[Year 12 SofDev] VITTA Unit 4 Exam - MC mistake

[Travis Parker]

Again (And please excuse my ignorance as a first year SD teacher), Question 2B (Short answer) asks “Identify a method for expressing an algorithm”. The obvious answer is pseudocode, which all of my students would put. However, the solution pathway suggest that NS diagrams and flowcharts would be acceptable answers – I thought that they weren’t part of the 2011-2014 Study Design and therefore shouldn’t be accepted, even though technically correct? I would just like clarification on that one (I did teach them both NS-Diagrams and flowcharts in U2 AOS2 when they used the “Friendship algorithm” flowchart from The Big Bang theory and created a program on making friends after converting it to pseudocode).

 

Cheers and thanks again!

 

Trav

 

 

 

 

 

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Margaret King Iaquinto
Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2011 10:19 AM
To: 'Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] VITTA Unit 4 Exam - MC mistake

 

VITTA should have sent you the updated files, Travis. 

VK3CFI 

On Wed Sep 14 7:13 , 'Travis Parker' sent:

Guys,

 

I’m loving tearing apart the VITTA exams and placing them within Key Knowledge for students as sample questions, however have come across another error on Q3 of multiple choice:

 

So either (C) should change “Personal” to “Private” or (D) should change “Verified” to “Virtual”. The solution pathway says (D) is correct, so I might change that, but still give the original question in that form to students to show what may happen on an exam!

 

…..or have I just been using incorrect terminology for 8 months?!?!?!?

 

Cheers

 

Trav

 

 

 

Travis Parker

Head of ICT

Beaconhills College Pakenham

( 03 5945 3016

 

 

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