Achievement and learning objectives by level
For convenience, all achievement/learning objectives have been given a three-part code consisting of:
- the strand: Curriculum strands: TP for technological practice; TK for technological knowledge; NT for nature of technology. Specialist strands: DET for design in technology; MFG for manufacturing; CMT for construction and mechanical technologies; DVC for design and visual communication; DTG for digital technologies; PRT for processing technologies.
- the curriculum level
- the ordinal position of the achievement objective (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so on) as listed in the Curriculum, or of the learning objective to reflect its position in the list of components.
Level 6
In their selected context, students will be engaged in technological practice.
Technological practice (TP)
TP 6-1: Brief development
Students will:
- justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity and justify specifications in terms of key stakeholder feedback and wider community considerations.
TP 6-2: Planning for practice
Students will:
- critically analyse their own and others’ past and current planning practices in order to make informed selection and effective use of planning tools.
- Use these to support and justify ongoing planning that will see the development of an outcome through to completion.
TP 6-3: Outcome development and evaluation
Students will:
- critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes.
- Undertake ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, taking account of stakeholder feedback and trialling in the physical and social environments.
- Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop a final outcome.
- Evaluate this outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief and justify the evaluation using feedback from stakeholders.
Technological knowledge (TK)
TK 6-1: Technological modelling
Students will:
- Understand the role and nature of evidence and reasoning when managing risk through technological modelling.
TK 6-2: Technological products
Students will:
- Understand how materials are formed, manipulated, and transformed in different ways, depending on their properties, and understand the role of material evaluation in determining suitability for use in product development.
TK 6-3: Technological systems
Students will:
- Understand the implications of subsystems for the design, development, and maintenance of technological systems.
Nature of technology (NT)
NT 6-1: Characteristics of technology
Students will:
- Understand the interdisciplinary nature of technology and the implications of this for maximising possibilities through collaborative practice.
NT 6-2: Characteristics of technological outcomes
Students will:
- Understand that some technological outcomes can be perceived as both product and system.
- Understand how these outcomes impact on other outcomes and practices and on people’s views of themselves and possible futures.
Design in technology (DET)
DET 6-1: Knowledge of design
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of basic concepts in design
DET 6-2: Human factors in design
Students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of basic concepts and techniques related to human factors in design
Manufacturing (MFG)
MFG 6-1: Demonstrate understanding of advanced manufacturing concepts and techniques
Students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of basic manufacturing concepts and techniques
MFG 6-2: Implement a multi-unit manufacturing process
Students will:
- Implement a multi-unit manufacturing process
Construction and mechanical technologies (CMT)
CMT 6-1: Construct a resistant materials product
Students will:
- implement basic procedures to make a resistant materials product
CMT 6-2: Construct a textiles product
Students will:
- Implement basic procedures to make a textiles product.
CMT 6-3: Knowledge of resistant materials construction
Students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of basic techniques used to make resistant materials products
CMT 6-4: Knowledge of textiles construction
Students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of basic techniques used to make textile materials products
CMT 6-5: Knowledge of structures
Students will:
- Demonstrate understandings of basic structures
CMT 6-6: Knowledge of machines
Students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of basic concepts related to machines
CMT 6-7: Pattern making
Students will:
- Make basic adaptations to a pattern to enable a design to fit a person or item
Design and visual communication (DVC)
DVC 6-1: Visual communication
Students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of and skills in fundamental visual communication techniques
DVC 6-2: Graphics practice
Students will:
- Demonstrate ability to explore and develop design ideas by applying visual communication and design techniques in response to a brief
DVC 6-3: Knowledge of design practice
Students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of design principles and processes, and the work of influential designers
Digital technologies (DTG)
DTG 6-1: Knowledge of digital information management
Students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of basic digital information management tools and systems
DTG 6-2: Create a digital information outcome
Students will:
- Implement basic procedures to create a digital information outcome
DTG 6-3: Knowledge of digital media
Students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of basic concepts in digital media
DTG 6-4: Create a digital media outcome
Students will:
