[Year 12 SofDev] SAT Criteria 6 and 8 examples

Mon Sep 23 00:41:57 UTC 2019

Hi David/all,

For criteria 6 I gave the students a template to guide them which focuses on a number of things:
- Management of the data file/s used by the solution (backup, security, archiving, deployment) as well as the structure of the files.
- Transmission of data into/out of the system, protocols and security used for transmission
- Application security (authentication and user accounts and privileges)
- Malware protection

The "use of appropriate data structure" element of the criteria I marked from the code submitted.

My take on it was that criteria 6 was about the final solution as a product, not the project (security, organisation, backup of project files) though I know some schools interpret it that way.

For criteria 8 I gave them another template that draws in evaluation criteria from the SRS and lays out strategies for evaluating effectiveness and efficiency as well as detailing acceptance testing linked to functional and non-functional requirements.  The other half of the templates focusses on reflection on the project's success and value of the plan and evidence of monitoring via project logs and issue logs which were kept throughout the project.

The templates are guides but I encourage the students to use them to prompt their thinking - they can reformat or change if they want to.  It also makes it easier to mark!

I've attached the templates - fee free to use them or modify them.

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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>
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> Thank you very much for your responses but my question revolved around
> SAT criteria 6.1 which says:
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> 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.
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> d.
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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
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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
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> Hi,
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> 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
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> 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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