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Category: Yacapaca
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Assessing Computer Science is a very different challenge from assessing ICT, so a different approach is needed. With ICT, there is standard content that we can expect all students to have covered. Computer Science is far more varied. For example, we can expect every student to have studied at least one programming language – but…
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There is solid research to show that students slip backwards over the summer. You didn’t need telling that, did you? It is a common experience that, come September, you are going to have to rehearse the learning from last year. I’d like to suggest a way that Yacapaca can reduce this problem, if not actually…
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Looks like people are getting survey fatigue: only 46 responses to this one. Still worthwhile, though. Who replied? This looks fairly representative of the population as a whole. What do they use Yacapaca for? My interest here was how plans are changing. Homework and revision are both on the way up, but I was surprised…
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This screenshot is me logging into Yacapaca on my phone. Don’t be fooled by the large image here: it’s just an ordinary smartphone (actually an LG Nexus 4); not even an iPhone. We redesigned the login fields so they actually grow larger as the screen grows smaller. You can see that here it almost…
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