- Implement basic procedures to create a digital media outcome
DTG 6-5: Knowledge of computer science and software engineering
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of basic concepts in computer science and software engineering
DTG 6-6/7: Construct a software program
Students will:
- Demonstrate ability to design the structure of a basic software program
DTG 6-8: Knowledge of electronic environments
Students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of basic concepts and components in electronic environments
DTG 6-9: Develop an electronic environment
Students will:
- Demonstrate ability to develop a basic electronic environment
DTG 6-10: Assemble and test electronic and embedded systems
Students will:
- Demonstrate basic assembly and testing techniques used in electronic and embedded systems
DTG 6-11: Knowledge of digital infrastructure
Students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of digital infrastructure components
DTG 6-12: Design a digital infrastructure system
Students will:
- Select components for a single computer system for a specified purpose
Processing technologies (PRT)
PRT 6-1: Implement a process
Students will:
- Implement basic procedures to make a processed product
PRT 6-2: Knowledge of processing
Students will
- Demonstrate understanding of basic techniques involved in processing materials
PRT 6-3: Knowledge of product preservation, packaging and storage
Students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of basic concepts and techniques used in the preservation, packaging and storage of products
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Level 7
In their selected context, students will be engaged in technological practice.
Technological practice (TP)
TP 7-1: Brief development
Students will:
- justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the issue to be resolved and justify specifications in terms of key stakeholder feedback and wider community considerations.
TP 7-2: Planning for practice
Students will:
- critically analyse their own and others’ past and current planning and management practices in order to develop and employ project management practices that will ensure the effective development of an outcome to completion.
TP 7-3: Outcome development and evaluation
Students will:
- critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes and evaluative practices to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes.
- Undertake a critical evaluation that is informed by ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, stakeholder feedback, and trialling in the physical and social environments.
- Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop an outcome.
- Evaluate this outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief. Justify the evaluation using feedback from stakeholders and demonstrate a critical understanding of the issue.
Technological knowledge (TK)
TK 7-1: Technological modelling
Students will:
- understand how the “should” and “could” decisions in technological modelling rely on an understanding of how evidence can change in value across contexts and how different tools are used to ascertain and mitigate risk.
TK 7-2: Technological products
Students will:
- understand the concepts and processes employed in materials evaluation and the implications of these for design, development, maintenance, and disposal of technological products.
TK 7-3: Technological systems
Students will:
- understand the concepts of redundancy and reliability and their implications for the design, development, and maintenance of technological systems.
Nature of technology (NT)
NT 7-1: Characteristics of technology
Students will:
- understand the implications of ongoing contestation and competing priorities for complex and innovative decision making in technological development.
NT 7-2: Characteristics of technological outcomes
Students will:
- understand that technological outcomes are a resolution of form and function priorities and that malfunction affects how people view and accept outcomes.
Design in technology (DET)
DET 7-1: Knowledge of design
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts in design.
DET 7-2: Human factors in design
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts and techniques related to human factors in design.
Manufacturing (MFG)
MFG 7-1: Demonstrate understanding of advanced manufacturing concepts and techniques
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of advanced manufacturing concepts and techniques.
MFG 7-2: Implement a multi-unit manufacturing process
Students will:
- develop and implement an effective manufacturing process.
Construction and mechanical technologies (CMT)
CMT 7-1: Construct a resistant materials product
Students will:
- implement advanced procedures to make a resistant materials product.
CMT 7-2: Construct a textiles product
Students will:
- implement advanced procedures to make a textiles product.
CMT 7-3: Knowledge of resistant materials construction
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of advanced techniques used to make resistant materials products.
CMT 7-4: Knowledge of textiles construction
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of advanced techniques used to make textile materials products.
CMT 7-5: Knowledge of structures
Students will:
- demonstrate understandings of advanced structures.
CMT 7-6: Knowledge of machines
Students will:
- demonstrate understandings of advanced concepts related to machines.
CMT 7-7: Pattern making
Students will:
- make advanced adaptations to a pattern to change structural and/or style features of a design.
