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Testing
Design and Technology language using the Internet. |
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School: Morriston Comprehensive
School, Swansea |
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Fellow: Dorian Caudy |
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Email: C4udy@aol.com |
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Aim |
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To develop an interactive website resource
that teachers could use to test Design and
Technology knowledge understanding and ultimately
capability during D&T lessons. |
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Description |
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The Internet is the fastest growing resource
widely accessible to all pupils. The Internet
holds much information which can be used for
research purposes, however there is little
which can be used to form a distance learning
lesson in design and technology. The University
of Victoria Language Centre, Canada has developed
a piece of software that can create interactive
tests which can be uploaded to a website and
form the basis of series of lessons in a particular
topic. Consequently, this fellowship is aimed
at developing suitable tests for improving
knowledge and understanding and ultimately
capability in Design and Technology, and will
also complement a current MA being studied.
The website will need a sponsor in the future
and therefore this will take up an amount
of time to locate said sponsor. Ultimately
the website will develop the language and
literacy skills of pupils as all of the tests
will need correct spelling to answer, combined
with the ability to recognise the vocabulary
being used in the written parts of the tests. |
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Outcomes of Fellowship |
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a research activity that
relates to the types of test teachers
would like to see being developed, and
subsequently use, e.g comprehension,
matching exercises, short answer tests,
multi choice, close activities, etc.
Combined with the focus areas. |
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research into the types of tests that
contribute best to the improvement of
knowledge, understanding and capability
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using the latest "Hot Potatoes"
software from The University of Victoria
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a specific teaching orientated website
to accommodating the tests, which can
be found here http://www.teachercentre.com/D&T/ |
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a dissertation for this study |
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Continuation |
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This site has been “under
construction” for two years and
with these added tests comes a glossary
of homework help tips in Design and
Technology. The concept behind this
development is to arrange in one central
area my own definitions of terms that
arise on the CORE exam paper at GCSE.
In this way my pupils have the opportunity
to take on research on line topics relating
to Design and Technology. The site is
listed in the SCHOOLS NET publication
circulated to schools and has at present
30,000 hits, approximately 600 per week. |
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Distance learning. In the coming
years as technology evolves and as organisations
develop more interactive and interesting
WebPages, learning design and technology
will become more of an enjoyment. The
research I have undertaken into this
field of D&T has taken me down the
road of studying how organisations set
up distance learning courses, and what
different learning techniques can be
accommodated therein. |
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Personal Outcomes |
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As a result of taking
up this fellowship I have become a moderator
for the WJEC, a NOF mentor for my school
with the local NOF provider, and indirectly
very involved in Robot Wars and Techno
Games. |
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I have also used ProDesktop files
on this site to illustrate the developments
of the Robot, which are also on the
schools website. Incidentally the robot
page of the schools website has had
75% of the total number of hits of the
schools website, illustrating the interest
in systems and control. |
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The number of pupils opting to study
Systems and Control GCSE has increased
by an additional 50% for the coming
year. |
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