003006/SBA/2013-1 MAY/JUNE 2013

C A R I B B E A N E X A M I N A T I O N S C O U N C I L

SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION


INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(General Proficiency)


Paper 03 School-Based Assessment


PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENTS
Word processing
Spreadsheet
Database Management
Programming
































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DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
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You are the Information Technology (IT) teacher of students from three lower sixth forms at
Possibility High School. Your school is co-educational.


There are fifteen students doing Information Technology. Each student has a course work score,
and another score for examinations done at the end of the term. From these scores, the overall
score for the term is computed.


It is customary for the parents/guardians to come in and meet with the teachers to review their
child/wards performance and as such there is a fair amount of planning and preparation
necessary. Consequently, the following tasks should be executed:


1.


2.
3.
4.


all student information should be transferred from the paper-based teacher register to an
electronic grade book;
the course work score and the overall score for each student are to be computed
letters of invitation to attend a Review Meeting should be sent to parents/guardians;
a final report is to be submitted to the Department Head indicating the performance of the
students and also the outcome of the review meeting with parents/guardians.


It is important that you clearly document any assumptions and other
modifications and submit these with your printouts. These should be on a
separate sheet titled ASSUMPTIONS and should follow your Table of
Contents.


The candidates attention is drawn to the fact that marks will be allocated to communicating
information in a logical way using correct grammar.























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Task A
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WORD PROCESSING
Letters of invitation should be sent to parents/guardians to attend meeting to discuss their
child/wards progress. These letters will only be sent to persons who have scored less than 80%
overall. The review meetings will be held over two days April 4 5, 2013 based on the
following schedule:
Monday, April 4, 2013 Students with last name from A M
Tuesday, April 5, 2013 Students with last name from N - Z
The morning session commences at 9 am and goes until noon. The afternoon session is from 1
pm to 2:30 pm.


You are required to:

(i)














(ii)

Prepare a letter (to be mail merged) to parents/guardians requesting their
attendance at the meeting. The letter should:
i. be sent on official school stationery and should be under the signature of
the Principal, Mrs. Averil Heights;
ii. include the deadline for response which is March 31, 2013;
iii. include a list of the eight subjects, the subject teachers, and the assigned
rooms to facilitate the free flow of parents throughout the day;
iv. be well formatted and free of spelling and grammatical errors.
Perform a mail merge using the data contained in the query MAILING_LIST .





B.


Print the primary document, data source and the FIRST and LAST merged letters only.

After the meeting, you need to submit a memorandum to your Department Head, giving
an analysis of students performance, and reporting on the outcome of the review meeting
with parents/guardians. This report should be no longer than two pages and free of
spelling and grammatical errors. Use appropriately the basic features provided by the
word processing package to enhance the quality of the document.


The report should have TWO clearly identified sections STUDENT PERFORMANCE
and REVIEW MEETING. You are expected to report on the highlights of these areas,


Item ID: MOEYC-JM20131 Rev 2


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taking care to emphasise any situation that is outside of the norm. Additionally, you
MUST include:
a) a report produced by the electronic grade book that is kept using the database
management software;
b) a chart produced in the spreadsheet component of the assignment.


Both these imported files (report and chart) should be placed in appropriate locations near
relevant text in your document.


Print the memorandum.
























































































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SPREADSHEET
Each students assessment for the term is comprised of multiple tests, a project and an end of
term exam. The tests and the project are averaged to give a course work score. All items of
assessment are score out of 100.

Your Head of Department wants you to use one or more worksheets to compute the student's
course work score, overall score and the associated letter grade.


The overall score is computed using a weighted average system which is subject to change. The
weightings and grade tables are as follow:
Assessment Type
Course Work
Exam
Weighting
45%
55%
Final Score
>= 80 %
60 79 %
50 59 %
40 49 %
< 40 %
Grade
A
B
C
D
E


Each students data should contain five scores, inclusive of the score for the exam. One in every
four students gained an A. The table below shows the assessments given for the Easter Term.

Test #1 Test #2 Test #2 Project Exam





Task A
(i)


(ii)
Create a spreadsheet initially using the guidelines given above, taking care to
include the students name and ID number as appropriate.
Insert a column in an appropriate position and compute the course work score
which is the average of all the non-exam components.
(iii) In a new column, compute the overall score for each student based on the
weightings indicated above.
(iv) Numeric values should be displayed in appropriate formats, with % signs where
appropriate and a suitable number of decimal places.
Print this worksheet. Include other printouts showing ALL formulae used.









