The document discusses changes to the design cycle at the school. It now has 4 stages - inquiring and analyzing, developing ideas, creating a solution, and evaluating. More time will be spent on each stage and more work is expected. Assessment criteria for each stage are also outlined, providing details on what will be graded. A high grade now requires high quality work that demonstrates all tasks for a given level, with reflection throughout the design cycle. Simply completing tasks is not enough - work must show depth, detail, and genuine reflection.

1. The Next Chapter
Design

2. Design Cycle
There are now only four stages in the Design
Cycle:
1. Inquiring and Analysing
2. Developing Ideas
3. Creating a Solution
4. Evaluating

3. 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!

4. The Design Cycle in Full

5. Assessment Criteria

6. 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.

7. 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.
1. Make a detailed research plan, which identifies and prioritizes the primary and secondary
research needed to make your product.
1. 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).
1. Develop a detailed design brief, which summarizes all your analysis and research in your own
words.

8. Developing Ideas
What’s Included?
1. Develop a list of success criteria for the solution.
1. Present feasible design ideas, using an appropriate medium(s) and
Outline the key features, which can be correctly interpreted by others.
1. Present the chosen design describing the key features.
1. Create a planning drawing/diagram, which outlines the main details for
making the chosen solution.

9. 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.
1. Follow the plan to create the solution, which functions as intended and is
presented appropriately. Show as many of your ICT skills as possible.
1. Lists the changes made to the chosen design and plan when making the
solution.

10. Evaluating
What’s Included?
1. Outlines simple, relevant testing methods, which generate data, to
measure the success of the solution.
1. Outline the success of the solution against the design specification based
on authentic product testing.
1. Outline how the solution could be improved.
1. Outlines the impact of the solution on the client/target audience.

11. 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:

12. 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.

13. 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.