Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 1:
Appropriate design information has been sourced for a number of different purposes.
Relevant information for specific projects has been found and located successfully.
Appropriate research methodologies have been explained accurately and used successfully.
Implementation of analytical skills is appropriate and relevant.
Sketching and block modeling has been used effectively in the research process.
Contextualisation of design research is appropriate to the brief and the concept.
Design research has been grouped according to relevance and context.
Arguments and perspectives are original and valid and are contextualized within historical frameworks.
Arguments have been structured logically and coherently.
Relevant historical and contemporary research information has been used appropriately.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 2:
Appropriate and relevant problems have been located within collected design research.
Interpretation of problems is accurate and valid.
Contextualisation of problems and points of interaction is substantive and appropriate.
Sketching and block modeling has been used to interpret, contextualize and analyse design problems.
Analyses are relevant and substantive.
Identification is accurate and valid.
Explanations of design problems within design processes are clear and accurate.
Evaluations and assessments are thorough and substantive, contextualized and relevant.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 3:
Explanation and application of brainstorming and ideation techniques is accurate and relevant to the brief.
Multiple ideas have been generated.
Sketching has been used to develop various stylistic options of the design solution.
Explanation, identification and contextualization of the principles and elements of design are accurate and valid.
Selection of principles and elements is:
> Relevant to the brief and the concept.
> Aids in communication.
> Appropriate and contextualized.
Problems in the design process have been accurately predicted and detected.
A variety of solutions have been implemented successfully.
Block models are produced and demonstrate appropriate development and experimentation.
The design process is logical and demonstrates appropriate development and experimentation.
The design process develops appropriate and relevant solutions.
Appropriate CAD software packages are used to produce detailed designs for a wide variety of design projects.
Appropriate CAD software packages are operated to an industry level.
A range of design solutions have been produced.
Design solutions are:
> Appropriate and relevant to the brief and concepts.
> Original with an appropriate degree of creativity.
> Produced within the given time and media constraints.
A wide variety of problems solved successfully.
The design process has been planned appropriately and in accordance with the identified problem.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 4:
Identification and explanation of a variety of elements and principles of a design message are accurate and relevant.
Elements and principles have been accurately identified and contextualized.
A range of design messages have been interpreted accurately.
Identification and explanation of the communicative elements and principles of a range of design projects is accurate and appropriate.
A range of messages have been conveyed successfully using a variety of formats.
Messages are appropriate to their contexts.
Identification and contextualization of different target audiences is accurate and appropriate.
Messages are clearly conveyed to the specific target audience.
Identification and explanation of a variety of design messages and arguments is clear and valid.
A range of messages have been created successfully using a variety of different formats.
Interpretation of messages by the relevant target audience is accurate.
Design messages and arguments are original and convincing.
Presentation of ideas and solutions is clear and logical.
Explanations and rationalization of design solutions is valid and substantive.
Presentations are appropriate, and relevant.
Presentations and explanations are clear and logical.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 5:
Identification and explanation of a wide range of tools and media used in the production and implementation of design projects is accurate and appropriate.
Explanation of a variety of different processes used to produce final designs, are accurate and valid.
Appropriate materials, tools and processes have been selected for design projects.
Assessment and evaluations of selections are valid and substantive.
Identification and selections are appropriate and relevant to the brief and concept.
Appropriate technological skills and methodologies have been used in the final production of design.
Explanations and selections of technological processes are appropriate and relevant.
A range of design projects and processes have been explained accurately and planned appropriately.
Planning for the design process is appropriate and contextualized within design projects.
Organisation of the various elements and parts of the design process is efficient and successful.
Operation of fundamental hardware and technological components is appropriate to an industry level.
An appropriate variety of fundamental software packages are operated to an industry level.
Implementation of basic troubleshooting of hardware and software is successful.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 6:
A designed product has been completed successfully.
Appropriate technologies are used to complete the designed product.
Design projects have managed successfully.
Design projects are completed within time and media constraints.
Identification and explanation of the various components of the production process is valid and substantive.
dentification of various components of the design and production processes are accurate and appropriate.
The most appropriate production process has been selected.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 7:
Explanations of legal and liability records are accurate.
Production costs and profit margins are defined accurately.
Explanations of performance and planned performance are appropriate.
Explanations of the impact of market changes on businesses are appropriate and valid.
Customer needs are described accurately and appropriately.
Explanations of the role of business in society are valid and substantive.
The relationship between business and its environment has been explained appropriately.
Different forms of business ownership are described accurately.
Description of the various components of the business process, are valid and substantive.
The business has been formed into a cohesive identity.
Entrepreneurial opportunities have been identified appropriately and accurately.
Market research/feasibility studies have been conducted successfully.
Detailed cost estimates and implementation plans have been successfully prepared.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 8:
Explanations of business plans and legal and liability issues are accurate and contextualized.
Explanations of communication and leadership skills are appropriate.
Descriptions of organsational systems are accurate and relevant.
Preparation of business plan is appropriate and uses recognized business techniques.
Plans for consultation with relevant staff, management and stakeholders, is appropriate.
Objectives and content of the plan have been communicated successfully.
Business plan has been managed appropriately and successfully.
Actions have been implemented in a cost efficient manner.
Identification of environmental changes is accurate and appropriate.
Business plan is reviewed and monitored consistently and successfully.
Contingency plans have been implemented successfully.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit-Level Outcome 9:
Selection is appropriate and relevant to a specific context.
The portfolio is appropriate and relevant to the context.
The presentation is clear and logical and the explanations are valid.
Integrated Assessment:
Integrated assessment at the level of the qualification provides an opportunity for learners to show that they are able to integrate concepts, ideas and actions across courses/modules to achieve competence that is grounded and coherent in relation to the purpose and exit level outcomes of the qualification. Integrated assessment shows how already demonstrated competence in individual areas can be linked and applied for the achievement of a holistic outcome. In relation to design in particular, the different competencies involved in the design process cannot be achieved in isolation, and assessment needs to consider the sum of the parts.
Integrated assessment assesses the learner’s application of competencies within the broad framework of design. Whilst integrated assessment evaluates the demonstrated competencies, it is also important that it evaluates the thinking and critical framework behind the competencies.
Assessment should be specific to Industrial Design. Assessors make use of formative and summative assessment procedures and assess the combination of practical, theoretical, applied and reflexive competencies. Through the use of written tests, examinations and applied knowledge and skills are continuously evaluated in practical project work.
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