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

[Mark KELLY]

NS and flowcharts may not be in the study design, but they are clearly
methods for expressing an algorithm and must be acceptable answers, IMHO.

On 14 September 2011 10:28, Travis Parker <
Travis.Parker at beaconhills.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> 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).****
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> *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****
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> VITTA should have sent you the updated files, Travis.
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> VK3CFI
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> *On Wed Sep 14 7:13 , 'Travis Parker' sent:*****
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> Guys,****
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> 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:****
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> 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!****
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> …..or have I just been using incorrect terminology for 8 months?!?!?!?**
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