GCSE
The ICT GCSE courses build on the knowledge, understanding and skills students have established in Keystage 3. The syllabus encourages the investigation and study of ICT in a variety of contexts such as home, school, recreation, community and commercial. Candidates are given opportunities to acquire competence, capability and critical skills through the creation, implimentation, use and evaluation of a range of imformation systems.
At Blakeston we follow the AQA syllabus for ICT. The syllabus uses a range of assessment techniques to enable candidates to respond graphically and in writing through practical and investigative work. The completion of coursework is the key to success on this course and represents 60% of the final marks awarded. Students are expected to provide and model ICT solutions in real life situations. The challenges and problems students encounter will be diverse, but will reflect the use of application packages such as Wordprocessing, DTP, Spreadsheets and Database. The coursework element is made up from two separate parts the Board set assignment (BSA) worth 25% and the Project which is worth 35%. A final examination paper in Year 11 makes up the remaining 40% of the final mark.
Board set assignment (25%)
The board set assignment (BSA) will consist of a desrciption of a situation where ICT may be able to solve some problems. Candidates are required to produce a apiece of work which demonstrates their ability to analyse a problem and indentify a solution and the possible use of ICT. They design, implement, test and evaulate their solutions.
Project (35%)
Unlike the BSA candidates will identify both the senario and solution for the project. In a similar way to the BSA they will design, implement, test and evaulate their solutions.
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"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years." - John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)
"And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By "they" I mean "computers": I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)" -Dave Barry