Assessment Objectives (IGCSE ICT)

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:

1. use e-mail and the Internet to gather and communicate information;
2. use word processing facilities to prepare documents;
3. use database facilities to manipulate data to solve problems and represent data graphically;
4. integrate data from different sources into a single document or report;
5. produce output in a specified format;
6. use a spreadsheet to create and test a data model, extracting and summarising data;
7. represent data as information in a variety of chart formats;
8. create a structured website with style sheets, tables and hyperlinks;
9. create and control an interactive presentation.

B-KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

Students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in relation to:

1. the functions of the main hardware and software components of computer systems;
2. the networking of information-processing systems;
3. the ways in which information and communication technology is used and the effects of its use;
4. the stages and methods of system analysis and design;
5. computing terminology.