Case Study

4. What will be the nature of assessment?

During the period of the course,students will experience a wide range of tasks, including:

• Analysing and developing algorithms to solve problems

• Exploring computing concepts, system components and design using appropriate terminology

• End of topic tests (based on IB questions and marked according to IB standardised mark schemes)

• End of year and mock examinations (based on IB questions and marked according to IB standardised mark schemes)

• Practical problem solving and programming tasks that develop students ability to put computational thinking into practice

• Internal Assessment – students will complete a ‘solution’ in the form of a software development project. They will choose a client and define a real world problem that requires a software solution; a thorough process will then see them develop their proposals, software designs and computer code in order to provide the client with a solution. (20% of final grade)

At the end of the course, students will sit an examination consisting of three papers:

Paper 1 – 2hours,10minuteswrittenpaper,examiningthecoretopics(40%offinalgrade)

Paper 2 – 1 hour, 20 minutes written paper, examining the OOP component (20% of final grade)

Paper 3 – 1 hour written paper, examining the pre-seen case study component (20% of final grade)

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