Privacy, security, professional responsibility and the technologies now entering information systems.
These are the statements the Information Processes and Technology syllabus makes about Social, Ethical and Emerging Issues. 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.
Access, equity, employment and the responsibility that accompanies holding data about people.
Current technologies entering information systems, and the problems they create as well as solve.
Threats, controls and the legal obligations attached to personal information.
Consent, retention and access, and what an organisation owes the people whose data it holds.
Standards of practice, attribution, and who is accountable when a system causes harm.
The gap between those with access to information systems and those without, and its consequences.
HSC Information Processes and Technology - Examination Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Social, Ethical and Emerging Issues 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 Processes and Technology 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.
Social, Ethical and Emerging Issues is module 4 of 4 in Information Processes and Technology. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Information Processes and Technology dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.