2026-05-25 10:26:17lisa:
SD C04: add Check Your Understanding to Efficiency vs Effectiveness; correct efficiency factors to VCAA's three
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Check Your Understanding
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For each statement, decide: is it an **efficiency** criterion or an **effectiveness** criterion? Answer in your head first, then unfold.
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1. "The report exports to PDF in under 3 seconds."
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>| **Efficiency** — it's about speed of processing (resource use).
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2. "A first-time user can find the search bar without instructions."
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>| **Effectiveness** — usability; it's about fitness for the user's purpose.
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3. "The app runs the duplicate-check without re-reading the whole database each time."
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>| **Efficiency** — cost of data and file manipulation.
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4. "Every field required by the SRS appears on the booking form."
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>| **Effectiveness** — completeness against the requirements.
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5. Version A loads in 0.3 s but only 30% of users can book unaided. Which factor is it *failing*?
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>| **Effectiveness** — it's fast (efficient) but most users can't achieve their goal.
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## The evaluation matrix — where this matters
In your evaluation matrix, each table uses separate factors: