At the end of this unit
most pupils will: give reasons for their choice of role within a team; link the development of a product to users' needs and explain any changes to the design proposal; make effective use of a range of strategies to generate design ideas, including modelling to explore and test their thinking; use a range of techniques skilfully during trialling and production; work from detailed plans that they have produced; adapt their methods of manufacture to changing circumstances that batch or volume production requires; understand the importance of quality assurance and control; evaluate how they have achieved their original design proposals and make recommendations for further development of the product
some pupils will not have made so much progress and will: explain why different roles are needed in a team; identify some users' needs; clarify their ideas through discussion and modelling and give reasons for choosing between ideas; produce a step-by-step plan and communicate alternative ideas; work safely and with some accuracy with a range of resources; show an awareness of quality assurance and control; compare their product with the design specification and identify successful and weak parts of their work
some pupils will have progressed further and will: describe accurately how team members can be organised to suit their skills and abilities; identify a product to be made; show a good understanding of how their product could be produced in the required quantity and to the required quality, and users' safety needs, when generating ideas; develop detailed criteria for their designs and use these to formulate design proposals; produce realistic and appropriate ideas to meet their specifications, noting sensible reasons for choosing their ideas; communicate in some detail the planned making processes; explain how quality control and assurance procedures were developed and applied; and record judgements about quality assurance; choose and use suitable criteria (including user opinion and practical testing) to evaluate the performance of their design ideas and their product in development, and implement suggested improvements
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