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How to use this booklet This booklet is designed to help guide you through the completion of your Controlled Assignment as part of your Graphic Products G.C.S.E. Each double page spread is dedicated to a section of the mark scheme and presents you with advice on completing the tasks, ideas for how to lay out your design sheets and the criteria your teachers and moderators will be using to mark your work. Whats on each page Each page of the booklet consists of three distinct elements, which are:
Investigating
Below are two types of research that all students will need to carryout. Product Analysis: You must undertake a product analysis as your first research task. This allows you to familiarise yourself with the type of product you will be designing. The areas you should focus on are: Materials and processes used to manufacture the products. Aesthetics used to create visual connection with the user. The ergonomics and user interaction with the product. Mark Band 78 You should conclude your product analysis by stating what you now know you need to include in your design and listing areas of research you now need to carry out based on what you have found out. Material/Process research: This type of research task is to be carried out as a practical activity. You are aiming to identify the positive and negative characteristics or side effects of using the particular material or process as part of your final solution. This can be achieved easily by using small amounts of the different materials/processes to manufacture the same simple product and then Investigating the Design Contex document your findings. You will want to comment on the following areas when analysing the material or process: Relative cost of the material or process compared to the others. What positive and negative side effects using it will have on your choice of design solution. Where you could use it in your project.

This section of the design folder can be broken into the following areas that you will need to complete: Design Brief: This is were you will need to explain what aim of your project is by defining the following: Who the client is? Who the Target Market are? What you will be producing? How will you produce it? What limitations are there on you during the project (including time, costs etc)?

Research: During your project you will be required to produce research on your chosen product and the Target Market that the product is intended for. this research should be clearly generated from your task analysis and should be focused on giving you the necessary theoretical information you need to produce realistic design solutions. The following is a list of the guidelines for producing a successful research section: Keep all research specific and justified against the brief. Analysis of the research must show your understanding, it must not be descriptive. You must analyse real products that you have in your possession. it is unacceptable to analyse a product based on images from the internet. Introduce each research task by explaining why you are doing it and what you aiming to achieve. Keep all research concise and only include information that is directly relevant to your project. It is not good enough for you to read about materials and processes, you must carry out research tasks to test them for their suitability. Your findings from each research task must be presented and justified for their use in the project.

standard practice to carry out further research as you encounter issues with your design solutions. When this is the case it should also be documented on the relevant pages of your design folder. Target Market: As part of your investigation into the design brief you will be required to produce a profile for your target market. A profile is a list of characteristic common to a memeber of the Target Market. This goes beyond you simply stating your beliefs about the intended users of the product, you could: Hold a focus group to ask different members of the target market to analyse similar products. Conduct a survey to find out information regarding your Target market. Utilise research conducted by others on the same design problems.

Remember to always analyse your findings buy giving justified choices as to which materials/processess you fell are best suited to use in your project.

Task Analysis: This is required to help you draw conclusions regarding your project. Buy breaking down the information you have and generating a set of tasks you will need to complete you can ensure you are able to successfully meet your design brief. This can be achieved in many ways as each designers working practices will differ wildly, some suggestions have been listed below: Spider diagram/Mind map listing what you know and need to find out. Tables listing each stage and processes, equipment etc related to it.

Design Specification: All of the previous work should lead you to compile a list of criteria that you will need to achieve when producing your design solution. These criteria should meet the following guidelines: Each point must reflect an area of your analysis from earlier in the project. Criteria must be concise and explicit, break long points into two separate ones.

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Discrimination shown when selecting and acquiring relevant research that will promote originality in designing Excellent understanding and analysis of the design context Detailed analysis of relevant existing products or systems undertaken related to design intentions Comprehensive analysis of relevant and focused research undertaken Clear and specific design criteria identified, reflecting the analysis undertaken Target market identified and the intended consumer/user profiled Good understanding and analysis of the design context Good analysis of relevant products or systems undertaken Good analysis of relevant research and context Design criteria which reflects the analysis undertaken Target market for product has been identified

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After completing your task analysis you should should be left with a list of activities you will need to carry out before you can begin producing design solutions.

