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Computing At School

I attended the second Computing At School (CAS) event on Saturday, which was held at the University of Glasgow. This year, unlike last year, I had the pleasure of not speaking. It’s great to attend events where the sole focus is teaching and learning. In my many conversations with the many educationalists who were there, the sole topic was how best to teach Computing. I attended all of the keynotes and many of the workshops. I particularly enjoyed the workshops…

PC Passport review

As you will know, PC Passport is currently being reviewed. This important development commenced earlier this year and has been progressing well. The Qualification Development Team has been working hard to revise the qualification. The draft qualification is pretty well developed and we are now at the stage of finalising the units. I met with the core development team earlier this week to look at the draft units to make final changes. The recent focus on digital literacy has had…

Support materials for the new HN awards

The new HN awards are the best supported Computing qualifications that SQA has ever produced. In fact, they may be the best supported qualifications of any kind that SQA has ever produced.There are Assessment Support Packs (ASPs), online assessments and e-learning material available to support the new awards. So far, 58 ASPs have been produced (and available) with another five on the way. These cover all of the mandatory units in all of the awards plus many of the optional…

Reviewing Computer Science

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I planned to review the new HND Computer Science. It’s not really a review. I plan to talk to a few people over the coming weeks about their opinions of the new award. The recently completed HN Review updated four awards, and created one new one – the HND Computer Science. Some of you will remember that it was originally intended to be a generic HND in Computing but during the development and…

Centre satisfaction survey

I opened this year’s centre satisfaction survey a few weeks ago and, so far, there has been a very low response. I use the survey to figure out what we’re doing right and what we’re doing wrong but a very low response means that I can’t really use the data for anything. So, please, if you haven’t done so already, can you spend a few minutes completing the online survey? The team started the survey in 2011 (when there was a…