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TASK B
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In another area of the worksheet, extract the students name, ID number, course work and exam
scores.
(i)


(ii)
Calculate an average score for course work and exam scores. Place these calculations
3 rows below the last student. Label the row.
Trudy, the sister of the student in row 3, joined the class late in the term and as such
only completed the project and the final examination. She scored full marks for the
project and 64% in the examination. Insert this data in the appropriate location.
Add a column in an appropriate area of the spreadsheet showing the correct Grade
of each student. Use the lookup function to find the Grade for each student average.
(iii) Sort the data in ascending sequence by last name and first name.
(iv) The administration decided at the last minute to make the weighting of both
assessment components equal. Adjust EACH students scores accordingly.


Print this worksheet and the associated formulae used.


Task C

(i)


(ii)

Use a complex criterion to find ALL students who scored an A on both components
course work and exam. Print the data range, criteria range and extracted results.
Produce a 3-D column chart comparing the exam scores of ALL students. Use
appropriate labelling for title and axes, and include a legend.
Print the chart.
















































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DATABASE MANAGEMENT

You are required to analyse the results and prepare various reports in preparation for the Review
Meeting. Existing data from the worksheets created in the spreadsheet application will be
utilised. Additionally, data produced as a result of queries will be used as a data source for mail
merging invitations to parents.


TASK A

(i)




















(ii)

Create and populate the table based on the details presented below

TABLE: STUDENT
The field names are:
StuID, LastName, FirstName, DOB, Gender, Form
The ID, first name and last name should be imported from the worksheet created
earlier.
The StuID is the primary key, which is assigned to EACH record.
DOB: Students in lower sixth form were born between April 1, 1987 and August
31, 1988
Form contains the class group to which the student is assigned. A student can be
in L6ART, L6BUS OR L6SCI
Create and populate the table based on the details presented below
TABLE: PARENT
The field names are:
Title, LastName, FirstName, Street_Address, Postal_Code, Parish, Relationship,
StuID
StuID: the ID number of the student
Relationship: MO Mother, FA- Father, GU Guardian

(iii) Create and populate the table based on the details presented below


TABLE: SCORES

The field names are:
StuID, Course_Work, Exam, Comment







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StuID, Course_Work and Exam should be imported from the worksheet created in
Task B of the spreadsheet component of this project.
Comment: An explicit comment by the teacher in relation to the students grade.
For example: Tardi Simpsons course work grade is missing as she was absent
because of illness.
(iv) Establish relationships among all the tables.


You are required to submit:
(a)
(b)
(c)



TASK B
a description of EACH table structure
a printout of the relationships
a printout of the data contained in EACH table
Perform queries to:

(i) Create a calculated field to compute the overall score based on the formula:
Overall_Score = Course_Work + (Final * 0.5)
Name this query OVERALL_SCORE.
(ii) List ALL students who have scored 79% or less in either the course work or the
examination. Name this query MAILING_LIST.
(iii) List ALL female students along with their scores. Query should include all fields
necessary for the production of the report in Task C (iii). Name the query
SCORES.
You are required to submit:
(a)
(b)
a printout of the query results
a printout of the SQL statements
For EACH of these queries, the associated SQL statements must be printed
and should form a part of the submission.




















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TASK C
Prepare a report:
MAY/JUNE 2013
(i)







(ii)
List ALL students who have scored 79% or less in either the course work or
examination The report should include the students first and last names, overall
score, parents first name, last name and address. The results should be sorted by
last name.

Produce a report which shows the names all students, grouped by form, and sorted
in descending sequence by average score and give the overall average of the Easter
Terms work. Give a title Student Performance by Form on line 1 and For the Easter Term,
2013 on line 2.

(iii) Export the report Student Performance by form Easter 2013 to the word processor.


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PROBLEM SOLVING AND PROGRAMMING

Problem Solving
1. Develop an algorithm or write Pseudocode that accepts as input the names of the students,
course work score and exam score for a unspecified number of students who have taken a subject at
Possibility High School. The algorithm should determine the overall score each student obtains
which is computing as weighting average system as shown in the spreadsheet. The program should
count the number of students and determine the final grade as shown in the spreadsheet.
The algorithm should then display a listing of all the students whose final grade is A along
with the total number of students and the average score for the group of students.
2. Design and execute a trace table (using data from spreadsheet) that accepts the course work
and exam score of a set of students. The final grade should be determine along with number of
students and the average score for the group of students

Program Implementation
3. Using the programming language Pascal, write program code to implement the algorithm in (1) above.









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