[Year 12 SofDev] U4O1 Task 2 - Report/Test

Tue Aug 16 08:37:27 EST 2011

Dear colleagues

I must admit that I am concerned about the varying interpretations of the study design and assessment handbook.

Task 2 reads:
User documentation and an explanation of how security and legal matters are managed when creating solutions in one of the following:

*         a written report

*         a test.
I think that all of this concern is related to the absence of a comma after 'user documentation,'
As stated previously, the key skill states that students must use software to create their user documentation, so for Task 2:

*         students create user documentation using software

*         students complete a test or written report to explain '...how security and legal matters are managed ...'
Hope this clears up the concerns about the task.
Thanks for the discussion about this matter.

Regards
Paula

Paula Christophersen
ICT Curriculum Manager
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment
Authority
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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Kevork Krozian
Sent: Tuesday, 16 August 2011 7:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] U4O1 Task 2 - Report/Test

Hi Mark,

A careful reading of p 36-37 of the assessment handbook indicates Task 2 is to be completed as either a test or a report. The description of task 2 has 3 components, user doc, security and legal matters. The performance descriptors for achievement level describe performance in all of these 3 components.

Therefore, I am left scratching my head as to how User Doc can fall outside task 2 or is a separate issue to allocating either a test or report as the mode of assessment and assessing all of user doc, security and legal matters in the one task.

Is the suggestion that user doc can be a report and security and legal a test ?  Or that user doc is completed as part of task 1 but allocated a score in task 2 and only questions relevant to security and legal are found in the task 2 document ?

I do take your point about the ITA/SD crossover.

Mildly confused .......

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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Monday, 15 August 2011 8:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] U4O1 Task 2 - Report/Test

Hi Kevork.  My reasoning was that the test/report decision on the legal/security issues knowledge was a 50/50 split, but I wanted my ITA kids who were in SD to get practice in writing extended responses for the anticipated 8-mark questions in the ITA exam.

As Paula mentioned, user documentation is a separate issue.

Regards

Mark

On 14 August 2011 19:39, Kevork Krozian <kevork at edulists.com.au<mailto:kevork at edulists.com.au>> wrote:
The top score descriptor for Task 2 includes the following:

"User documentation is appropriate, logically sequenced, complete and accurate. Presentation is clear and consistent with generally accepted conventions."

Could it be a test would make it hard to deliver this ?

Kind Regards

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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au>] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
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I'm doing a report.  I had a good reason at one stage, but I can't remember it now  ;-)
On 13 August 2011 19:42, Margaret King Iaquinto <iaquinto at ozemail.com.au<mailto:iaquinto at ozemail.com.au>> wrote:
Thanks for that, Mark. No matter how many marks for user doc, I reckon it must be a really focused task for the user doc. I'm thinking of a trouble-shooting guide for a specific process in my case study. Something short and sweet. Are you doing a test or a report for the security/legal?

VK3CFI

On Sat Aug 13 16:17 , Mark KELLY sent:
For me, 10 for user doc. 5 for security/legal.  Pennypinching, I know, but there's little choice...
On 13 August 2011 12:51, Margaret Iaquinto <iaquinto at ozemail.com.au<mailto:iaquinto at ozemail.com.au>> wrote:
Task 2 has only 15 marks out of 60 and some marks go to the user
documentation. What are people doing for the breakdown in marks with
Task 2? The user doc can't be a big task -- but that's OK. And the
remainder of marks are split between security and legal.

Is it better to have Task 2 relate directly to the case study and SRS of
Task 1? Or to have these marks on a new topic(s)?

Report? Test? Any ideas?

Maggie
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