003006/SBA/2013-1

MAY/JUNE 2013

CARIBBEAN

EXAMINATIONS

COUNCIL

SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (General Proficiency) Paper 03 School-Based Assessment

PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENTS Word processing Spreadsheet Database Management Programming

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-2DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT You are the Information Technology (IT) teacher of students from three lower sixth forms at Possibility High School. Your school is co-educational.

There are fifteen students doing Information Technology. Each student has a course work score, and another score for examinations done at the end of the term. From these scores, the overall score for the term is computed.

It is customary for the parents/guardians to come in and meet with the teachers to review their child/wards performance and as such there is a fair amount of planning and preparation necessary. Consequently, the following tasks should be executed: 1.
2. 3. 4.

all student information should be transferred from the paper-based teacher register to an electronic grade book; the course work score and the overall score for each student are to be computed letters of invitation to attend a Review Meeting should be sent to parents/guardians; a final report is to be submitted to the Department Head indicating the performance of the students and also the outcome of the review meeting with parents/guardians.

It is important that you clearly document any assumptions and other modifications and submit these with your printouts. These should be on a separate sheet titled ASSUMPTIONS and should follow your Table of Contents. The candidates attention is drawn to the fact that marks will be allocated to communicating information in a logical way using correct grammar.

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-3WORD PROCESSING Task A Letters of invitation should be sent to parents/guardians to attend meeting to discuss their
child/wards progress. These letters will only be sent to persons who have scored less than 80%

overall. The review meetings will be held over two days April 4 5, 2013 based on the following schedule: Monday, April 4, 2013 Students with last name from A M Tuesday, April 5, 2013 Students with last name from N - Z The morning session commences at 9 am and goes until noon. The afternoon session is from 1 pm to 2:30 pm. You are required to: (i) Prepare a letter (to be mail merged) to parents/guardians requesting their attendance at the meeting. The letter should:
i. be sent on official school stationery and should be under the signature of

the Principal, Mrs. Averil Heights; ii. include the deadline for response which is March 31, 2013; iii. include a list of the eight subjects, the subject teachers, and the assigned rooms to facilitate the free flow of parents throughout the day; iv. be well formatted and free of spelling and grammatical errors. (ii) Perform a mail merge using the data contained in the query MAILING_LIST .

Print the primary document, data source and the FIRST and LAST merged letters only. B. After the meeting, you need to submit a memorandum to your Department Head, giving an analysis of students performance, and reporting on the outcome of the review meeting with parents/guardians. This report should be no longer than two pages and free of spelling and grammatical errors. Use appropriately the basic features provided by the word processing package to enhance the quality of the document. The report should have TWO clearly identified sections STUDENT PERFORMANCE and REVIEW MEETING. You are expected to report on the highlights of these areas,

Item ID: MOEYC-JM20131 Rev 2

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-4taking care to emphasise any situation that is outside of the norm. Additionally, you MUST include:
a) a report produced by the electronic grade book that is kept using the database

management software; b) a chart produced in the spreadsheet component of the assignment.

Both these imported files (report and chart) should be placed in appropriate locations near

relevant text in your document.

Print the memorandum.

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-5SPREADSHEET Each students assessment for the term is comprised of multiple tests, a project and an end of
term exam. The tests and the project are averaged to give a course work score. All items of

assessment are score out of 100. Your Head of Department wants you to use one or more worksheets to compute the student's course work score, overall score and the associated letter grade. The overall score is computed using a weighted average system which is subject to change. The weightings and grade tables are as follow:
Assessment Type Course Work Exam Weighting 45% 55% Final Score >= 80 % 60 79 % 50 59 % 40 49 % < 40 % Grade A B C D E

Each students data should contain five scores, inclusive of the score for the exam. One in every four students gained an A. The table below shows the assessments given for the Easter Term.
Test #1 Test #2 Test #2 Project Exam

Task A
(i) (ii) Create a spreadsheet initially using the guidelines given above, taking care to include the students name and ID number as appropriate. Insert a column in an appropriate position and compute the course work score which is the average of all the non-exam components. (iii) In a new column, compute the overall score for each student based on the weightings indicated above. (iv) Numeric values should be displayed in appropriate formats, with % signs where appropriate and a suitable number of decimal places. Print this worksheet. Include other printouts showing ALL formulae used.

