{"id":636,"date":"2009-11-24T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2009\/11\/24\/meeting-with-hmie\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:23:00","slug":"meeting-with-hmie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/meeting-with-hmie\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting with HMIe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met with Iain Lowson, of HMIe, today. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss how SQA could respond to the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmie.gov.uk\/documents\/publication\/sbarco.pdf\">Aspect report<\/a> [PDF] on Computing within FE.<\/p>\n<p>I agreed to take forward two things as a result of the meeting: (1) advice to centres about the teaching of programming; and (2) advice to centres about the use of portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>Programming remains a problem in FE. Some centres use advanced languages to teach the principles of programming, such as C++, which the students find difficult to understand. So I agreed to look at how languages such as <a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\">Scratch <\/a>could be used within National Certificate (NC) programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The report also mentioned how assessment can sometimes drive learning. We discussed how portfolio building could be a more natural way of generating evidence of assessment, rather than several short assessments. I agreed to look at ways of using portfolios within the NC awards. Some kind of digital portfolio (using Web 2.0 tools or e-portfolio products) would be the focus of attention.<\/p>\n<p>If\/when I am given the green light to take forward these suggestions, I will ask for volunteers on the <a href=\"http:\/\/computing.groupsite.com\/main\/summary\">SQA Groupsite<\/a>, so don&#8217;t forget to subscribe.<\/p>\n<p>The Aspect report features prominently in next Friday&#8217;s (4 December) Heads of Computing event in Glasgow. There are still places available if you want to attend. You can register <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=iEG1EK4FMeuy7ToPY5CbLA_3d_3d\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met with Iain Lowson, of HMIe, today. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss how SQA could respond to the recent Aspect report [PDF] on Computing within FE. I agreed to take forward two things as a result of the meeting: (1) advice to centres about the teaching of programming; and (2) advice to centres about the use of portfolios. Programming remains a problem in FE. Some centres use advanced languages to teach the principles of programming, such&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}