[Year 12 SofDev] Ensuring students meet the criteria

[Mary Ho]

Did you break the criteria down so that they were looking for specifics in
order for the students to know where they were at, or did you just use the
generic sections of Assessment Criteria 5 and 6?

Thanks in advance

On 28 July 2016 at 10:02, Philip Feain <feainp at stkevins.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Dear All
>
> Last term I was concerned about the lack of attention to detail that
> students gave to meeting the criteria for the SAT. It just seemed that
> students got into a train of practice with their work and did not evaluate
> against the criteria before submission.
>
> Yesterday I did the formal observation for Criteria 5 and 6 and most
> students were on the way to being able to submit their solution next
> Wednesday.
>
> So I thought I would get them to evaluate where they were at today. I got
> them to produce hard copies of Criteria 5 and 6 and then tick off where
> they thought they were achieving each descriptor for each level across the
> seven sets of descriptors. I also told them to be harsh in their judgement.
>
> When I went around the room to look at what they had ticked it was great
> to have that quick conversation about what they needed to be focusing on.
> Some students were a little bit stunned at what they were seeing.
>
> This didn't take long for the students to complete and they went back to
> working on their task while I walked around the room chatting to students.
>
> I have asked students to keep this in front of them when working on their
> solution and to update as they progress. Hopefully this will ensure better
> attention to detail.
>
> On another note, it was interesting to see that many students are doing
> little on internal documentation and validation now while concentrating on
> the more complex tasks. These are two areas students can do very well in
> regardless of all the other complexities. It does worry me that these will
> be the areas that get rushed or neglected towards meeting the deadline for
> submission. It might be worthwhile seeing how your students are going here.
>
> Regards
>
> Phil.
>
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