[Year 12 SofDev] Student ranking query

[Adrian Janson]

Hi Travis,

 

You have described half of my cohort!!!  Actually - they tend not to be
quite as extreme as this for me - but I do have 1 or 2 like this every year.
Unfortunately, in my experience, they do very badly.  (and by badly - I mean
"not as good as they should") and I think that doing a written exam for
these types of students is their Achilles heel.  Often I find that their
handwriting is very hard to understand too (for a double whammy!)

 

Cheers,

Adrian

 

Adrian Janson B.Sc, Dip.Ed, M.Ed
Director of ICT
Melbourne High School, Forrest Hill, South Yarra, Victoria 3141 Australia.
Phone: 03 9826 0711 International: +61 3 9826 0711
Fax: 03 9826 8767 International: +61 3 9826 8767
E-mail: janson.adrian.a at edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au <http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au/> 

Blog: http://jansona.edublogs.org <http://jansona.edublogs.org/> 

 

 

 

 

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Travis Parker
Sent: Friday, 4 November 2011 9:38 AM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Student ranking query

 

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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