WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT
CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT HOMEWORK
WEEK 1- Have a look at the Design Situation, Target Market and Design Brief page, on the below coursework guidance powerpoint, that you will complete next week. Have a practice at putting all the information down for each section on a sheet of paper, you must bring this to the next lesson!
WEEK 2- Look through your controlled assessment guide and brainstorm any issues that you can think of to do with your project.
WEEK 3- Now that you have highlighted what research you need to carry out, you can research all areas. By next week you should have input components researched. All of your research needs to be carried out by Friday 4th March.
WEEK 4- Complete the component research for next week, (inputs/process blocks and outputs). As a guide you need to research six components/blocks from each section - 18 in total. Ongoing you need to be researching all of the areas that you highlighted in your 'Things I need to Research' list.
WEEK 5- CONTINUE TO CARRY OUT YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH. For next week you need to work on Page 5 of your coursework 'Product Analysis and Product Disassembly' . Search the internet for images of relevant similar products, copy them into your coursework and analyse/evaluate the useful information that you find out. Carry out a product disassembly of a 'battery-powered Electronic Product', copy photographs onto page 5 and analyse the information that you gain from this. Help is given in the updated powerpoint below.
WEEK 6/7- CONTINUE TO CARRY OUT YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH. All work needs to be completed up to and including the questionnaire/survey of your target market. Remember the quality of your annotations/descriptions/ analysis and evaluation on each of your pages is the most important part of your work. keep all work relevant and condensed. Remember all research needs to be handed in by the 4th March.
WEEK 8- Having completed your research you now need to review your research findings and complete a 'Research Evaluation' page. Focus on answers to the questions and decisions you needed to find out about at the start of your project, i.e. the analysis section at the start of your project.
WEEK 9- Complete a 'Systems Analysis' of the possible circuit components and circuit blocks that could make up your circuit.
WEEK 10- Complete a 'Design Specification' for your project. This will focus on what your project must, should and could do, be like, function, perform etc. It is usual to put the Specification as a list of points. Remember to make the point and justify why it is important, e.g. the product must weigh no more than 1Kg, so that it can be moved around easily by the user - portable.
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