Design Project Development
A full design project: brief, research, development, production and evaluation.
- Client brief and stakeholder analysis
- Functional and non-functional requirements
- Research methods and sources
NSW Design and Technology Years 9-10 (Stage 5, Year 9) - design project development, emerging technologies, sustainability in design - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Design and Technology Year 9” 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.
A full design project: brief, research, development, production and evaluation.
New tools and materials, what they make possible, and what they displace.
Designing with the whole lifecycle in mind, and defending the trade-offs.
A Design and Technology Year 9 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 9 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.