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13.4.1 Key points/learning outcomes |
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Understand management
information needs: the concept of relevance and methods of
interpretation.
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Understand that information
has many characteristics and can be classified in many ways. Examples
include:
Source - internal, external, primary, secondary
Nature - quantitative, qualitative, formal, informal
Level - strategic, tactical, operational
Time - historical, current, future
Frequency - real-time, hourly, daily, monthly
Use - planning, control, decision
Form - written, visual, aural, sensory
Type - disaggregated, aggregated, sampled.
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Discuss the value of
information in aiding the decision making process.
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Understand the difference
between internal and external information requirements.
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Describe the characteristics
of good information and delivery, e.g. relevant; accurate; complete;
user confidence; to right person; at right time; in right detail; via
correct channel of communication; understandable.
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Describe the advantages and
characteristics of good information within an applications context.
See the
books page for more
details about the titles listed below
McWeeney -
Mott & Leeming - pages 33 - 45
Doyle
Heathcote - chapter 42
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13.4.1 Practice questions |
AQA past papers
Past papers. Not as useful as the Psionica database AQA shamefully closed
but...
Practice questions
Past paper practice questions for 13.4 (.rtf file - opens in Word/Writer)
suitable for revision/homework etc. etc.
Past paper answers
Answers to the questions above. Password protected .doc file. Sorry but
the password is only available to teachers.
Older Exam Papers
Past papers (pre 2000) not included on the official AQA site from
Colchester VI Form College. These still contain some relevant questions
for this topic. Look for IT02/ICT2 papers. I think this is dead??? Try
this
instead
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Links to general online
resources for 13.4.1. I'd recommend right clicking links/icons and "Save
Target As..." for anything other than web pages (see key below)
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Information - Key terms |
Some of the key terms in the list on the
left explained. I think this originally came from Colchester VI Form
College but I'm not sure?
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Good Information? |
Now is probably a good time to look back at
AS1 and "Value and Importance of Info" - if you slept through that
lesson just follow the link and see what you missed!
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Information |
Set of notes from David Yates of KJS fame
based on chapter 42 of the Heathcote book.
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Information |
Short PowerPoint presentation, by Chris
Brown, based on
chapter 42 of Heathcote A level textbook.
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From Alcester Grammar (and the magnificently
named FM!), this ppt is for AS but covers the "characteristics of good
info" bit in this section ICT4
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Measuring the Value of Information |
This is quite an old article (it was one of
the first links on FatMax1!!!) but is still very relevant to this topic.
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Information and Data |
Online revision notes for this topic from
Antonine Education. There's a little hot potatoes quiz at the end of it
to test your knowledge
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13.4 Information |
Summary notes and questions from North
Chadderton High School. It's the same document for 13.4 - Data
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Information
Revision |
Nice set of revision type questions from
Gerard Horsley at B & P College. These are great for testing your
knowledge at the end of the unit.
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Information and Data |
Page of links from
Alcester Grammar School covering this topic.
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Revision Questions |
Couple of older past paper questions on
legislation suitable for homeworks, revision, blah de blah de blah.
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Key to resources:
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