Luckily we enjoy a fair degree of freedom, as long as we can reach the competence aims in the national curriculum.
Tore > 18. jun. 2016 kl. 20.03 skrev Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>: > > I only wish I could persuade the Ministry of Education of that in Bulgaria > (here schools have almost no individual curricular control). > > Very good news indeed: Bravo! > > Richmond Mathewson. > > On 18.06.2016 20:17, Tore Nilsen wrote: >> The results from national and local exams in the subject “Information >> technology” in Norwegian Upper Secondary schools are now in. I am happy to >> say that my students scored well in their exams, with an average of 4.4 out >> of 6 for all students who had to either sit through the national written >> exam or the local oral/practical exam assessed by external teacher. >> >> 60% of the students scored 5 or better, which puts them at the top of the >> scale. Compared to last years national results, the overall average would >> put our school at a fine top 6 spot nationally. With a top 5 spot for the >> national written exam and a top 6 spot for the oral/practical exam. >> >> These results are unprecedented at our school, and in my opinion, very much >> a result of our choice to use LiveCode as our programming environment. > > The next sentence says exactly what is so good about Livecode from a > pedagogical point of view. > >> Due to the nature of LiveCode we have been able to focus on the principles >> behind good coding, and use both time and resources to become better at >> problem solving rather than to learn the intricacies of a specialised >> programming language. > > >> As far as I know, we are the only school in Norway to use LiveCode as the >> preferred tool in this subject. >> >> On behalf of my students, I am very happy with the results, and I very much >> look forward to teach programming with LiveCode to yet another group of >> students next year. >> >> Regards >> Tore Nilsen >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
