Year 10 Parents’
Information Evening
I.C.T. Department
Mr C. H . Davies
Good News!
G.C.S.E. Examination Results for I.C.T. have
been on the ‘up and up’ in recent years (from
55% in 2005 to over 86%) and this summer’s
results beat all records with 92.5% of pupils
achieving a GCSE grade A*-C.
Over 35% of the pupils were awarded an A*
or A grade and half of the pupils beat their
target grades in ICT.
In particular this year, a number of pupils
with Special Education Needs performed
particularly well in ICT, some beating their
targets by 3 or 4 grades!
Controlled Assessment in ICT...
… consists of five assignments.
… makes up 60% of the final assessment
mark – probably the largest proportion
of any subject at GCSE level.
… is all completed and supervised in
school, in normal lesson time.
… mainly involves the use of software
applications, with which the pupils are
already familiar.
5 Controlled Assessment Tasks
Task Topic
No.
1
Database
Software
Application
Used
FileMaker Pro /
Microsoft
Access
No. of
marks
available
35
When?
by
October
half term
2
Spreadsheet
Microsoft
Excel
35
by
Christmas
3
Presentation
Microsoft
Powerpoint
30
February
half term
4
Web Design
Dreamweaver /
Serif Web Plus
40
End of
Year 10
5
Game Development
Scratch,
GameMaker
or similar
40
Start of
Year 11
Marking
Schemes …
… are very straightforward
… are not a secret!
… are shared with the pupils
… are annotated to help the
pupils achieve FULL marks if
they follow the guidelines!
Homework…
… is set regularly in line with school policy and may
consist of:
• working on a ‘sample’ assignment in preparation for
a controlled assignment.
• revision for class tests
• research of ICT developments / applications
• practice examination questions
• learning ICT terms, abbreviations and acronyms etc.
• student workbook tasks
Final Examination
In Year 11 – May / June 2013
With the new specification, there is just one
tier of entry (no Higher / Foundation as before).
There is just one 2 hour written examination
paper (not two as before)
Learning Resources
Pupils are advised to use a range of resources when
revising for internal and final examinations.
Good use can be made of various text books and revision
guide books, e.g. the CGP ICT Revision Guide and the
new Letts ICT Workbook. Pupils have access to these in
school and can purchase their own copies from school
(at a significant discount! - £3) if they wish.
While these guides are not tailored specifically to our
course, they provide very useful revision materials for all
the main theory topics.
Learning Support
We produce in-house revision materials which pupils find
particularly useful when preparing for mock and final
examinations.
We also make full use of past examination paper
questions to help pupils prepare for the written exams.
Increasingly, class teachers will use such questions as
homework exercises throughout the course.
Half-term or Easter Holiday sessions have been held in
recent years to support pupils who have fallen behind
with Controlled Assessment tasks or those who will
benefit from more intense preparation for the final
written examination.
On-line Resources
Pupils are also encouraged to use online resources for
personal study and revision.
Some good examples include:
www.ccea.org.uk/ict
www.teach-ict.com
www.bbc.co.uk/gcsebitesize/ict
www.ReviseICT.co.uk
www.ccea.org.uk/ict
www.bbc.co.uk/gcsebitesize/ict
www.reviseICT.co.uk
www.teach-ict.com