{"id":712,"date":"2009-03-25T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2009\/03\/25\/computing-for-change\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T18:40:00","slug":"computing-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/computing-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing for Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the second meeting of the Computing for Change group this afternoon. The meeting was held at Glasgow Metropolitan College.<\/p>\n<p>I updated people on the actions that the QST planned to carry out to review SQA units and assessments. Today&#8217;s meeting focussed more on the factors other than the curriculum such as teaching and learning, and support for Computing lecturers.<\/p>\n<p>A number of actions were agreed, including a comprehensive review of the statistics relating to student performance in HN Computing and related subjects.<\/p>\n<p>My major task is to look at specific units and assessments to see if there is a quick and simple way of reducing the assessment load on lecturers and students.<\/p>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:%20rdillin@stow.ac.uk\">Ron Dillin<\/a> if you want to know more about the work of this group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the second meeting of the Computing for Change group this afternoon. The meeting was held at Glasgow Metropolitan College. I updated people on the actions that the QST planned to carry out to review SQA units and assessments. Today&#8217;s meeting focussed more on the factors other than the curriculum such as teaching and learning, and support for Computing lecturers. A number of actions were agreed, including a comprehensive review of the statistics relating to student performance in HN&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\/712","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=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}