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Checking Data: Validation and Verification

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Eduqas/WJEC ICT 5539, Unit 1 (1.2.2) — data capture methods, validation and verification, sources of error and how to fix them. Targets the single worst-answered idea in the Summer 2024 paper: validation checks data is reasonable, not that it is true.

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Lesson outline

  1. Lesson 23: Checking Data
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Quick Check — What Is Data Capture?
  4. Data Capture Methods
  5. What Does Validation Actually Check?
  6. Passes Every Check — and Every Value Is Still Wrong
  7. Hinge Question — What Does Validation Really Do?
  8. Verification: Checking Accuracy
  9. Validation vs Verification — Side by Side
  10. Check For Understanding — Match the Check
  11. Sources of Error — and How to Fix Them
  12. Main Task — Design Your Own Validation Rules
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