Data and Information
Turning raw data into information, and keeping it accurate, private and useful.
- Data, information and knowledge
- Collecting and validating data
- Spreadsheet modelling
NSW Information and Software Technology Years 7-10 (Stage 5, Year 9) - data and information, digital media and software, networks and the internet - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Information and Software Technology Year 9” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Turning raw data into information, and keeping it accurate, private and useful.
Making digital products: media elements, interfaces and the code behind them.
How data travels, what can go wrong, and how it is protected.
A Information and Software Technology Year 9 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–5 |
| describe | Short answer | 2–3 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 4–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| select | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.