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Basic understanding and analysis of the design context Some analysis of related products or systems undertaken Made a superficial analysis of most of the research material and the context Design criteria reflects most of the analysis undertaken Some consideration has been taken of the likely consumer/user Limited understanding or analysis of design context Minimal analysis of other products or systems undertaken Provided little evidence of research and analysis of context Design criteria is very general and lacking in any detail Limited understanding of the target market/user evident

It is important to note that whilst research is always undertaken at the beginning of the project, it is also

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Brief Task Analysis User Profile

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Intro Object Product Product Image

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Intro Images Results

Conclusions

Task Analysis User Profile Research Intended User Profile

Research Intended

Conclusions Whilst this is not the only way to lay out your product analysis, it does give centre stage to the images of the products you are analysing. You could add close up images of the parts next to each section of text to help the reader understand your point.

The three layouts above all show you one way of laying out the first page of your design folder. You will notice that in each layout the Task Analysis has been given the largest space as this is the main focus of the page.

These two layouts show just how much freedom there is for you to show flare and creativity when laying out the pages of your design folder. The first shows a materials testing page designed to lead the viewer down the page in an interesting

fashion without it being visually confusing. The second is a table layout that could be used for any materials or processes research. You cold even have multiple tables, each for a completely different piece of research.

The main body of the page is dedicated to explain how to complete each section of your design folder, breaking it down into the important parts and identifying key things you will need to remember when completing each page.

The lower section of the page is given over to help you layout your deign sheets. Each box contains a suggestion for how you may want to layout your design sheets for this section.

Each section is finished off by giving you the mark scheme for the section being discussed. These are the exact criteria that your teachers will be used to mark your final design work so it is important that you understand what they are.

Below are the rules for determining malpractice for students work failure to comply with these rules will result in students being removed from the course.

Malpractice

Candidates must not:

Submit work typed or wordprocessed by a third person without acknowledgement. Lend work to other candidates; Allow other candidates access to, or the use of, their own independently sourced source material; Submit work which is not their own; Include work copied directly from books, the internet or other sources without acknowledgement and attribution;

This section of the design folder can be broken into the following areas that you will need to complete: Design Brief: This is were you will need to explain what aim of your project is by defining the following: Who the client is? Who the Target Market are? What you will be producing? How will you produce it? What limitations are there on you during the project (including time, costs etc)?

Research: During your project you will be required to produce research on your chosen product and the Target Market that the product is intended for. this research should be clearly generated from your task analysis and should be focused on giving you the necessary theoretical information you need to produce realistic design solutions. The following is a list of the guidelines for producing a successful research section: Keep all research specific and justified against the brief. Analysis of the research must show your understanding, it must not be descriptive. You must analyse real products that you have in your possession. it is unacceptable to analyse a product based on images from the internet. Introduce each research task by explaining why you are doing it and what you aiming to achieve. Keep all research concise and only include information that is directly relevant to your project. It is not good enough for you to read about materials and processes, you must carry out research tasks to test them for their suitability. Your findings from each research task must be presented and justified for their use in the project.

Investigating

standard practice to carry out further research as you encounter issues with your design solutions. When this is the case it should also be documented on the relevant pages of your design folder. Target Market: As part of your investigation into the design brief you will be required to produce a profile for your target market. A profile is a list of characteristic common to a memeber of the Target Market. This goes beyond you simply stating your beliefs about the intended users of the product, you could: Hold a focus group to ask different members of the target market to analyse similar products. Conduct a survey to find out information regarding your Target market. Utilise research conducted by others on the same design problems.

Task Analysis: This is required to help you draw conclusions regarding your project. Buy breaking down the information you have and generating a set of tasks you will need to complete you can ensure you are able to successfully meet your design brief. This can be achieved in many ways as each designers working practices will differ wildly, some suggestions have been listed below: Spider diagram/Mind map listing what you know and need to find out. Tables listing each stage and processes, equipment etc related to it.

Design Specification: All of the previous work should lead you to compile a list of criteria that you will need to achieve when producing your design solution. These criteria should meet the following guidelines: Each point must reflect an area of your analysis from earlier in the project. Criteria must be concise and explicit, break long points into two separate ones.

