Tag: yacapaca

  • John Davies from Kings School in Gütersloh asked me today about the scoring for Checkbox questions. It’s not obvious because the colour-coding in the Detail markbook is simply red or green, leading one to assume that a question would score a simple 1 or 0. But not so. A Checkbox can return a partial mark.…

  • Neil Birkin from Frederick Gent school is our #14th-ranked author, and therefore a Bloke To Be Listened To. He wrote to me today and asked Both myself and the kids that I teach love

  • 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…

  • 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…