• Understand the distinction between knowledge, information and data.
   

• Information has context and its meaning is determined by the context.
   

• Understand the nature of data: recorded facts, events or transactions.
   

• Understand the different ways in which data can arise: (direct capture or as a by-product of another operation).
   

• Describe the effect of the quality of the data source on the information produced.
   

• Understand the need to encode information as data.
   

• Understand the problems associated with the coding of value judgements.

See the books page for more details about the titles listed below

Mott & Leeming Ch1. Pages 1 - 8

Heathcote Ch.8 Pages 5 - 6

Heathcote Ch.43 Pages 238 - 242

Doyle Ch.1 Pages 1 - 15

De Watteville & Naughton Pgs 257 - 259

AQA past papers
Past papers. Not as useful as the Psionica database AQA shamefully closed but...

Practice questions
27 practice questions on data, information, knowledge, from www.teach-ict.com

Practice questions
More practice questions for 10.1 (.rtf file - opens in Word/Writer)

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.

Links to general online resources for 10.1. I recommend right clicking links/icons and "Save Target As..." for anything other than web pages (see key below)

	Flash Notes
Steve Longley's excellent flash revision notes, from the psionica website, available for your offline viewing pleasure!  Right click the link and Save Target As...
	Knowledge, information, data
Comprehensive set of summary revision notes from the KJS. This is a very useful resource for planning your revision
	Knowledge, information, data
Short PowerPoint presentation based on chapter 1 of the Heathcote textbook
	Data, knowledge, information
Mini-website specifically written for this topic from teach-ict's excellent collection.
	Data Sources
Very useful handout from Alcester Grammar School summarises data sources, typical uses of and benefits and drawbacks of different sources.
	Encoding Data
Another useful handout from Alcester Grammar. A big FatMax hello to the magnificently named FM who maintains the AGS website!
	Knowledge, information, data
PowerPoint presentation from Chris Brown at Billericay School. Also covers Value of Information 10.2. There are loads of presentations for you to download from the Billericay website
	Data, information and processing
Excellent online PowerPoint presentation from Ashfordman OCR ICT Different exam board (nobody is perfect) but Glen Milberry seems to know what he's talking about!
	Data, information and processing
The same presentation from OCRICT available as a self-extracting zip file. It's *still* very good! FatMax recommended.
	Knowledge, Information, Data
Summary revision notes and questions from North Chadderton High. Includes a series of past paper questions and answers
	Knowledge, Info & Data Flows
Flowchart illustrating these concepts from Kegrave High School. This is pretty good if you're one of those X-type learners. Can't remember what X is but I heard about it on a course once!
	Knowledge, Information and Data
Online notes from www.ictWeb.org Great introduction to this topic or alternatively use it as a framework for planning your revision.

Key to resources:

PowerPoint presentation Word file Web page Macromedia Flash