Turning raw data into information, and keeping it accurate, private and useful.
These are the statements the Information and Software Technology Year 9 syllabus makes about Data and Information. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Data, information and knowledge - Data and Information, Year 9.
Collecting and validating data - Data and Information, Year 9.
Spreadsheet modelling - Data and Information, Year 9.
Relational databases and keys - Data and Information, Year 9.
Queries and reports - Data and Information, Year 9.
Data visualisation - Data and Information, Year 9.
Privacy and the Privacy Act - Data and Information, Year 9.
Data quality and bias - Data and Information, Year 9.
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Data and Information are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Information and Software Technology Year 9 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Data and Information opens the Information and Software Technology Year 9 course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Information and Software Technology Year 9 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.