[Year 12 SofDev] query about study design

Sat Sep 21 06:48:37 UTC 2019

Sorry David, I assumed you were wanting help with Criteria 7 and 8.

" Identifies a comprehensive, systematic and logical plan for organising
files or data to allow efficient and secure access."

This is an assessment of how the student has organised their data. If in
records, has the data been efficiently organised into fields for effective
use? If in text files or CSV files or XML files, have they come up with the
most effective access. Are there security issues?

Examples of poor planning:
I have had students who did a great job ensuring all data entry through the
software was thoroughly validated and was passed to a secure (password
locked) Access database for storage. However, he decided to display his
data as a direct table in the software where the end user could easily edit
it without any validation. I had one student who did a poor job of
organising his data into arrays and storing them in text files with no
security. One student made a fantastic transactional processing system but
put "customer name" as a single field in his XML records which limits the
effectiveness of his organisation of data.

It comes down to how you assess their decisions in organising their data
into data structures: arrays, records, hash tables - then how are they
accessed, then is the data secure. A good approach to developing secure
access is to have different levels of permissions built into the software -
that limit access to data for different users.

Hope that answers your question.

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On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 at 16:22, David B Thomas <david.b.thomas at rmit.edu.au>
wrote:

> Thank you very much for your responses but my question revolved around SAT
> criteria 6.1 which says:
>
> Identifies a comprehensive, systematic and logical plan for organising
> files or data to allow efficient and secure access.
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> I guess that I expected to see some other student delivery describing the
> data structures and files that there are utilizing in their code.
> Presumably those structures are part of the code and can be determined from
> there.
>
> d.
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> *From:* sofdev <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> *On Behalf Of *Victoria
> Farrell
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> Hi David,
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> I have an Evaluation Outline (attached) if that can help you at all. I
> asked the students to organise their evaluation reports accordingly - so it
> makes it easy to mark with the rubrics.
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> If you are struggling with this subject - my textbook will be very helpful
> for the 2020 Study Design. It includes all the assessment outlines as well
> as marking schemes. The whole book is designed for novice teachers in this
> subject - because we all were one once!
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> I have had a number of requests to print - which I was trying to avoid -
> but if I get enough requests I might do a short run. (Sorry Adrian 👩).
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> Have a good one,
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> Vic
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> On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 22:24, David B Thomas <david.b.thomas at rmit.edu.au>
> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Is someone able to please explain why the study design just says the
> following:
>
>
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> A software solution that meets the software requirements
>
> specification and the results of the useability test
>
> AND
>
> An assessment of the extent to which the project plan (Gantt chart)
>
> assisted in monitoring project progress in one of the following:
>
> • a written report
>
> • an annotated visual plan.
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> When in fact there are other assessable things that relate to the criteria
> 5 – 8 rubrics, such as a description of how files are managed within the
> software solution. The assessment of the project plan is specifically
> mentioned though.
>
> David.
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> David.b.thomas at rmit.edu.au
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