[Year 12 SofDev] practice exams

[Mark]

Hi Andrew

Teh study design seems to be deliberately getting more and more vague (or
should I say "less prescriptive"?) as time goes on.

While it does not enumerate as many mandated "including" topics, it does
leave teh gate open for many valid interpretations of KK.

I have always considered boundary conditions to be a key factor in testing,
since so many exam questions have focused on teh difference between < > and
<= and >=.

If teh design does not mention a term, it cannot be explicitly examined.
However students can use teh term or concept (where relevant. e.g.
"CamelCase") in their answers and earn marks.

Regards,
Mark


And speaking of ants, here's some holiday frivolity.

Apparently many of you guys have these "holidays".
Spare a charitable thought for us retired folk who NEVER get to have a day
off.
It's just day in, day out relaxing and walking on the beach, and doing
whatever we want when we want.
When will this hell EVER end?



​

On 22 September 2016 at 17:31, Andrew Shortell <shortell at get2me.net> wrote:

> hi all
> I am enjoying my break from classes unlike some of my students who are
> actually practising for the exams (not all)
> While I was outside fencing (no I was not counting cows correctly OR
> accurately just bloddy rabbits and rabbit holes and ant nests) i was
> thinking about work things.
>
> In teh Janson practice exam 1 there is
>
> c 11 a   What is boundary value analysis
> I deduce that it is testing  just outside the boundary and if < then on
> teh boundary and if <= then one above the boundary?
>
> I went looking through the study design last night and the term Boundary
> value is not explicitly mentioned (as far as I found …. )
> of course my better students complained that I had not taught them about it
>
> that led me to think about test table values - how precisely on teh
> boundary do they need to be in the exam?
> when is close enough good enough? etc…
>
> Any advice?
>
>
> Andrew
>
> Andrew Shortell
> Educator
> CRC Melton
>
>
> shortell at get2me.net (This List)
> @acsbear8 (twitter)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> http://www.edulists.com.au - FAQ, Subscribe, Unsubscribe
> IT Software Development Mailing List kindly supported by
> http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au - Victorian Curriculum and Assessment
> Authority and
> http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/infotech/softwaredevel3-4.html
> http://www.vitta.org.au  - VITTA Victorian Information Technology
> Teachers Association Inc
> http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ict/schools - Swinburne University
>



-- 

Mark Kelly

mark at vceit.com
http://vceit.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.edulists.com.au/pipermail/sofdev/attachments/20160922/b906390f/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 84681590.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 85534 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.edulists.com.au/pipermail/sofdev/attachments/20160922/b906390f/84681590-0001.jpg