Design and the Design Process
From a need to a tested solution: brief, research, ideas and evaluation.
- Needs, problems and design opportunities
- Writing a design brief
- Research and user needs
NSW Design and Technology Years 7-8 (Stage 4, Year 7) - design and the design process, materials and making, digital design - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Design and Technology Year 7” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
From a need to a tested solution: brief, research, ideas and evaluation.
Working with real materials safely, and finishing work to a standard.
Designing and making with digital tools, including the code behind them.
A Design and Technology Year 7 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–5 |
| describe | Short answer | 2–3 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 4–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| select | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 7 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.