[Year 12 SofDev] Student ranking query

[Travis Parker]

Colleagues,

 

In my short teaching career I have taught year 12 Business Management,
IT Apps, Cert III Multimedia and this is my first year of teaching
Software Development. I have a student that is really concerning me
about his performance and I'm sure some of you must have come across
this situation before. He is a brilliant programmer - He basically goes
home and that's all he does. He has a website that he has uploaded some
games that he has developed to and has even linked in an online high
scores table. He has attended most of the Uni courses in holiday periods
plus completed a few night courses. He is the only student all year to
comprehensively fulfil all of the criteria of the applications in U3O2
and U4O1. However, English is his worst subject. He can't put pen to
paper and has recently sat one of the practice exams for me (The Insight
one) and got 7/88, 6 of which were from multiple choice. His
comprehension is shocking even though practically he can easily apply
things like 2D arrays, quick sorts, binary searches, stacks, queues,
etc. 

 

My question is this - How are these type of students treated in the
final results? This must be the hardest subject to have rankings in
because you give students fair marks for their programs but it doesn't
mean that they can sit down and write about it in a final exam. For
example, in Business Management all SACs were tests as was the final
exam which made for consistent rankings, however much of the SAC marks
this year were for programming skills and their application, but the
exam is written.

 

Has anyone had a student like this before??????

 

Good luck to all in the exam!

 

Trav

 

 

 

 

 

Travis Parker

Head of ICT

Beaconhills College Pakenham

( 03 5945 3016

 

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