Prelims November 13, 2006
Posted by Mark Tennant in : Computing, Subject Support , trackbackManaged to have a meeting on Friday with some other computing teachers to discuss the use and provision of commerical prelim papers. Only six of us were able to attend because of school commitments, but nevertheless I found it a very useful meeting. What we concluded from the recent Appeals results was:
- The perfect papers prelim did not seem to stand up well to SQA appeals procedure
- P&N was only used by one department, but seemed overall to do only slightly better.
- Both papers were deemed not to have enough ‘A descriminator’ questions.
- Perfect Papers did produce a much better Info Sys paper than last year
- Writing all our own papers would be desirable but would require an impossible time commitment - this is perhaps a Subject Support issue for next year.
Many thanks to all who participated. We agreed that if finances allow we would like to purchase both P&N and Perfect Papers and allow departments to make their own mind up about which to use, or indeed use the questions as a basis for writing their own prelim. Despite the misgivings about commercial papers that some people have, I am convinced that they offer a good standard often in excess of what a busy class teacher could write, giving pupils a similar standard paper to the exam and thus represent excellent value for money.
The Principal Assessors report from the SQA is available here.
Thanks again must also go to the Old Clubhouse, Gullane who reguarly host our meetings. 01620 842008.
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