[Year 12 SofDev] B3 - cost effective

[Kent Beveridge]

I also find a concern with that question of 'producing code quicklly'...

For me, its a tad too 'open' in the nature of the question with the potential to get some rather odd responses from students.(I dont envy the assessors on these styles of question).

Kent.



Kent Beveridge
ICT Coordinator & Maths Teacher
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A9 – Students must know the definitions of efficiency and effectiveness to answer this. I sure hope my students did well since I reviewed these definitions regularly during the year.

In B3, however, the term ‘cost effective’ is used. Since 1991 I have stressed the definitions of efficiency and effectiveness and have not ever used ‘cost effective’. Where did this come from? Did anyone else have a problem with it? And since we already have a question about efficiency and effectiveness, why another one? I recognise that there is some help when the question says ‘produce code quickly’ and differentiates it from ‘quality of the program’ so students can separate these concepts.

Look, I’m not jumping up and down about the question but it strikes me as odd.

Any comment from folks out there?

Maggie
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