And you’re done (unless you’re doing Foundation). I hope the exams went well for all of you, and all of your students.
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VCAA Has Deloitte to Learn
Last year, as seemingly occurs every year, there were serious errors on the VCE mathematics exams. This was reported on at the time by the Age, on the basis of a teacher’s complaint and a comment on this blog. The errors were reported on again last month by the Herald Sun, on the basis of a parliamentary submission. I was pleased to see these reports although they were not my doing. I did not notify any reporters of the exam errors and no reporter had asked me for comment until after the recent Herald Sun and Guardian articles on this year’s General Mathematics exam errors.
As I routinely do, I quickly blogged on some (but not all) of the 2022 errors (here, here, here and here), but other than that I had been as quiet as possible about the whole thing, even on this blog. For a reason, and until now.
Open Letter to the Victorian Minister for Education
As I wrote about briefly, in December last year Burkard and I wrote a critique of the VCE mathematics exams, which was to form the basis of VCAA’s external review. As I’ve just written, here, dealing with VCAA was incredibly frustrating. More importantly, the overview VCAA released to us has entirely hidden the substance of the external review, and/but the review seems to be nothing more than distraction and whitewash. In particular, there still seems to be no clear appreciation within VCAA that mathematical truth is a thing, and that properly qualified mathematicians are by far the best judges of that thing.
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Secret 2023 Specialist Business: Exam 1 Discussion
Secret 2023 Methods Business: Exam 2 Discussion
When you’re ready.
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Quick Comments on the General Mathematics Exam Error
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Let’s try again:
Sparked by the report in the Herald-Sun, the matrix error (and the who cares “of-of” error) on the General Mathematics Exam 2 has obviously received a lot of attention. This has included apologies from VCAA, from the CEO of VCAA, and from the Minister of Education. It has also led to VCAA announcing that all students would receive the mark for the question.
We haven’t looked at the exam question (or the exam), and so know nothing of the question beyond what commenters have suggested. Even without knowing the details, however, there seem some obvious things to note, or at least they will be obvious for the regulars at this blog and for the similarly disenchanted.
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Secret 2023 Methods Business: Exam 1 Discussion
The usual. Go for it.
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Burkard’s and My VCE Mathematics Exam Critique
Burkard and I were planning this for later, but given the Guardian has named us and linked to the relevant document, I may as well post on it. Below is a critique of the 2022 VCE exams, which, after prior discussions, Burkard and I wrote at VCAA’s request. This critique was the basis (sort of) of VCAA’s external review of the VCE mathematics exams, which was finalised earlier this year.
I will soon have much more to write on the background to all this, and on VCAA’s external review.
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Secret 2023 Further-General Business: Exam 2 Discussion
Same as usual. Have fun.
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Secret 2023 Further-General Business: Exam 1 Discussion
The usual. We haven’t seen the exam, and we don’t much care to see it, but teachers and students are welcome to comment.
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