Introduction This document contains instructions for teachers and lecturers, instructions for candidates and marking instructions for the Higher Computing Science assignment. You must read it in conjunction with the course specification. This assignment has 50 marks out of a total of 160 marks available for the course assessment. This is one of two course assessment components. The other component is a question paper. Instructions for teachers and lecturers This is a specimen assessment task. SQA publishes a new assessment task on the secure website each academic year. The task is valid for that year only. Once complete, you must send the assignment responses to SQA to be marked. You must conduct the assignment under a high degree of supervision and control. This means: candidates must be supervised throughout the session(s) candidates must not have access to e-mail or mobile phones candidates must complete their work independently — no group work is permitted candidates must not interact with each other with no interruption for targeted learning and teaching in a classroom environment Time Candidates have 8 hours to carry out the assignment, starting at an appropriate point in the course, after all content has been delivered. It is not anticipated that this is a continuous 8-hour session, although it can be, but conducted over several shorter sessions. This is at your discretion. You have a responsibility to manage candidates’ work, distributing it at the beginning and collecting it in at the end of each session, and storing it securely in between. This activity does not count towards the total time permitted for candidates to complete the assignment. Candidates are prompted to print their work at appropriate stages of the tasks. They can print on an ongoing basis or save their work and print it later. Whatever approach they take, time for printing is not part of the 8 hours permitted for the assignment.
Introduction This document contains instructions for teachers and lecturers, instructions for candidates and marking instructions for the Higher Computing Science assignment. You must read it in conjunction with the course specification. This assignment has 50 marks out of a total of 160 marks available for the course assessment. This is one of two course assessment components. The other component is a question paper. Instructions for teachers and lecturers This is a specimen assessment task. SQA publishes a new assessment task on the secure website each academic year. The task is valid for that year only. Once complete, you must send the assignment responses to SQA to be marked. You must conduct the assignment under a high degree of supervision and control. This means: candidates must be supervised throughout the session(s) candidates must not have access to e-mail or mobile phones candidates must complete their work independently — no group work is permitted candidates must not interact with each other with no interruption for targeted learning and teaching in a classroom environment Time Candidates have 8 hours to carry out the assignment, starting at an appropriate point in the course, after all content has been delivered. It is not anticipated that this is a continuous 8-hour session, although it can be, but conducted over several shorter sessions. This is at your discretion. You have a responsibility to manage candidates’ work, distributing it at the beginning and collecting it in at the end of each session, and storing it securely in between. This activity does not count towards the total time permitted for candidates to complete the assignment. Candidates are prompted to print their work at appropriate stages of the tasks. They can print on an ongoing basis or save their work and print it later. Whatever approach they take, time for printing is not part of the 8 hours permitted for the assignment.