After completing your task analysis you should should be left with a list of activities you will need to carry out before you can begin producing design solutions.

It is important to note that whilst research is always undertaken at the beginning of the project, it is also

Brief

Research Intended

Brief Task Analysis

Brief Task Analysis User Profile

Task Analysis User Profile Research Intended User Profile

Research Intended

The three layouts above all show you one way of laying out the first page of your design folder. You will notice that in each layout the Task Analysis has been given the largest space as this is the main focus of the page.

Below are two types of research that all students will need to carryout. Product Analysis: You must undertake a product analysis as your first research task. This allows you to familiarise yourself with the type of product you will be designing. The areas you should focus on are: Materials and processes used to manufacture the products. Aesthetics used to create visual connection with the user. The ergonomics and user interaction with the product.

You should conclude your product analysis by stating what you now know you need to include in your design and listing areas of research you now need to carry out based on what you have found out. Material/Process research: This type of research task is to be carried out as a practical activity. You are aiming to identify the positive and negative characteristics or side effects of using the particular material or process as part of your final solution. This can be achieved easily by using small amounts of the different materials/processes to manufacture the same simple product and then

document your findings. You will want to comment on the following areas when analysing the material or process: Relative cost of the material or process compared to the others. What positive and negative side effects using it will have on your choice of design solution. Where you could use it in your project.

Remember to always analyse your findings buy giving justified choices as to which materials/processess you fell are best suited to use in your project.

Mark Band 78

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Discrimination shown when selecting and acquiring relevant research that will promote originality in designing Excellent understanding and analysis of the design context Detailed analysis of relevant existing products or systems undertaken related to design intentions Comprehensive analysis of relevant and focused research undertaken Clear and specific design criteria identified, reflecting the analysis undertaken Target market identified and the intended consumer/user profiled Good understanding and analysis of the design context Good analysis of relevant products or systems undertaken Good analysis of relevant research and context Design criteria which reflects the analysis undertaken Target market for product has been identified

Investigating the Design Context

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Basic understanding and analysis of the design context Some analysis of related products or systems undertaken Made a superficial analysis of most of the research material and the context Design criteria reflects most of the analysis undertaken Some consideration has been taken of the likely consumer/user Limited understanding or analysis of design context Minimal analysis of other products or systems undertaken Provided little evidence of research and analysis of context Design criteria is very general and lacking in any detail Limited understanding of the target market/user evident

Intro

Intro Object Product Product Image Conclusions

Image Image Image Image Image Image Conclusions

Intro Images Results

Conclusions

Whilst this is not the only way to lay out your product analysis, it does give centre stage to the images of the products you are analysing. You could add close up images of the parts next to each section of text to help the reader understand your point.

These two layouts show just how much freedom there is for you to show flare and creativity when laying out the pages of your design folder. The first shows a materials testing page designed to lead the viewer down the page in an interesting

fashion without it being visually confusing. The second is a table layout that could be used for any materials or processes research. You cold even have multiple tables, each for a completely different piece of research.

This section of the design folder carries nearly one third of the makes for your entire project and therefore will consist of the largest number of pages. It can be split down into the following ares:

Development of Design Proposals

specification. Show considerations for the materials, processes, social, moral, environmental and sustainability issues relevant to the design. Show multiple approaches to solving the design brief, they must not be improvements on the previous design.

Concept Sketches: This is a collection of loose sketches that should attempt to answer the brief but are intended to be free of the constraints of actually making it. The following are important to remember when completing this task: You should attempt to show constructional details where possible. Keep these sketches as unique and imaginative as possible. This page can appear in either the beginning of the folder as your initial reaction to the brief and task analysis or after your design specification as a visual brain storming activity.

