O2 QAT only including one 
> organisation.  This is how it stands:
> 
> 1. Paula has said that no audited ITA U4O2 task was deemed 
> non-compliant if that was the only issue with it.
> 
> 2. Paula has told me that "what's in the study design goes." This must 
> include the ITA U4O2 detailed example (p.74)  which also has only one 
> organisation in it, upon which QAT was modelled.
> 
> 3. New QATs will be available for 2013, and these will honour the 
> secretive but significant "S" in U4O2.
> 
> 4. If you still haven't done U4O2 and want to use the QAT, you might 
> want to tweak question 8.  Replace 'X' with the name of the main 
> character of the case study.
> 
> *Question 8*. X talks to a friend, Benny Andersson, who is startled 
> when he hears of X's data management methods. Benny says that in his 
> small business he not only does backups, but also has a very effective 
> data disaster recovery plan. Describe what Benny's plan probably 
> includes, and compare how Benny and X would be affected by 
> catastrophic data loss. (4)
> 
> Regards
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> --
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> Learning Area McKinnon Secondary College McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, 
> Victoria, Australia
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