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Title: COMPUTER SKILLS ASSESSMENT YEAR 6


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Computer Skills Assessment Year 6
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  • FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
  • Why assess students computer skills?
  • What skills are being assessed?
  • How are the skills assessed?
  • Why a pencil-and-paper test?
  • How are different platforms and applications
    being catered for?
  • How are questions developed?
  • Where can we get further information on this
    assessment?
  • What is happening in 2003?
  • What follow-up support can schools expect to
    receive?
  • What links will there be between primary and
    high schools in regard to the
  • Computer Skills Assessment?

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Why assess students computer skills?
The effective use of computer technology in our
classrooms is an important new aspect of the
education of our students. Students skills need
to be identified and evaluated, with the results
of the assessment informing future teaching and
learning programs to the benefit of all. The NSW
Government has thus introduced the statewide
external Computing Skills Assessment for all Year
6 and Year 10 students to determine their
knowledge, ability and understanding to use
information and communications technology (ICT).
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What skills are being assessed?
  • general computer concepts
  • word processing
  • graphics
  • multimedia
  • Internet
  • email
  • spreadsheet
  • database

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The following slides show examples of syllabus
outcomes, indicators and related computer skills
and knowledge.
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Computer operations
ENGLISH Learning to Write - Skills and
Strategies OUTCOME W S2.12 Uses joined letters
when writing in NSW Foundation Style and
demonstrates basic desktop publishing skills on
the computer
  • INDICATOR
  • carries out basic functions e.g. prints, saves to
    correct place and retrieves a text

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Word Processing
  • ENGLISH Learning to Write - Skills and
    Strategies
  • OUTCOME
  • W S3.12 Produces texts in a fluent and legible
    style and uses computer technology to present
    these effectively in a variety of ways
  • INDICATOR
  • uses computer software programs to format a
    variety of texts

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Graphics
  • ENGLISH Learning to Write - Skills and
    Strategies
  • OUTCOME
  • W S2.12 Uses joined letters when writing in NSW
    Foundation Style and demonstrates basic desktop
    publishing skills on the computer
  • INDICATOR
  • chooses appropriate graphics to accompany text

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Internet
HSIE Change and Continuity Significant Events
and People OUTCOME CC S3.1 Explains the
significance of particular people, groups,
places, actions and events in the past in
developing Australian identities and heritage
  • INDICATOR
  • Critically investigate the contributions of
    events and people of significance to Australian
    heritage using a variety of primary and secondary
    sources such as Internet sites
  • RELATED COMPUTER SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
  • understands and uses key words in a simple
    search
  • understands structure of a web address

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Email
  • Science and Technology Information and
    Communication
  • OUTCOME
  • IC S3.2 Creates and evaluates information
    products and processes, demonstrating
    consideration of the type of media, form,
    audience and ethical issues
  • INDICATOR
  • Writes and sends an email with an attachment to
    an expert seeking advice and information for a
    task
  • RELATED COMPUTER SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
  • understands features of an email message
  • understands structure of an email address

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Database
  • Science and Technology Living Things
  • OUTCOME
  • LT S2.3 Identifies and describes the structure
    and function of living things and ways in which
    living things interact with other living things
    and their environment.
  • INDICATOR
  • Designs, makes and uses a database to record
    information on selected flora and fauna
  • RELATED COMPUTER SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
  • understands purpose of a database
  • locates specific information in a class-created
    database
  • understands basic terminology fields, records,
    files

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Spreadsheet
  • PDHPE Problem Solving
  • OUTCOME
  • PS S3.5 Suggests, considers and selects
    appropriate alternatives when resolving problems
  • INDICATOR
  • surveys students and teachers to develop a
    healthy canteen menu and analyses results using
    a spreadsheet
  • RELATED COMPUTER SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
  • interprets data from a simple existing
    spreadsheet
  • understands cell addressing
  • enters data in a cell

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How will the skills be assessed?
There will be an assessment by pencil-and-paper
of computer knowledge and understandings. There
will be practical performance tasks to
assesscomputer skills delivered initially by
CD-ROM and in the future online. Schools will
have an extended period of time to administer
these to students. The skills tested will be
based on computer skills that can be developed
through teaching/learning activities in the six
K.L.A.s
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Why a pencil-and-paper test?
In order to assess a wide variety of computer
skills quickly and effectively, there will be a
pencil-and-paper component to the assessment.
Future plans will see the practical,
electronically-delivered component
broadened. Pencil-and-paper tests are used for a
variety of purposes including the diagnosis of
special strengths and weaknesses and the
evaluation of mastery of skills. A variety of
answer formats can be used. Such tests address
outcomes and have a clear focus.. They are
thoroughly planned to be fair, valid and
reliable. They contain questions at different
levels of difficulty, ordered so that students
can demonstrate what they know. Questions use
accessible language and are set in contexts that
are accessible to students of different gender
and cultural backgrounds.
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How are questions developed?
Teachers with expertise in integrating technology
in the classroom, attend an item-writing
workshop. If interested, they can then be
contracted to write and submit questions. Question
s are reviewed by panels consisting of
representatives from ESL, Aboriginal,
multicultural, technical, curriculum and
classroom perspectives.
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How are different platforms and applications
being catered for?
In both components of the assessment, generic
screens and icons are being used. These are based
on elements of both Mac and PC features so that
they are understood by students regardless of the
platform they use.
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What is happening in 2003?
The pencil-and-paper component of the assessment
will be held statewide. The proposed date is in
May. The practical component will again be run
in pilot form in 2003.
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What follow-up support can schools expect to
receive?
  • Twenty Consultants have been employed. Each
    consultant works
  • across two districts. These positions will
    assist in the implementation of the
  • Computer Skills Assessment program. Their roll
    includes
  • supporting schools through the pencil-paper test
    and practical tasks
  • assisting primary and secondary schools in
    analysing results of CSA
  • assisting with whole school planning for
    embedding computer-based technologies into the
    learning programs
  • conducting training and development activities
    for teachers to support the inclusion of
    computer-based technologies into all aspects of
    the curriculum
  • providing classroom support for teachers through
    modelling explicit teaching of computer skills

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What links will there be between primary and high
schools in regard to the CSA?
A sample of schools sat the Year 6 and Year 10
test in order to see which skills are appropriate
for assessment at each level. DET and the Board
of Studies collaborate closely as the assessments
are being developed. CSA consultants are working
in both primary and secondary schools,
particularly with Stage 3 and 4 students.
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Where can we get further information on this
assessment?
  • Each school was sent an information brochure.
  • On the DET Intranet is a copy of the brochure
    and a
  • powerpoint presentation.
  • Each school is being sent a copy of the 2002
    pilot paper
  • and practical CD-ROM.
  • The Computer Skills Assessment Consultant can
    advise.
  • Contact the Student Assessment and Reporting
    Unit.

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A brochure regarding the Year 6 assessment
program has been sent to all primary and central
schools. For any questions regarding the program
please contact Annette Wright 9707
6283 Christina Maxymenko 9707 6285 Ilham Ayoub
9707 6284 Fax 9707
6287 Email Annette.Wright2_at_det.nsw.edu.au
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