Development of Solution: This is the section of your design folder where you will be required to draw the successes from your design ideas to produce a final design proposal. In order to achieve this you will need to do the following: Redesign your most successful design idea to rectify any errors, whilst also drawing on successful features from the discarded design ideas. Experiment with changing small details such as joining methods, graphical layout, positioning of key features over the course of multiple developments. Test and objectively evaluate all developments against the relevant criteria from the design specification. Have detailed annotation to help explain and justify the design choices made and considerations for the materials, processes, social, moral, environmental and sustainability issues relevant to the design. All developments must be modelled.

Final design Proposal: This section is where you will present the design which you believe will best satisfy the requirements of the design brief and the design specification. This will take the form of a Presentation Drawing showing your product and its graphics in a three dimensional pictorial format, as well as a Working Drawing which is a scale technical drawing. When producing this section you should remember that: Presentation drawings should be a representation of your very best graphical skills but do not have to be fully drawn and rendered by hand if the use of CAD is appropriate. Three dimensional designs should be drawn using the Third Angle Orthographic technique, whilst structural packaging designs should be presented as a net development with additional construction diagrams. For the purposes of this project technical drawings should not contain any surface graphics.

Design Ideas: Take your most successful design from your concept sketches and produce detailed ideas that show a greater level of accuracy and detail. All design ideas should: Be tested by making models of them. Have detailed annotation to help explain and justify the design choices made. Fully tested and objectively evaluated against the relevant criteria from the design

Product Specification: This is a new specification that you will need to present with your final design proposal. It should be generated by your final design proposal and will contain information from your previous specification but must be far more explicit regarding materials, finishes, dimensions and tolerances for the finished product.

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Model Model Analysis Analysis Model

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Analysis The layout above shows best way to produce a concept sketches page, lots of loose overlapping sketches leaving very little white space on the page.

The two layouts above show different approaches to communicating your design ideas. The first would be useful for showcasing detailed graphical design ideas as each one is given a large area of the page to fill.

The second would work better for use with structural packaging or three dimensional ideas, as here we are concerned with the size, shape and constructional aspects of each design.

Mark Band 26 - 32

19 - 25

Imaginative and innovative ideas have been developed, demonstrating creativity, flair and originality. Further developments made to take account of ongoing research A coherent and appropriate design strategy, with clear evidence of a planned approach, adopted throughout The implications of a wide range of issues including social, moral, environmental and sustainability, are taken into consideration and inform the development of the design proposals Excellent development work through experimentation with a wide variety of techniques and modelling (including CAD where appropriate) in order to produce a final design solution Appropriate materials/ingredients and components selected with full regard to their working properties Fully detailed and justified product/manufacturing specification taking full account of the analysis undertaken

Development of Design Proposals

12 - 18

Imaginative ideas demonstrating a degree of creativity, which are further developed to take account of ongoing research An appropriate design strategy, with evidence of planning, adopted for most aspects Development of design proposals take into account the main aspects relating to a variety of social, moral, environmental and sustainability issues Good development work achieved through working with a variety of techniques and modelling (including CAD where appropriate) Appropriate materials/ingredients and components selected with regard to their working properties Product/manufacturing specification is complete and reflects key aspects of the analysis undertaken Design ideas show some degree of creativity and further development An appropriate design strategy, with some evidence of planning, adopted for some aspects Developments of design solutions are influenced to some extent by factors relating to social, moral, environmental and sustainability issues Adequate development work achieved through working with a range of techniques and modelling (including CAD where appropriate) Materials/ingredients and components selected with some regard to their working properties Product/manufacturing specification reflects most aspects of the analysis

6 - 11

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Ideas show some variation in approach or concept A limited design strategy, with minimal planning, is evident Some consideration taken of social, moral, environmental and sustainability issue in development of design solutions Development work is lacking in detail but makes reference to a number of techniques and modelling (including CAD where appropriate) Materials/ingredients and components selected with limited regard to their working properties Limited product/manufacturing specification which reflects most obvious features of analysis

Ideas are lacking in imagination with minimal development or further research Little evidence of a logical approach being adopted, with no indication of planning Development work shows little consideration of social, moral, environmental and sustainability issues Basic development work undertaken using a limited range of techniques Materials/ingredients and components selected with little regard to their working properties Produced a simple product/manufacturing specification which is general in nature

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Image Image Image Image Above is an example of a working drawing layout for a structural packaging product. Note the construction story board next to the net of the product.

