Business Quest Unit: Design Stage

In this stage you will generate several feasible designs for your product that meet the design specification and then evaluate each design against the design specification. 

Once the good quality designs have been generated, one design should be selected, justified and evaluated against the design specification.

NB: At the design stage, students are encouraged to develop their initial drawings with clips or screen shots from sources that may visually enhance their ideas/solutions. 
 

Note below the feedback extract from the moderation report on Design Stage

The comparatively good students produced very clear and well-annotated design proposals. However, overall students did not show a wide range of ideas, which is necessary to reach the higher band levels. Again, ideas were mostly pencil drawings and may have been improved by including samples from various sources that could be used as part of their product/solution. 

Resources for referencing
https://sites.google.com/site/stevensonstechnologyclassroom/design-cycle/criterion-b-design

Website Tuck Design Sample

https://sites.google.com/a/westlakeacademy.org/teachers/Home/spanish-tech-g7/finishingdesignstage

http://iss.schoolwires.com/cms/lib4/NC01000579/Centricity/Domain/1993/Sample04_Design_en.pdf

Levels

	Task Specific Descriptor
0	The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors given below.
1-2	The student generates one design, and makes some attempt to justify this against the design specification.
3-4	The student generates a few designs, justifying the choice of one design and fully evaluating this against the design specification.
5-6	The student generates a range of feasible designs, each evaluated against the design specification. The student justifies the chosen design and evaluates it fully and critically against the design specification.