Solution Development

Full notes coming soon — here's what the syllabus covers for now:

• e The following format could be used: Questions aligned to the Solution Development topic which assess the knowledge and understanding Assessment addresses the content as set out in this document. Due to the conceptual progression of the content underlying the concepts and skills in the Solution Development topic. across the grades, content and skills from Grades 10-12 will be assessed in the external papers at the end of integrated scenario (±40 marks) Grade 12. F This section is based on a single large-scale scenario and assess all the topics. A list of emerging technologies to be covered for examination purposes will be provided to schools each year by the end of the previous year. Recording is a process in which the teacher documents the level of a learner’s performance in a specific assessment task. It indicates learner progress towards the achievement of the knowledge as prescribed in the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements. Records of learner performance should provide evidence of the learner’s conceptual rating Code description of Competence Percentage 7 Outstanding achievement 80 - 100 6 Meritorious achievement 70 - 79 5 Substantial achievement 60 - 69 4 Adequate achievement 50 - 59 progression within a grade and her or his readiness to progress or be promoted to the next grade. Records of learner 3 Moderate achievement 40 - 49 2 Elementary achievement 30 - 39 1 Not achieved 0 - 29 Teachers will record actual marks against the task by using a record sheet; and report percentages against the subject on the learners’ report cards. Moderation refers to the process that ensures that the assessment tasks are fair, valid and reliable. Comprehensive performance should also be used to verify the progress made by teachers and learners in the teaching and learning and appropriate moderation practices must be in place for the quality assurance of all subject assessments. process. Reporting is a process of communicating learner performance to learners, parents, schools, and other stakeholders. Learner performance can be reported in a number of ways. These include report cards, parents’ meetings, school
• Grade 10 and 11 tests and examinations are internally moderated. The subject advisor must moderate a sample of these tasks during his/her school visits to verify the standard of tasks and the internal moderation.
• Grade 12 tests and examinations must be moderated at provincial level. This process will be managed by the provincial education department.
• Subject advisors must moderate samples of tests and examination papers before they are written by learners to verify standards and guide teachers on the setting of these tasks. visitations, parent-teacher conferences, phone calls, letters, class or school newsletters, etc. Teachers in all grades report in percentages against the subject. 7 levels of competence have been described for each subject listed for Grades R-12. The various achievement levels and their corresponding percentage bands are as shown in the table below: Codes and percentages for recording and reporting
• Grade 10 and 11: T eachers assess the practical assessment tasks in Grades 10 and 11. The subject advisor must moderate a sample of PATs during his/her school visits to verify the standard of tasks and the internal moderation
• Grade 12: T eachers assess the practical assessment tasks according to the externally set assessment tool. The subject advisor must moderate a sample of each phase of the PATs during his/her school visits to verify the interpretation of the assessment tool and the standard of marking. Completed PATs must also be moderated at Annexure A - Glossary of acronyms and abbreviations This document should be read in conjunction with: provincial level. This process will be managed by the provincial education department. Grades R-12; and ANNEXURE A Glossary of acronyms and abbreviations 1:m One-to-many 1-d One-dimensional 3G Third generation of cellular wireless 4G Fourth generation of cellular wireless adsl Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Bios Basic Input Output System CPu Central Processing Unit Css Cascading Style Sheets dBa Database Administrator dBms Database Management System edP Event Driven Programming erd Entity Relationship Diagrams Foss Free Open Source Software FtP File Transfer Protocol GiGo Garbage-In Garbage-Out GPs Global Positioning System Gui Graphical User Interface Han Home Area Network HCi Human Computer Interface Html Hypertext Markup Language HttP Hypertext Transfer Protocol HttPs Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure i/o Input-Output iCt Information and Communication Technology ide Integrated Development Environment iP Internet Protocol iPo Input-Processing-Output iPtV Internet Protocol Television it Information Technology JPeG Joint Photographic Experts Group lan Local Area Network mP3 MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 mPeG Motion Picture Expert Group niC Network Interface Card ooP Object-Oriented Programming os Operating System Pan Personal Area Network Pat Practical Assessment Task PC Personal Computer PHP Hypertext Preprocessor PnP Plug-and-Play Poa Programme of Assessment PoP3 Post Office Protocol Pos Point-of-Sale rad Rapid Application Development ram Random Access Memory rFid Radio-Frequency Identification rom Read-Only Memory rss Really Simple Syndication saas Software as a Service seo Search Engine Optimisation smtP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol sms Short Message System soHo Small Office Home Office sQl Structured Query Language ssl Secure Socket Layer toe Task-Objects-Events uml Unified Modelling Language url Uniform Resource Locater usB Universal Serial Bus VoiP Voice over Internet Protocol VPn Virtual Private Network W3C World Wide Web Consortium Wan Wide Area Network Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity WimaX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access WWW World Wide Web WysiWiG What You See Is What You Get Xml Extensible Markup Language