[Year 12 SofDev] A question - using later exam information in earlier questions

[Darren Scott]

I vaguely remember Kevork (I think? Or was it one of the other sages of the group ...) saying something about this in the past, and how it was unfair to expect the students to use later information and recraft their answers. Given the level of ESL/EAL/learning difficulties in our student bodies, I'd assume any use of "future" information is accidental. Now I'm thinking about it though, there's no reason students have to do the exam in order and we (well, I) even encourage "cherry picking" so that the kids lock away their comfortable topics first. It's only an opinion, but I'd assume every question should be able to be done with the question prompt and (for part C) the case study only.

Darren



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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Tony Crewe
Sent: Monday, 29 August 2016 1:28 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <sofdev at edulists.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] A question - using later exam information in earlier questions

Mark,

My gut feeling is same as yours.
Difficult to see students expected to use new info introduced later when responding to earlier question.

... But I do tell my students to check back when new info is presented.

Tony Crewe

On 29 Aug 2016, at 1:19 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com<mailto:mark at vceit.com>> wrote:
Hi, Monday-lovers,

I've resumed work on suggested solutions<http://vceit.com/wp/software-development/sd-sample-exam/> to the VCAA sample SD paper<http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/technology/it-softdev-specs-samp.pdf> (since two whole people seem to want me to finish it). I'm looking at section C.

You will notice immediately that the case study is identical to the 2011 SD exam<http://vceit.com/p/postmortem-2011s.htm>, but you can't blame VCAA for issuing a greatest hits album from time to time.

Anyway.

C2 asks for constraints. I decided not to suggest 'security' - even if was obvious - since it was not mentioned as an issue of concern in the case study, and kids are enjoined to only provide answers that are relevant to the case study.

Then the introduction to C4 announces that security is a concern after all.

I wondered: should students use information provided in later questions (C4) to answer earlier questions (C2).

My gut feeling is 'no', but students are expected to read the entire paper before answering any questions... so maybe markers do expect them rely on information provided anywhere in the paper.

It has not been a big issue  in real VCAA exams in the past, but it's a question that got me thinking.

What do you think?

Mark

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