The two assessment objectives in Information and Communication Technology are:
A Practical Skills
B Knowledge and understanding
A description of each assessment objective follows.
A - PRACTICAL SKILLS
Students should be able to:
- use e-mail and the Internet to gather and communicate information;
- use word processing facilities to prepare documents;
- use database facilities to manipulate data to solve problems and represent data graphically;
- integrate data from different sources into a single document or report;
- produce output in a specified format;
- use a spreadsheet to create and test a data model, extracting and summarising data;
- represent data as information in a variety of chart formats;
- create a structured website with style sheets, tables and hyperlinks;
- create and control an interactive presentation.
B-KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in relation to:
- the functions of the main hardware and software components of computer systems;
- the networking of information-processing systems;
- the ways in which information and communication technology is used and the effects of its use;
- the stages and methods of system analysis and design;
- computing terminology.
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