
GCSE Product Design
Controllled Assessment

/developing
The developing section is worth 32 marks.
You should use a range of sketching, modelling, and CAD to develop your design into your final product. It is important to achieve the higher grades that you annotate (comment) on your designs and question yourself throughout. Make sure you call upon and use your research to help you develop your design, it is important for the higher grades that you show that you have used your research to inform your design decisions. It will be made up of the following pages:
8. Initial Ideas
9. Initial Ideas Evaluations
10. Design Development
11. Modelling & CAD
12. MESS Issues
13. Final Design & Cutting List
14. Orthographic Drawing
To get 26-32 marks (B-A*) in this section you must demonstrate the following:
I have developed imaginative and innovative ideas, demonstrating creativity, flair and originality.
I have made lots of further developments because of ongoing research.
I have planned and used a clear and appropriate design strategy throughout.
I have shown that I have considered the implications of a wide range of features including social, moral, environmental and sustainability issues before finalizing my design proposal.
I have evidenced excellent development work through experimentation with a wide variety of modelling to produce a final design solution.
The information I have provided would allow someone else to be able to fully make my product.
I have selected appropriate materials/ingredients and components and explained their working properties in some detail.
I have provided a fully detailed product/manufacturing specification and justified this from my analysis.
To get 19-25 marks (D-B) in this section you must demonstrate the following:
I have developed imaginative ideas demonstrating a degree of creativity.
I have made some further developments because of ongoing research.
I have planned and used an appropriate design strategy.
I have shown that I have considered the main features relating to a variety of social, moral, environmental and sustainability issues before finalizing my design proposal.
I have evidenced good development work through working with a variety of modelling to produce a final design solution .
The information I have provided would allow someone else to be able to make the most important parts of my product.
I have selected appropriate materials/ingredients and components and explained their working properties.
I have provided a product/manufacturing specification which is complete and links to the key aspects of my analysis.
To get 12-18 marks (F-D) in this section you must demonstrate the following:
I have evidenced some design ideas which show some degree of creativity and further development.
I have planned and used an appropriate design strategy for some of my work.
I have shown that I have considered a range of features relating to social, moral, environmental and sustainability issues before finalizing my design proposal.
I have evidenced some development work through working with a range of modelling to produce a final design solution.
The information I have provided would allow someone else to be able to make most of my product.
I have selected materials/ingredients and components with some consideration of their working properties.
I have provided a product/manufacturing specification which links to most parts of my analysis.
To get 6-11 marks (G-F) in this section you must demonstrate the following:
I have evidenced some ideas which are fairly different to each other.
I have not planned and used a design strategy with much of my work. I have shown that I have considered some aspects relating to social, moral, environmental and sustainability issues before finalizing my design proposal.
I have evidenced some development work which includes some modelling.
The information I have provided would allow someone else to be able to make some parts of my product.
I have selected materials/ingredients and components with limited consideration of their working properties.
I have provided a limited product/manufacturing specification which reflects the most obvious features of my analysis.
To get 0-5 marks (U) in this section you must demonstrate the following:
I have evidenced ideas that are lacking in imagination with minimal development or further research.
I have not planned my design work and there is little evidence of a logical approach being used.
I have evidenced development work which shows little consideration of social, moral, environmental and sustainability issues.
I have evidenced basic development work using a limited range of techniques.
I have selected materials/ingredients and components selected with little regard to their working properties.
I have produced a simple product/manufacturing specification which has some general considerations.