The two layouts above show two development pages, the first shows four designs that have been modelled and analysed but are not necessarily connected to each other. Whilst the second shows the development of the design as a linear

process or step by step through the changes made to the design. Either approach is as valid as the other but you should remember to keep your folder concise and easy to follow.

This section of the project is also equal to nearly one third of the marks for the whole assignment, but the marks are awarded for both work in your design folder and the practical piece that you produce as your Final Design Proposal. Plan for Manufacture: This page of your design folder should consist of a flow chart detailing all the steps you plan on undertaking in order to successfully complete your practical task. When completing this you need to ensure you address the following points: It must be a flow chart using the correct symbols for each step and all decisions/checks must be labelled with feedback loops correctly applied. You must demonstrate your application of Quality Control and Quality Assurance through the inclusion of decision steps in your flow chart and notes on the page to justify their inclusion. Highlight areas of each making activity where health and Safety consideration will need to taken account of and explain how you intend to carry them out. Add in timings for each activity and incorporate contingency plans incase of unexpected events. Ensure that all of the stages are detailed but also concise, each one should be unambiguous yet only contain the information to carry out one task.

Diary of Making: This is the section of your design folder that requires you to document the stages of your manufacturing task and record the stages where you deviated from stages of your Plan for Manufacture. Whilst this section of a design folder is not a mandatory piece of work set down by the examination board, to achieve a successful project it greatly increases the chance of you accessing the higher grades as it helps your teacher to understand your decisions and award the maximum marks for your effort. The following points must be taken into consideration when completing this section of the design folder: Document the use of each tool and process during your practical activities and ensure that you fully justify why you chose them. This is especially true for tools and processes you did not plan to use. Explain and fully justify how and when you deviated from your Plan for Manufacture. Include the approximate timings for each of the stages of your making activity. Remember that your design folder must be concise, so this section should not be a lengthy discussion on each stage of the practical but a streamlined documentation of your practical activities.

Making

Making Activity: The marks for this section are based on the quality of the practical product you produce and your teachers observations of your performance during your Graphics lessons. It is also the part of the Controlled Assignment that most students lose marks on due to a lack of understanding of the requirements of the course. You will need to demonstrate all the theory and practical skills you have obtained throughout the course to produce a product based on your Final Design Proposal. When completing your practical task it is important to remember the following: Whilst the use of CAD/CAM facilities is expected through out the Controlled Assignment it is not mandatory for you to use it to complete your making activity. In fact it should only be used where it is appropriate to do so and the use of hand drawn graphics is something which teachers and moderators encourage. Look again at the products you used in your product analysis to help you understand the quality standards you should be aiming to reproduce. A large part of your marks will be based on the work your teacher sees you complete during your lessons, therefore taking work home to complete or avoiding

Quality Control Quality Assurance Health and Safety Above are three different ways to layout your Plan for Manufacture. Starting with a simple layout of a single flow chart supported by all the other parts separately on the page. Next is a layout showing how you could seperate out the different tasks into a flow chart for each . This has the benefit of keep each of the stages easy to read but often means key parts of an activity can be over looked as they fall in between two areas. Next to the flowcharts are all the supporting material. The final layout shows one flow chart that has been annotated to justify the decisions being made at each stage, achieving a more integrated, if somewhat busy, layout. Flow Flow Flow Flow Chart Chart Chart Chart Flow Chart Flow Chart

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discussions with your teacher regarding your progress or ways to improve your practical will make it harder for your teacher to give you all the marks your work deserves. To achieve the maximum mark you must ensure that your product could be produce commercially, which means you will have to have produced a product that has no quick fixes for the problems you encounter, such as taping up

edges to ensure that they hold together. In order for you to access the full range of marks you will be expected to show how a far higher level of independence than most students are used to when completing practical work. Whilst this means you should avoid getting other students to aid you in problem solving, your teacher should still be used to sound ideas off and get advice from. Testing

Always design within your capabilities. It is easy to let a design idea spiral out beyond your skills to manufacture it, which is where modelling all your design stages should have prepared you for making your practical piece. Dramatic last minute redesigns can therefore often lead to poorer products.

