Haileybury Almaty

This is an exciting course for those pupils who have enjoyed ICT in Year 9 and wish to continue their interest and acquire more advanced computing qualification.

 

Reasons to study IGCSE ICT include: Computers and ICT are having, and will continue to have a great impact on today's society, on education, business, administration, communications and all aspects of everyday life. Universities and colleges increasingly expect students to have a thorough grounding in ICT skills. Studying ICT opens up a variety of career paths, such as telecommunications, e-commerce, development of software, web design, etc. ICT will be playing an increasing role in the continuing development of Kazakhstan.

The differences between Year 9 ICT and IGCSE ICT are chiefly

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• Smaller classes, so you will have more individual help
• The chance to enjoy working with a wide variety of programs and computer hardware
• You will have more time for independent work
• Greater emphasis on planning and practical work.

The subject will be taught through 8 interrelated units of study

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1. Types and Components of Computer Systems
2. Input and Output Devices
3. Storage Devices and Media
4. Computer Networks
5. Data Types
6. The Effects of Using ICT
7. The ways in which ICT is used
8. Systems Analysis and Design

By the end of the course students should be able to

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• use e-mail and the Internet to gather and communicate information;
• use wordprocessing facilities to prepare documents;
• use database facilities to manipulate data to solve problems and represent data graphically;
• integrate data from different sources into a single document or report;
• produce output in a specified format;
• use a spreadsheet to create and test a data model, extracting and summarising data;
• represent data as information in a variety of chart formats;
• create a structured website with style sheets, tables and hyperlinks;
• create and control an interactive presentation.

Students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in relation to

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• the functions of the main hardware and software components of computer systems;
• the networking of information-processing systems;
• the ways in which information and communication technology is used and the effects of its use;
• the stages and methods of system analysis and design;computing terminology.

Assessment

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The course will be assessed in the form of 3 papers.
All students will be entered for all papers. A written paper of 80 marks will assess knowledge and understanding of the subject. This paper will contain mainly questions requiring a short response, a word, a phrase or one or two sentences, although there will be some questions requiring a more extended response.
Two practical tests will assess practical skills.
The weighting will be 40% knowledge and understanding, 60% practical.