What you need to know

Mark Breakdown

40%

60%

Exam

Controlled Assessment

What is the Controlled Assessment

• Design and Technology Controlled Assessment is 60% of the overall GCSE grade

• Consists of two parts

– Design Folder – Showing the process of Designing a product

– Made Object – Fully working 1:1 scale example of the Product designed.

• Marked Internally and Moderated Externally

What needs to be done? • Using the Design Process

– Thinking of a Design Problem – Researching the Problem and existing solutions – Writing a Specification from the Research – Idea Generation – Ideas Analysis against the Specification – Development of a selected Idea – Final Working Design Drawings – Planning for Production – Manufacture of a fully working product – Testing against the Specification – Evaluation of the project

Is there loads of Writing then?

• Pupils will need to complete a design folder

• Can include drawings, written work, word processing, CAD Drawings, 3D Models

• Students will spend from Easter to October Half term designing, planning and reviewing.

– This time includes modeling

Timings • Coursework – Starts with Idea Presentation first week of

Summer Term 2015 (20/04/15) • Final Deadline Easter 2016 (24/04/16) • Designing and Making Project should take 40 hours (On

Task time)

– 20 Hours Researching, Designing, Improving and Planning – 20 Hours Making, Testing and Evaluating – Final Deadline Easter 2016 (24/04/16)

• Allowance for revision sessions during Mock exams in Nov

2015, Theory Sessions and Final Revision for the exam from Easter 2016

What about can I make for my Controlled Assessment Project?

• The Exam board require that each project fits into one of the following topics;

• Storage

• Lighting

• Furniture

• Leisure

• Outdoors

What have people made before?

• Previous Major Projects have included – Long boards – Chairs – Acrylic/Wooden guitars and stands – Bee Hives – Metal tool boxes – Chess sets – Rabbit Hutch – Book shelves – Jewellery Box – Storage systems

How can we help from home?

– Suggest some Ideas for projects

– Some Research work can be carried out at home and brought in to be written up on the final sheets

– Materials – more exotic wood and materials are difficult for the school to purchase, if there is something your pupils really wants to use you might consider assisting them to buy them (however we recommend that you set a strict budget, Materials used do not count towards the making marks, they are marked on the skills used.)

– They will be unable to bring Controlled Assessment work home but you can support them by encouraging to after school sessions (currently a Thursday after school)

Where can I find out more?

• Our exam board is currently Edexcel

– Search for Edexcel resistant materials GCSE

• Talk to your Technology Teacher about the Course

• Talk to year 9, 10 or 11 students who have taken the course.