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-6TASK B In another area of the worksheet, extract the students name, ID number, course work and exam scores. (i) Calculate an average score for course work and exam scores. Place these calculations 3 rows below the last student. Label the row. (ii) Trudy, the sister of the student in row 3, joined the class late in the term and as such only completed the project and the final examination. She scored full marks for the project and 64% in the examination. Insert this data in the appropriate location. Add a column in an appropriate area of the spreadsheet showing the correct Grade of each student. Use the lookup function to find the Grade for each student average. (iii) (iv) Sort the data in ascending sequence by last name and first name. The administration decided at the last minute to make the weighting of both assessment components equal. Adjust EACH students scores accordingly. Print this worksheet and the associated formulae used.

Task C
(i) Use a complex criterion to find ALL students who scored an A on both components course work and exam. Print the data range, criteria range and extracted results. (ii) Produce a 3-D column chart comparing the exam scores of ALL students. Use appropriate labelling for title and axes, and include a legend. Print the chart.

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-7DATABASE MANAGEMENT You are required to analyse the results and prepare various reports in preparation for the Review
Meeting. Existing data from the worksheets created in the spreadsheet application will be utilised. Additionally, data produced as a result of queries will be used as a data source for mail

merging invitations to parents. TASK A (i) Create and populate the table based on the details presented below TABLE: STUDENT The field names are: StuID, LastName, FirstName, DOB, Gender, Form The ID, first name and last name should be imported from the worksheet created earlier. The StuID is the primary key, which is assigned to EACH record. DOB: Students in lower sixth form were born between April 1, 1987 and August 31, 1988 Form contains the class group to which the student is assigned. A student can be in L6ART, L6BUS OR L6SCI (ii) Create and populate the table based on the details presented below TABLE: PARENT The field names are: Title, LastName, FirstName, Street_Address, Postal_Code, Parish, Relationship, StuID StuID: the ID number of the student Relationship: MO Mother, FA- Father, GU Guardian (iii) Create and populate the table based on the details presented below TABLE: SCORES The field names are: StuID, Course_Work, Exam, Comment

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-8StuID, Course_Work and Exam should be imported from the worksheet created in Task B of the spreadsheet component of this project. Comment: An explicit comment by the teacher in relation to the students grade. For example: Tardi Simpsons course work grade is missing as she was absent because of illness. (iv) Establish relationships among all the tables.

You are required to submit: (a) (b) (c) a description of EACH table structure a printout of the relationships a printout of the data contained in EACH table

TASK B Perform queries to: (i) Create a calculated field to compute the overall score based on the formula: Overall_Score = Course_Work + (Final * 0.5) Name this query OVERALL_SCORE. (ii) List ALL students who have scored 79% or less in either the course work or the examination. Name this query MAILING_LIST. (iii) List ALL female students along with their scores. Query should include all fields necessary for the production of the report in Task C (iii). Name the query SCORES. You are required to submit: (a) (b) a printout of the query results a printout of the SQL statements

For EACH of these queries, the associated SQL statements must be printed and should form a part of the submission.

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TASK C Prepare a report: (i)

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List ALL students who have scored 79% or less in either the course work or examination The report should include the students first and last names, overall score, parents first name, last name and address. The results should be sorted by last name.

(ii)

Produce a report which shows the names all students, grouped by form, and sorted in descending sequence by average score and give the overall average of the Easter Terms work. Give a title Student Performance by Form on line 1 and For the Easter Term, 2013 on line 2.

(iii)

Export the report Student Performance by form Easter 2013 to the word processor.

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PROBLEM SOLVING AND PROGRAMMING

Problem Solving 1. Develop an algorithm or write Pseudocode that accepts as input the names of the students, course work score and exam score for a unspecified number of students who have taken a subject at Possibility High School. The algorithm should determine the overall score each student obtains which is computing as weighting average system as shown in the spreadsheet. The program should count the number of students and determine the final grade as shown in the spreadsheet. The algorithm should then display a listing of all the students whose final grade is A along with the total number of students and the average score for the group of students. 2. Design and execute a trace table (using data from spreadsheet) that accepts the course work and exam score of a set of students. The final grade should be determine along with number of students and the average score for the group of students

Program Implementation 3. Using the programming language Pascal, write program code to implement the algorithm in (1) above.

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