From design brief to finished textile item, with the techniques that make it wearable or usable.
These are the statements the Textiles and Design Year 9 syllabus makes about Design and Construction. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Design brief and inspiration - Design and Construction, Year 9.
Pattern adaptation and fitting - Design and Construction, Year 9.
Cutting and layout - Design and Construction, Year 9.
Seams and seam finishes - Design and Construction, Year 9.
Fastenings and closures - Design and Construction, Year 9.
Surface decoration - Design and Construction, Year 9.
Embroidery and embellishment - Design and Construction, Year 9.
Quality finishing - Design and Construction, Year 9.
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Design and Construction are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Textiles and Design Year 9 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Design and Construction is module 2 of 3 in Textiles and Design Year 9. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Textiles and Design Year 9 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.