Database Design and Assessment

The following PDF gives teachers a great understanding and starting point for assessment.

Databases can be a complicated subject. Most students will not have used Access before. The following video is about understanding database design. It explains in plain English what Access is, how it is different from other Microsoft office software and how to create a good database. The visuals a great, there are a lot of graphical representations and imagery. It is as though it was made for students. This would be a really great intro to the topic and help the students to gain knowledge and understanding of the first section of the syllabus for this topic:

Database development

·          purpose of a database

·          components of a database

·          inputs of a database

    

    

The following website is great for school kids. It has specific link headings in the table of contents (shown below) that students can access to learn how to accomplish a particular task in creating a database.  This helps teachers as students learn at different paces especially in IST, some students are whizzes and other take continual explanations. This website allows the struggling students to refresh their own memory/ reteach themselves. It will make them be and feel more autonomous and less incapable in the subject, without having to continuously ask for the teachers help.

Link: Database Tutorials

 

References

Database Tutorial. (2012). Retrieved May 23, 2012, from Quack IT: http://www.quackit.com/database/tutorial/