11.1 Data Capture
| Specification Content/Learning Outcomes |
Data capture looks at the relative merits of different methods of data capture.
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Resources - Data Capture
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PowerPoint presentation | |
Word file | |
Acrobat file |
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Internet resource | Video |
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Notes |
| Data Capture |
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n/a | Alcester Grammar School links covering this topic |
| Data Capture |
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1.5MB | PowerPoint presentation from Mike Highfield |
| Data Capture |
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124KB | Short PowerPoint presentation based on Heathcote Ch.15 |
| Data Capture |
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85KB | PowerPoint presentation from Chris Brown. |
| Data Capture |
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n/a | Greenwood School's 'ICT2 Textbook' |
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Reading - Data Capture
Texts other than Heathcote can be found in the ICT section of the Library
Resource Centre.
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Heathcote - Core Text | |
Internet resource |  |
Other book |
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Handout/worksheet |
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Size |
Notes |
| Data Capture |
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n/a | Heathcote Ch.15 Pages 78 - 84 |
| Data Capture Methods |
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n/a | Doyle Ch.6 Pages 87 - 90 |
| Notes on Data |
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n/a | Mott & Leeming Ch.8 Pages 65 - 72 |
| Data Capture * |
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123KB | Handout from David Yates and Nick Goforth |
| Data capture |
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n/a | Steve Longley's excellent Flash notes. |
| Input Devices |
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n/a | Notes from Mark Hunter Computing |
| Encoding Data |
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n/a | Notes from Mark Hunter Computing |
| Encoding Data |
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54Kb | Handout from Alcester Grammar School |
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Practice questions/homework - Data Capture
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Past exam question |  |
Heathcote question |
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Other question |
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FatMax assignment |  |
Smokin' Dog assignment | |||
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Question |
| 1. Spring 2002 ICT2 Question 10 |
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n/a | A company has offices on five
different sites, each office has between ten and twenty members of staff
working in it. Internal e-mail is used as a means of communicating between
the staff. It has been suggested that speech recognition input and voice
output might be used for the e-mail system.
(a). State the extra input and output devices each PC would need to support speech recognition input and voice output. (2) (b). State two advantages to the staff of using a speech recognition system. (2) (c). State three reasons why the speech recognition system may not be effective. (3) (d). State two disadvantages of the voice
output system. (2) |
| 2. Summer 2001 ICT2 Question 9 |
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n/a | The local council wishes to
store the contents of documents on a computer system. The documents consist
of hand-written and typed text. The documents will be scanned and OCR
(Optical Character Recognition) software will be used to interpret the text
and export it to files that can be read by word-processing software. Describe two problems that could occur when scanning and interpreting the text. (4) Describe two advantages to be gained by using OCR software. (4) State three types of material, other than
text, that could also be input using the scanner. (3) |
| 3. Spring 2001 ICT1 Question 10 |
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n/a | A village store has just
installed a computerised point of sale system including a bar code reader.
(a). Describe two advantages that the store gains by using a bar code reader attached to a computerised point of sale system. (4) (b). Describe one disadvantage to the store
of using a bar code system. (2) |
| 4. Heathcote question |
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n/a | EDescribe briefly an
appropriate application for each of the following methods of input: (a). MICR (b). Key-to-disk (c). Video camera (d). Touch screen (e). Smart card (10 marks) |
| 5. 1997 NEAB Computing question 3 |
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n/a | (a) Why is MICR used in
preference to OCR in cheque processing systems (1)
(b). Why is OCR used in preference to MICR in invoicing systems? (1) (c) What is Optical Mark Reading (OMR) (1) (d) Give one situation where OMR might be
used (1) |
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