Purpose
Achievement Criteria
Explanatory Note 1
Develop a digital technologies outcome involves:
- describing the purpose, potential users, requirements, and specifications of the outcome
- using appropriate tools or techniques of a digital technologies domain to produce an outcome that addresses the requirements and specifications
- testing the outcome to ensure basic functionality.
Refine a digital technologies outcome involves:
- following conventions relevant to the tools or techniques of a digital technologies domain
- using information from testing to make improvements to the outcome’s fitness for purpose.
Enhance a digital technologies outcome involves:
- applying tools or techniques optimally in the production of a fit-for-purpose outcome
- using information from trialling the outcome with others to improve its fitness for purpose.
Explanatory Note 2
In Digital Technologies, an outcome demonstrating fitness for purpose is one that addresses the requirements and specifications, considers the potential users and context, and performs as intended.
Explanatory Note 3
Testing refers to the student examining their own outcome, or parts of it.
Trialling refers to having other people use the outcome, or parts of it, to make determinations of its suitability for users. This process should include end user(s).
Explanatory Note 4
Conventions are established practices within the chosen digital technologies domain.
Explanatory Note 5
Optimally refers to the student having applied tools or techniques in the best way practicable for a particular task.
Shared Explanatory Note
Refer to the NCEA glossary for Māori, Pacific, and further subject-specific terms and concepts.
This achievement standard is derived from the Technology Learning Area at Level 6 of The New Zealand Curriculum: Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2007.
Conditions of Assessment
Student work which has received sustained or detailed feedback is not suitable for submission towards this Standard. Assessor involvement during the assessment is limited to providing general feedback on aspects of the work that the student may need to revisit.
Evidence for this Standard will be evident in the outcome itself and through additional forms of evidence that can include:
- annotated screenshots
- audio or video recordings, or screencasts
- planning boards
- testing documentation (such as testing tables)
- images
- written descriptions of what they have done and why (such as specifications).
Submissions should consist of no more than five A4 pages or no more than 3 minutes of video or audio. Selection of evidence for submission is to be carried out by the student.
Evidence for all parts of this assessment can be in te reo Māori, English, or New Zealand Sign Language.
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Unpacking the Standard
Mātauranga Māori constitutes concepts and principles that are richly detailed, complex, and fundamental to Māoridom. It is important to remember that the practice of these are wider and more varied than their use within the proposed NCEA Achievement Standards and supporting documentation.
We also recognise that the cultures, languages, and identities of the Pacific Islands are diverse, varied, and unique. Therefore the Pacific concepts, contexts, and principles that have been incorporated within NCEA Achievement Standards may have wide-ranging understandings and applications across and within the diversity of Pacific communities. It is not our intention to define what these concepts mean but rather offer some ways that they could be understood and applied within different subjects that kaiako and students alike can explore.
Mātauranga Māori constitutes concepts and principles that are richly detailed, complex, and fundamental to Māoridom. It is important to remember that the practice of these are wider and more varied than their use within the proposed NCEA Achievement Standards and supporting documentation.
We also recognise that the cultures, languages, and identities of the Pacific Islands are diverse, varied, and unique. Therefore the Pacific concepts, contexts, and principles that have been incorporated within NCEA Achievement Standards may have wide-ranging understandings and applications across and within the diversity of Pacific communities. It is not our intention to define what these concepts mean but rather offer some ways that they could be understood and applied within different subjects that kaiako and students alike can explore.
The intent of the Standard
This Standard assesses how well ākonga can use a technological process to develop a digital technologies outcome.
A digital technologies outcome is developed using digital tools or techniques. It may be partly physical or wholly digital. There are many potential outcomes, examples of which include:
- a digital media outcome such as a webpage or 3D model
- an electronics outcome such as an environmental monitoring system, wearable tech, or robot
- a digital information outcome such as a database.
Ākonga will make optimal use of a range of domain-appropriate tools or techniques to develop the outcome. They will make deliberate development choices based on testing before trialling their outcome with others.
Making reliable judgements
For this Standard, ākonga will identify the purpose, potential users, requirements, and specifications, of a digital technologies outcome.
Understanding the purpose and potential users will allow ākonga to make informed decisions during development to support the outcome to function effectively.