Mark Band 26 - 32

19 - 25

Final outcome(s) shows a high level of making/modelling/finishing skills and accuracy Selected and used appropriate tools, materials and/or technologies including, where appropriate, CAM correctly, skillfully and safely Worked independently to produce a rigorous and demanding outcome Quality controls are evident throughout the project and it is clear how accuracy has been achieved. The outcome has the potential to be commercially viable and is suitable for the target market

12 - 18

Final outcome shows very good level of making/modelling/finishing skills Selected and used appropriate tools, materials and/or technologies including, where appropriate, CAM correctly and safely Outcome demonstrates a high level of demand Quality control checks applied in the manufacture of the product The outcome is suitable for the target market and could be commercially viable with further development

6 - 11

Final outcome shows good level of making/modelling/finishing skills Used appropriate materials, components, equipment and processes correctly and safely (including CAM) Parts of outcome show high levels of demand Applied quality control checks broadly but superficially The outcome requires further development in order to be suitable for the target market Final outcome is largely complete and represents a basic level of making/modelling/finishing skills Used materials, components and equipment correctly and safely (including CAM if appropriate) Some aspects of outcome are demanding Some evidence of limited quality control applied throughout the process The outcome has some weaknesses which limit its suitability for the target market

0-5

Final outcome is incomplete or represents an undemanding level of making/modelling/finishing skills Used materials, components and equipment safely under close supervision Worked with some assistance to produce outcome of limited demand There is limited evidence of any quality control and levels of accuracy are minimal The outcome has significant weaknesses which limit its suitability for the target market

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Flow Image Flow Chart Chart Image Image Image The layout above shows a Diary of making where the students would be comparing each stage of the Plan to each of the actual tasks carried out. This can produce a larger design folder but gives excellent opportunities to analyse your methods.

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One way to layout your Diary of Making is to produce a simple story board of photographs and images from taken during your practical lessons. Ensure that all stages are annotated to justify your decisions.

This final layout is based around an image of the finished product with detailed images and annotation to explain the key making activities involved in the major features of the product. This allows for very interesting graphical work but can miss out important details.

This section of the mark scheme is designed to test your ability to identify the area of success and need for improvement in your work. Whilst the most obvious area of the design folder that is being scrutinised would be the evaluation of the final product there are other important areas of the folder that you will also gain or loss marks for: Design and Development: As has been identified in the previous section you are required to evaluate all your designs but carrying out the following will help you to maximise your score in this section: Create a tick list of all the criteria from your brief and specification that could apply to your design and use this to test each design 9 - 12

Testing and Evaluation

idea and development you produce. It will not only help you to identify which idea or development is most successful but give you statistical data to back it up. Ensure that you also evaluate the design against the criteria by justifying your decisions as to why the design met or failed the criteria. Never use the terms like or dislike when evaluating the work, these subjective terms have no bearing on the success of the design. Give justified reasons why the design is, or could be, successful or not. Where ever possible get the client or a suitable group of potential users for the product to give you their opinions and then analyse their opinions to identify areas for Testing and Evaluating

improvement. Do not be afraid to document unsuccessful designs. No teacher or moderator will believe that every design you came up with was perfect as this is not the nature of designing. You can only access the highest marks if you show you are capable of correcting working errors.

Evaluation of Final Outcome: The final page of your design folder must be dedicated to testing and evaluating your final product, if you do the following you should gain maximum marks: Use your Product Specification as a check list to test your final product, objectively justifying your decisions. Use the same client or group

Mark Band

6-8

Detailed testing and evaluation as appropriate throughout the designing and making process taking account of client/user or third party opinion All aspects of the final outcome have been tested against the design criteria and/or the product/ manufacturing specification Evaluate and justify the need for modifications to the product and consideration given as to how the outcome might need to be modified for commercial production Appropriate testing and evaluation evident throughout the designing and making process Most aspects of the final outcome have been tested against the design criteria and/ or the product/ manufacturing specification Evaluate and justify the need for improvements or modifications to the product

