eHandbook: Key Skills
Nick Kiernan, Stafford Burndred, Gareth Williams
May 02
978 1 84070 538 6Ideal for all AS/A2 students
The eHandbook: Key Skills clearly explains what your students need to know, what they need to do and how to do it.
- Applicable to all exam boards.
- Contains all the essential information and explanations.
- Includes examples of the Key Skills tests with top tips and hints on how to pass the tests.
- Empowers students to take responsibility for success at Key Skills.
Essential guidance
Specially designed to demystify the Key Skills curriculum, this CD-ROM explains how to make the most of the assignments that are intrinsic to the AS/A2 course and how to integrate these assignments into a Key Skills portfolio.
The CD-ROM contains three publications, all aimed at Key Skills Level 3:
Application of Number
The resource includes assessment sheets on interpreting results of calculations, presenting findings and justifying methods. It also covers the wider skills in the post-16 curriculum; working with others; improving own learning and performance; and problem solving.
Communication
This part of the resource includes assessment sheets on oral, written and combination Communication Key Skills. A tracking calendar helps to identify what needs to be done and when it needs to be done by.
Information Technology
The resource includes assessment sheets on planning, exploring, developing and presenting information for different purposes. Includes examples of the Key Skills IT tests with top tips and hints on how to pass the tests.
Makes use of the new QCA datafiles
A sample examination paper is available, based on the structure introduced in 2001 where datafiles are downloaded by schools from the QCA Web site. The resource clearly illustrates how these datafiles are imported into the software packages and then used to answer examination questions.
Contents
Application of Number
Introduction
Part 1: The skills
- Key Skills: Application of Number
Part 2: Your portfolio
- Planning your approach
- Planning your portfolio material
- Your assignment
- Using ICT
- Checking your work
- Sample assignment
Part 3: Revision notes
- Estimating
- Standard form
- Ratio
- Scale and scale drawing
- Ratio for length, area and volume
- Percentages
- Percentages and fractions
- Using algebra
- Rewriting formula
- Using algebraic formulae
- Expansion of brackets
- Simultaneous equations: Solving using algebra
- The straight line equation y = mx + c
- Speed, time and distance graphs
- Enlargement
- Enlargement by a fractional scale factor
- Converting one metric unit to another
- Accuracy of measurement
- Compound measures
- Circles
- Calculating length, area and volume
- Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry
- Trigonometry: Finding an angle
- Trigonometry: Finding a side
- Trigonometry: Solving problems
- Tables and graphs
- Frequency tables and frequency diagrams
- Comparing data
- Averages
- Comparing two sets of data
- Grouped data
- Cumulative frequency
- Using cumulative frequency to compare distributions
- Scatter diagrams
- Line of best fit
- Pie charts
- Drawing pie charts
Part 4: The examination
- Examination advice
- Sample examination
- Sample examination answers
Glossary
Useful Web sites
Communication
Introduction
- Planning your approach
Part 1: The skills
- What are the skills?
- Discussion
- Presentation
- Reading
- Writing
Part 2: Your portfolio
- Your portfolio
- Gathering evidence from assignments
- Gathering evidence from other subjects
- Using ICT
Part 3: The examination
- The examination
- Worked examination
- Practice examination
Glossary
Useful Web sites
Information Technology
Introduction
Part 1: The skills
- Key skills: Information Technology
Part 2: Your portfolio
- Planning your approach
- Planning your portfolio material
- Sample assignment
Part 3: Level 3 IT skills
- Word processing
- Bullets and numbering
- Fields
- Graphics
- Mailmerge
- Styles
- Templates
- Databases
- Designing a database
- Queries
- Reports
- Macros
- Validations
- Spreadsheets
- Cell references: Absolute and relative
- Conditional formatting
- Charts
- Headers and footers
- IF function
- Lookup function: Vertical and horizontal
- Macros
- Naming sheets and cells
- Printing options
- Validation
- Transferring data between programs
- Data text file to word processor
- Data text file to database table
- Data text file to spreadsheet
- Database query results to word processor table
- Database query results to word processor mailmerge
- Database query results to spreadsheet
- Database report to word processor
- Database report to spreadsheet
- Spreadsheet table to word processor
- Spreadsheet chart to word processor
Part 4: The examination
- The examination
- The data files
- Examination preparation checklist
- Example question paper
Glossary
Useful Web sites
Price details
- £50+VAT for 50 licences.
- Additional licences 75p+VAT each.
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