Requirements describe things that need to be done or included, and specifications are measurable criteria that are more technical in nature. For example, a requirement might be that the interface should work for users on different browsers, whereas a specification might be that the interface should display correctly on three specific browsers identified by ākonga.
Appropriate tools or techniques, the conventions relevant to them, and the nature of their optimal use will vary depending on the digital technologies domain that is the focus of the digital technologies outcome. Kaiako should include examples in the Assessment Schedule to indicate benchmarks to ākonga being assessed against this Standard.
Testing refers to ākonga examining their own outcome, or parts of it. Trialling refers to having other people use the outcome, or parts of it, to make determinations of its suitability for users. The trialling process should include end user(s) and could be a collaborative one: wānanga and talanoa could be used for this. It is preferred that ākonga do not create the outcome for themselves.
Collecting evidence
The complexity of the outcome developed must be appropriate for Level 6 of The New Zealand Curriculum. The outcome developed for this Standard may not also be assessed for AS92004 Create a computer program.
Before embarking on development ākonga should have planned what it is they will be working towards.
Plans are not assessed as part of this Standard.
Ākonga will ensure that the outcome they develop is fit for purpose.
Possible contexts
A Digital Technologies outcome is developed using digital tools and may be partly physical or wholly digital. There are opportunities to apply mātauranga Māori, for example in exploring pūrākau or pakiwaitara as examples of stories that could be represented digitally. Outcomes may be fit-for-purpose solutions in a local context (eg a sports club) or a context of significance to individual ākonga.
The intent of the Standard
This Standard assesses how well ākonga can use a technological process to develop a digital technologies outcome.
A digital technologies outcome is developed using digital tools or techniques. It may be partly physical or wholly digital. There are many potential outcomes, examples of which include:
- a digital media outcome such as a webpage or 3D model
- an electronics outcome such as an environmental monitoring system, wearable tech, or robot
- a digital information outcome such as a database.
Ākonga will make optimal use of a range of domain-appropriate tools or techniques to develop the outcome. They will make deliberate development choices based on testing before trialling their outcome with others.
Making reliable judgements
For this Standard, ākonga will identify the purpose, potential users, requirements, and specifications, of a digital technologies outcome.
Understanding the purpose and potential users will allow ākonga to make informed decisions during development to support the outcome to function effectively.
Requirements describe things that need to be done or included, and specifications are measurable criteria that are more technical in nature. For example, a requirement might be that the interface should work for users on different browsers, whereas a specification might be that the interface should display correctly on three specific browsers identified by ākonga.
Appropriate tools or techniques, the conventions relevant to them, and the nature of their optimal use will vary depending on the digital technologies domain that is the focus of the digital technologies outcome. Kaiako should include examples in the Assessment Schedule to indicate benchmarks to ākonga being assessed against this Standard.
Testing refers to ākonga examining their own outcome, or parts of it. Trialling refers to having other people use the outcome, or parts of it, to make determinations of its suitability for users. The trialling process should include end user(s) and could be a collaborative one: wānanga and talanoa could be used for this. It is preferred that ākonga do not create the outcome for themselves.
Collecting evidence
The complexity of the outcome developed must be appropriate for Level 6 of The New Zealand Curriculum. The outcome developed for this Standard may not also be assessed for AS92004 Create a computer program.
Before embarking on development ākonga should have planned what it is they will be working towards.
Plans are not assessed as part of this Standard.
Ākonga will ensure that the outcome they develop is fit for purpose.
Possible contexts
A Digital Technologies outcome is developed using digital tools and may be partly physical or wholly digital. There are opportunities to apply mātauranga Māori, for example in exploring pūrākau or pakiwaitara as examples of stories that could be represented digitally. Outcomes may be fit-for-purpose solutions in a local context (eg a sports club) or a context of significance to individual ākonga.
Standard Exclusions
This Standard has one or more exclusions, or Standards that assess the same or similar learning. These Standards are excluded against one another to prevent assessing the same learning twice. You can only use credits gained from one of these standards towards your NCEA qualification.
Find out more about the NCEA Level 1 Exclusions List.
Standard Exclusions
This Standard has one or more exclusions, or Standards that assess the same or similar learning. These Standards are excluded against one another to prevent assessing the same learning twice. You can only use credits gained from one of these standards towards your NCEA qualification.
Find out more about the NCEA Level 1 Exclusions List.