[Year 12 SofDev] SD SAT admin info

[Mark]

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On Thursday, 3 March 2016, Paragreen, Chris J <
paragreen.chris.j at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> … or perhaps they design the useability test during the design stage, but
> it just doesn’t form part of their assessment for U2O3 …?
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> Perhaps they create the useability CRITERIA in the design stage (U3O2) but
> the actual method of assessing this criteria can be decided later?
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> Hi,SAT navigators. A quick question.
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> VCAA's admin info PDF says at the top of p.4 that "Students must present
> evidence of the useability test that they *designed*, conducted and
> documented."
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> I would have assumed that *all* design should take place during the
> design stage in U3O2 - and be assessed as part of U3O2. But the design of
> the usability test is not included in the design assessment rubric for U3O2.
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> That means that design of the useability test happens during development
> in U4O1 and will be assessed in U4O1.
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> Isn't that contrary to the spirit of the PSM which expects that design
> should be complete before development begins.
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> Yes: I know that the new study design acknowledges Agile and says (p.14)
> that "when creating solutions, this methodology can be applied as a single
> stage-by-stage problem-solving process *or to each iteration of an agile
> problem-solving process*." but Agile does not *deliberately plan* to
> design after development begins.
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> Agile just acknowledges that sometimes circumstances require a solution to
> return to an earlier stage and start again, e.g. because of technological
> developments, changes in the market, new client requirements, or changes to
> legislation that make the current design or solution infeasible.
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> I can't see a reason why a useability test could not be designed before
> development begins... if the solution's design is thorough.
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> I think the useability test could be created during design. Designing
> anything during development (apart from user documentation, perhaps) does
> not seem right to me.
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> But then again determining evaluation criteria during design never felt
> right either, but that's a different story.
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> Mark
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