3-5 0-2

Evidence of some testing and evaluation leading to the production of the final outcome Some evidence of testing against the design criteria and/or the product/ manufacturing specification Some improvements or modifications to product suggested Minimal testing and evaluation throughout the designing and making process Limited or no testing of final outcome against the design criteria and/or the product/manufacturing specification Limited mention of some improvements or modifications that could be made to the product

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The first layout for an evaluation page is extremely straight forward, consisting of a box for each part of the evaluation and presents the product in the top left hand corner so that it is the first thing the reader sees. Whilst this can be effective it lacks an opportunity to show any real graphical skills,

The second layout also use boxes to layout each section but has added in images to illustrate key points made in the different sections of the evaluation, thus helping to justify the statements.

This final layout is intended to give the reader a more detailed exploration into the different parts of the product being evaluated. Done well it can give you an opportunity to produce a visually interesting piece of work, but can quickly become too buy and confusing.

of potential users to give you honest feedback on your product. Objectively analyse their response and suggest ways to fix any problems that have been identified. Identify and justify any areas of the product that would need further design work or improvements if its development were to be continued.

Use your understanding of the industrial processes to explain all the modification you would need to make to the design if you were to manufacture by a company. Where ever possible include detailed photographs to illustrate your points, especially photographs of your meeting with your client or group of potential users. Your spelling, punctuation and grammar will all be scrutinised so it is important that you do not rely on spell checking programmes to do this for you as they can easily cause simple mistakes to go unnoticed. Ensure that every design sheet you put in to your folder is consistently laid out with your name, candidate number, school name (The Heathland School), centre number (13160), Project title and page number on each one. Try to use as many of the drawing techniques that your teachers Communication

Remember that your folder must be concise and although this may seem like a good opportunity for you to show off your essay writing skills keeping each point short and succinct will gain you more marks. Use bullet points to break up lengthy evaluations and help to keep them easy to read.

The final section of the mark scheme is devoted to awarding those students who have show skill and control over their design folder by keeping the quality of their images and written work consistent and to a high standard. The following are all necessary if you wish to achieve full marks in this section: All images in your design folder should be of a high quality and you should never include images which have become burry due to poor resolution.

Communication

have to as possible. Only include work in the design folder that is relevant to your project, this is especially true of the research you include in your investigation section. You must use the correct technical terms for materials and processes, it is not good enough for you to state you will make your product from card, you must specify which type. All work must be submitted in an A3 format.

Mark Band 5-6

3-4 0-2

Design folder is focused, concise and relevant and demonstrates an appropriate selection of material for inclusion All decisions communicated in a clear and coherent manner with appropriate use of technical language The text is legible, easily understood and shows a good grasp of grammar, punctuation and spelling Design folder shows some skill in choice of material for inclusion but includes some irrelevant content Most decisions communicated with some clarity and with some use of technical language There are a small number of errors in grammar, punctuation and spelling

Design folder shows excessive duplication of information and a lack of brevity and focus resulting in irrelevant content Ideas and decisions communicated at a simplistic level with a limited grasp of the concepts involved and a limited use of technical vocabulary

Below you will find a brief explanation of the what the average students design folder should consist of. Remember this is in no mandatory but represents a design folder that, if completed properly should allow you to achieve maximum marks: Page 1: Design Brief, Task Analysis, user Group Profile. Pages 2 & 3: Product Analysis, followed by areas of research identified through the Analysis and the Design Specification. Page 4: Concept Sketches.

Pages 5, 6 & 7: Design Ideas and Models. Pages 8, 9 10 & 11: Development of solution including models. Page 12: Presentation of Final Solution. Page 13: Working Drawing and Constructional Details. Page 14: Plan for Manufacture. Page 15: Diary of Making. Page 16:Evaluation of Final Solution.

You may need to add in more pages to some of the sections due to the way you choose to lay them out or because you have very detailed stages of development etc. This is perfectly acceptable but remember that the examination board recommend that a good design folder should not need to be any longer than twenty pages of A3 paper.