Design and Technology

Assessment

1) Internal Assessment Project (40%) All standard and higher-level students complete a design project as an internal assessment task. This design project allows them to demonstrate their investigative, analytical, design thinking, design development, prototyping, testing and evaluation skills and mirrors the design processes used across the various industries that integrate design practice. • At SL, the IA project requires students to identify a problem and develop a solution. It is assessed against four common criteria: a) Analysis of a design opportunity b) Conceptual design c) Development of a detailed design d) Testing and evaluation • At HL, the IA project is extended to include aspects of Innovation and is assessed against two additional criteria: e) Detailed development of a commercial product f) Making choices for commercial production. 2) Examined Assessment (60%) The standard level course is assessed through: • A multiple-choice paper (Paper 1) • A core paper, which consists of a short response and extended answer questions (Paper 2) • The internal assessment design project At a higher level, Paper one has more questions, and students answer an additional paper (Paper 3) consisting of three structured questions based on the HL extension material, one of which is based on a case study.