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Design Cycle

There are now only four stages in the Design Cycle:

1. Inquiring and Analysing2. Developing Ideas3. Creating a Solution4. Evaluating

What does this mean?

● It means more time will be spent on each Stage.

● It means more work will be expected in each Stage.

● The Design Cycle has been reorganized, it hasn’t been shrunk!

The Design Cycle in Full

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Criteria:

Now, we are going to take a look at the Assessment Criteria posted on the Blog.

As a class we need to read through this thoroughly. It explains exactly what you will be marked on through each stage of the Design Cycle.

Inquiring and Analysing:What’s included in this Stage?

1. Write an introduction explaining:a. what the main task is (it will usually be creating a product) and who you are making the

product for (client/target audience)b. why this task is relevant and is worth doing (making reference to the key concepts, related

concepts, global contexts, inquiry question and approaches to learning) For a high grade you must ensure you are giving a lot of detail in your explanations.

2. Make a detailed research plan, which identifies and prioritizes the primary and secondary research needed to make your product.

3. Analyse in detail a range of existing products that inspire a solution to the problem in detail (e.g. if you’re making a poster, you analyse examples of posters).

4. Develop a detailed design brief, which summarizes all your analysis and research in your own words.

Developing Ideas

What’s Included?1. Develop a list of success criteria for the solution.

2. Present feasible design ideas, using an appropriate medium(s) and Outline the key features, which can be correctly interpreted by others.

3. Present the chosen design describing the key features.

4. Create a planning drawing/diagram, which outlines the main details for making the chosen solution.

Creating the Solution

What’s Included?1. Outline a plan, which considers the use of resources and time, sufficient

for peers to be able to follow to create the solution.

2. Follow the plan to create the solution, which functions as intended and is presented appropriately. Show as many of your ICT skills as possible.

3. Lists the changes made to the chosen design and plan when making the solution.

Evaluating

What’s Included?1. Outlines simple, relevant testing methods, which generate data, to

measure the success of the solution.

2. Outline the success of the solution against the design specification based on authentic product testing.

3. Outline how the solution could be improved.

4. Outlines the impact of the solution on the client/target audience.

Achieving a High Grade

What’s Changed?To a degree, with the old design cycle, if you followed the instructions for each task and included a piece of work that addressed each task you were able to achieve a high grade.

Now, it’s a bit different. There are three important areas of work to consider carefully:

Achieving a High Grade

What’s Changed?1. The quality and content of your work:

a. You might think you have submitted pieces of work that cover all the highest level assessment criteria, based on ticking off each task on a checklist. BUT, if each task is done with not enough detail or quality, then it does not count towards that grade level.

b. The rule: your finished assessments must show clear evidence of all tasks being completed for the desired attainment level, with adequate detail and quality in each task.

Achieving a High Grade

What’s Changed?2) Subsequently, this means that there is an added emphasis on reflection within your work.

a. The deeper and more genuinely pensive and reflective your work is throughout the Design Cycle, the higher the grade will be.

b. For example if your submit a piece of work with tasks completed to a Level 5-6 standard, if you have been more reflective it is likely you will be awarded the higher of the two grades.