[Year 12 SofDev] Student ranking query

[Mark KELLY]

Sadly, it's not at all unusual to have this syndrome. I have several ESL in
SD and while their software was great, they could not cope with the
question & answer part of the course - and of course that's the majority of
any VCE subject.

Your student might have been better off in VET or TAFE instead of VCE...

On 4 November 2011 09:37, Travis Parker <
Travis.Parker at beaconhills.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Colleagues,****
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> 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. ****
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> 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.****
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> Has anyone had a student like this before??????****
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> Good luck to all in the exam!****
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> Trav****
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> Travis Parker****
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> Head of ICT****
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> Beaconhills College Pakenham****
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> *(* 03 5945 3016****
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