[Year 12 SofDev] My U3O1 SAC - 2008

[andrew barry]

Hi,

Yes I cover the theory initially but i dont spend all lesson on it. The exam
is 50% so like you the best way to do an exam is to do exam questions come
Term3.

Outcome 1 i have found doesn't require nearly as much work as outcome 2?
Most my class doesn't know VB.net but the network design doesn't take long
to teach as many questions on it are comprehension. Also the sac after that
is practical.


On 4/11/08, Claudia Graham <claudia.graham at overnewton.vic.edu.au> wrote:
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>  Hi Andrew,
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> Personally I do the opposite, I find Semester 1 very heavy on with theory.
> We do 3-4 sessions out of 9 (a fortnight) in programming, sometime less, the
> rest is theory as Outcome 1 requires so much knowledge. Outcome 2 on the
> other hand students can handle quite well as they all did design, testing,
> validation etc in previous years.
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> I do revision tests quite regularly and do an end of semester test to
> cover the material for Unit 3.
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> I must admit I do push the line that the exam is 50% of the course so we
> will be doing 50% of our work on it throughout the year. My students have
> already had a go at last years exams, and from the beginning of June will do
> an exam paper a week.
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> Just my approach not necessarily better.
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> Claudia
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> *From:* sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *andrew barry
> *Sent:* Thursday, 10 April 2008 8:17 PM
> *To:* Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 SofDev] My U3O1 SAC - 2008
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> Hi,
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> How are people mixing theory with computer work?
> I am teaching VB.net and alss covering quickly the theory in the SD book.
>
> I will concentrate on their VB.net learning for SACs and term3 will
> concentrate on exam style questions from checkpoints book. I think this is
> where you need to work at their theory, when it is an exam style question
> organized in topics.
>
> I just think it is a waste of time covering theory in great depth now but
> my class takes notes and does some questions.
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