Friday, August 28, 2009

Grade 12 PAT Phase 3

I have just been looking at some Phase 3 of the Gr 12 PAT. Here are some general comments.
  1. The graphs must be woven into the story/discussion. The graphs must NOT be in a section on their own. The graphs must help explain the discussion.
  2. There should be no need for any material in the report to come from any web site or copied from anywhere. The report is the result of an investigation into a problem. It is the ‘result’.
  3. The report should look professional! I have seen too many spelling mistakes, and the font in a document should be the same for all sections, and a heading 3 is smaller than a heading 1!
  4. A caption of a graph is not a story, and should not pretend to be a story. A caption is a ‘heading’ for an image. You talk about the evidence of the graph in the body of the text as part of the story.
  5. The conclusion should draw all the findings together and is a summary of all the work, and end with a final sentence giving the verdict (slotsom).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dankie vir die inligting.
Net jammer ons kry dit as Pat taak voltooi is.

Kan iemand nie vir ons 'n amper/volledige pat taak op sit van gr 10 - 12 dat ons kan sien waar het ons dalk fouteer het en dit vir 2010 kan korrigeer.
Duisend dankies vir al die kennis wat u met ons deel.

Anonymous said...

Maybe this will help?

http://www.thutong.doe.gov.za/blogs/cat_screedosphere/archive/2009/05/27/pat-matters-5.aspx

Anonymous said...

I feel that PAT is the most unsophisticated piece of work given to learners, it is clearly NOT explained well and I think that a new task should be in place of PAT. PAT demonstrates the learners ability to research while using minor computer skills rather than actually using skills taught in their grade, this refers to grade 11 and grade 12 PAT.