ARC :: Additional Information

Additional Information

View the Recording Templates for this Activity (Microsoft Word, 35 KB)

Guidelines for marking

The following guidelines for marking show one approach to assigning a value to a student's work. Other approaches may be used that better suit the reporting process of the school. Categories, marks, grades, visual representations or individual comments/notations may all be useful.

Range	A student in this range:
11-15 (High)	uses all steps outlined to produce a definition of selected terms identifies all issues relevant to the situation, for inclusion in the privacy policy analyses a variety of data privacy policies to identify the important features demonstrates an excellent understanding of responsible practice and ethics in designing a data privacy policy for the given situation incorporates effective planning and justification for setting up the database for the given situation
6-10 (Satisfactory)	uses most steps outlined to produce a definition of selected terms identifies some issues relevant to the situation, for inclusion in the privacy policy researches a number of data privacy policies and identifies their features demonstrates an understanding of responsible practice and ethics in designing a data privacy policy for the given situation demonstrates planning and justification for setting up the database for the given situation
1-5 (Progressing)	uses some steps outlined to produce a definition of selected terms identifies some issues relevant to the situation, for inclusion in the privacy policy researches some data privacy policies and identifies some of their features requires assistance in understanding responsible practice and ethics in designing a data privacy policy for the given situation requires assistance in planning and justification for setting up the database for the given situation.

Feedback

Students will be given written feedback from the teacher. Comments will inform them about such things as:

the accuracy of the definitions
the identification of various database issues in the policy after analysis
their justifications of what is responsible practice and ethical use of information technology after analysis of data privacy policies
how well they have designed a data privacy policy for a doctor's surgery, which reflects ethical consideration and responsible practice
their justification for choices of fields, software and backup plans for their database.

Future directions

Students who have not demonstrated substantial achievement in relation to the outcomes will need to be taken through a series of articles or case studies more closely with the teacher, and shown the relevance and importance of the ethical use and responsible practice of database-related information technology. There are other opportunities for this to occur in the topic and course. This Activity can lead into an investigation of how other database issues relate to the collection and organisation of data in a database.

Resources

A variety of data privacy policies in hard copy
The internet to find privacy policies on websites
A word processor to type the data privacy policy
Either a website creation program, a publishing program, or a presentation program
Database Task sheet
Student self-reflection prompt sheet
Internet sites:

Elsagen project
http://hi.is/~elsagen/egdescription.html
Best Practices for Handling Electronic Institutional and Personal Information
http://itso.iu.edu/Articles_and_Guides
http://itso.iu.edu