Internal Assessment: Design Project - Design Technology - 2019-2021
Internal Assessment: Design Project - Design Technology - 2019-2021
Internal Assessment: Design Project - Design Technology - 2019-2021
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT
INTRODUCTION- HELPSHEET
The internal assessment (IA) requirement is worth 40% of the final assessment and consists of one
design project. Student work is internally assessed by the teacher and externally moderated by the IB.
The performance in IA at both SL and HL is marked against four common assessment criteria, with an
additional two assessment criteria for HL.
The internal assessment requirements at SL and at Internal assessment is an integral part of the
HL are different: design technology course, contributing 40% to the
• the first four assessment criteria (A–D) are final assessment in the SL and the HL courses.
common between SL and HL; This weighting should be reflected in the time that
• however, at HL, design projects have additional is allocated to teaching the knowledge, skills and
Requirements, which are assessed using two understanding required to undertake the work, as
additional criteria (E and F). well as the total time allocated to carry out the
work. It is recommended that a total of
approximately 40 hours (SL)and 60 hours (HL)
SL – HL DIFFERENCE should be allocated to the work.
GUIDANCE
INNOVATION
A distinction is typically made between invention (an idea may manifest) and innovation (ideas applied
successfully) -McKeown 2008. The term innovation globally means: a new way of doing something. It
may refer to incremental or radical changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. The goal of
innovation is: positive change to the human condition to make someone or something better.
• Sustaining innovation: small changes to the For the IA, it is good practice to develop ideas upon
concept to improve an aspect of it. For example: existing concepts, possibly combining principles
changing its basic shape. A new or improved and functionality of different innovations and
product that meets the needs of consumers and technologies, to create solutions for the identified
sustains manufacturers. problem.
• Disruptive innovation: a change to the concept Configurational innovation would be the hardest
itself. A new way of addressing a problem or one to achieve, since you have no multidisciplinary
need. A product or type of technology that team available.
challenges existing companies to ignore or
embrace technical change. 1. Modular innovation: the basic configuration
stays the same, but one or more key components
are changed/ improved/added. Adding
SOCIAL DESIGN novelty components to improve/change
functionality.
Within the design world, social design is sometimes
defined as a design process that contributes to 2. Architectural innovation: the technology and
improving human well-being and livelihood. It is the functionality of the components stays the same,
idea that designers have a responsibility and are but the configuration of the components is
able to cause real change in the world through changed to produce a new design. Putting existing
responsible design. Designers can contribute to components together in novel ways.
designing more ecological products by carefully
selecting the materials they use and designing for 3. Configurational innovation (really hard to
people‟s needs rather than their wants. achieve):changes are made in both technology and
organization. Introduces a new meaning, way of
doing, potentially a paradigm shift.
AREA’S OF SOCIAL DESIGN
The following headers, including corresponding • Work on A4-format. A4-pages should be portrait.
content, must be present in your IA (in the same • SL: approximately 34 A4-pages, maximum 38
order): pages, and no more than 3000 words.(Please read
1. Problem statement criteria wise word limit at the end of the document)
2. Design brief • HL: approximately 52 A4-pages, maximum 56
3. Design specification pages, and no more than 4000 words. (Please read
4. Feasible ideas criteria wise word limit at the end of the document)
5. Concept modeling • Font: Arial.
6. Justification of the final idea • Size: 11 pt.
7. Materials and manufacturing techniques • Handwritten work (in drawings) should be more
8. Design proposal or less the same size as Arial 11 pt. and should be
9. Plan for manufacture easily readable (use capitals).
10. Testing strategy • Headers should be in bold.
11. Evaluation against the design specification • Do not add a title page.
12. Suggesting improvements • Do not add a content page.
13. Development of a commercial product [HL] • Do not add appendices. Appendices are not
14. Presentation of the commercial product [HL] allowed: examiners will not read them or any
15. Design proposal for the commercial product[HL] information contained within them.
16. Justification of materials and components for • Make sure that if you add scans of drawings that
commercial production [HL] they are clearly visible, not taken out of proportion
17. Justification of manufacturing techniques for and that annotations do not exceed 10 words and
commercial production [HL] are easily readable.
18. Justification of scale and volume of production • Add page numbers.
for commercial production [HL]
19. Works cited
Do not add more or different headers!
IMPORTANT! ANNOTATIONS
• Place no references to the school in the
document, so that IB can revise it anonymously. • Annotations must not be more than 10 words
• Make sure that everything is spelled correctly each. Any annotation more than 10 words will
and that the structure of each sentence is correct. be considered as counting towards the word count.
Have someone else read it to check. • Annotations must be legible, preferably typed.
• Never draw conclusions yourself, out of the blue. Students and teachers should ensure annotations
These must always be substantiated with evidence can be read clearly.
(and their corresponding sources). • Handwritten annotations must be clear and
• Do not plagiarize. If you quote someone you equivalent to Arial font size 11pt. To ensure clarity
always state this. Make sure you write the rest of when scanned, black ink is strongly recommended.
the text in your own words.
• Always cite the sources you used. Use MLA8.
• An authenticity check (using turnitin.com or
similar) will be carried out on the final draft to be
assessed.
HOW TO CITE?
Works cited:
• Kumar, Raksha. “„Help Desks‟, India: staying in
class made easier for rural children.” Impact
Journalism Day, date unknown.
http://impactjournalismday.
com/story/help-desk/ Accessed
14 February 2019.
Figure 1. Shov Kapur Varun, “Delhi Metro and CNG Buses in
Azadpur Neighborhood”, 2012.
FOR A BOOK
Works cited:
In-text citation: • Varun, Shov Kapur. “Delhi Metro and CNG Buses
• There are five distinct stages in the history of in Azadpur Neighborhood”. Creative Commons,
depression 12 Aug. 2012,
(Solomon 285). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
• Solomon wonders whether episodes of violence by/2.0. Accessed 14 February 2019.
are connected to depression (103).
• “There are stalwarts to whom such emotional
insight is meaningless” (Solomon 103).
Works cited:
• Solomon, Andrew. “The Noonday Demon: An
Atlas of Depression.” Simon & Schuster, 2002.
The following screenshots are taken from DT TSM, MY IB, first assessment May 2020.
STANDARD LEVEL
HIGHER LEVEL
First four criteria (A-D) are same for HL, followed by E & F.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• International Baccalaureate Organization.“Diploma Programme Design technology guide
- First assessment 2020”. International BaccalaureateOrganization, published March 2014,
updated June 2018.
• International Baccalaureate Publishing. “Designtechnology teacher support material”.
International Baccalaureate Organization,date unknown, https://ibpublishing.ibo.org/
server2/rest/app/tsm.xql?doc=d_4_deste_tsm_1410_1_e&part=1&chapter=1, Accessed
March 2020.
• Trumpold, Ruth. “Design Tech for IB students”.Date unknown, http://www.ruthtrumpold.id.au/
destech/, Accessed March 2020.
•Steffie Ballemans; MYP Design and DP Design Technology teacher at the International School
Eindhoven.