Stage 2 Information Processing and Publications

Students apply practical skills and design principles to provide creative solutions to text-based communication tasks. They create both hard copy and electronic text-based publications, and evaluate the development process.

Students use technology to design and implement information processing solutions, and identify, choose, and use the appropriate computer hardware and software to process, manage and communicate information in a range of contexts.

CONCEPTS

Information Processing and Publishing is a 10 credit subject or a 20 credit subject at Stage 1. It consists of the following four focus areas:

·         Desktop Publishing

·         Electronic Publishing

·         Personal Documents

·         Business Documents.

The Design Process

Students are encouraged to adopt an enterprising approach to design. This involves developing innovative and creative design solutions that can be used to communicate information or develop promotional options for products and services.

The use of a four-part design process is recommended: investigating, devising, producing, and evaluating. The process is not necessarily linear, and students are evaluating and critiquing throughout.

·         Investigating the Processing or Publishing Task

·         Devising or Planning to Complete the Task

·         Producing the Task

·         Evaluating the Process and the Product

Assessment

School Assessment        (70%)

Assessment Type 1:       Practical Skills (40%) including:

·         at least five practical skills assessments

Assessment Type 2:       Issues Analysis (30%) including:

·         one or two issues analysis assessments and one technical and operational understanding assessment

External Assessment     (30%)

Assessment Type 3: Product and Documentation (30%)