Design and visual communication (DVC)
DVC 7-1: Visual communication
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of and skills in advanced visual communication techniques to visually communicate and present detailed visual information.
DVC 7-2: Graphics practice
Students will:
- demonstrate ability to explore and develop design ideas by applying specialist visual communication and design knowledge and techniques in response to a brief.
DVC 7-3: Knowledge of design practice
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of design movements or eras.
Digital technologies (DTG)
DTG 7-1: Knowledge of digital information management
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of advanced digital information management tools and systems.
DTG 7-2: Create a digital information outcome
Students will:
- implement advanced procedures to create a digital information outcome with dynamically linked data.
DTG 7-3: Knowledge of digital media
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts in digital media.
DTG 7-4: Create a digital media outcome
Students will:
- implement advanced procedures to create a digital media outcome.
DTG 7-5: Knowledge of computer science and software engineering
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts in computer science and software engineering.
DTG 7-6/7: Construct a software program
Students will:
- demonstrate ability to design the structure of an advanced software program.
DTG 7-8: Knowledge of electronic environments
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts and components in electronic environments.
DTG 7-9: Develop an electronic environment
Students will:
- demonstrate ability to develop an advanced electronic environment.
DTG 7-10: Assemble and test electronic and embedded systems
Students will:
- demonstrate advanced assembly and testing techniques used in electronic and embedded systems.
DTG 7-11: Knowledge of digital infrastructure
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of LAN infrastructure systems.
DTG 7-12: Design a digital infrastructure system
Students will:
- select components and parameters for a local area network for a specified purpose.
Processing technologies (PRT)
PRT 7-1: Implement a process
Students will:
- implement advanced procedures to make a processed product.
PRT 7-2: Knowledge of processing
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of advanced techniques involved in processing materials.
PRT 7-3: Knowledge of product preservation, packaging and storage
Students will:
- demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts and techniques used in the preservation, packaging and storage of products.
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Level 8
In their selected context, students will be engaged in technological practice.
Technological practice (TP)
TP 8-1: Brief development
Students will:
- justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the context and the issue to be resolved
- justify specifications in terms of key stakeholder feedback and wider community considerations.
TP 8-2: Planning for practice
- Students will critically analyse their own and others’ past and current planning and management practices in order to develop and employ project management practices that will ensure the efficient development of an outcome to completion.
TP 8-3: Outcome development and evaluation
Students will:
- critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes and their determination of fitness for purpose in order to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes
- undertake a critical evaluation that is informed by on-going experimentation and functional modeling, stakeholder feedback, trialling in the physical and social environments, and an understanding of the issue as it relates to the wider context
- use the information gained to select, justify, and develop an outcome
- evaluate this outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief
- justify the evaluation using feedback from stakeholders and demonstrating a critical understanding of the issue that takes account of all contextual dimensions.
Technological knowledge (TK)
TK 8-1: Technological modeling
- Students will understand the role of technological modeling as a key part of technological development, justifying its importance on moral, ethical, sustainable, cultural, political, economic, and historical grounds.
TK 8-2: Technological products
- Students will understand the concepts and processes employed in materials development and evaluation and the implications of these for design, development, maintenance, and disposal of technological products.
TK 8-3: Technological systems
- Students will understand operational parameters and their role in the design, development, and maintenance of technological systems.
Nature of technology (NT)
NT 8-1: Characteristics of technology
- Students will understand the implications of technology as intervention by design and how interventions have consequences, known and unknown, intended and unintended.
NT 8-2: Characteristics of technological outcomes
- Students will understand how technological outcomes can be interpreted and justified as fit for purpose in their historical, cultural, social, and geographical locations.
Design in technology (DET)
DET 8-1/2: Knowledge of design
- Students will demonstrate understanding of complex concepts in design.
Manufacturing (MFG)
MFG 8-1/2: Implement a green multi-unit manufacturing process
- Students will develop understanding of, and implement, a ‘green’ manufacturing process.
Technical areas (TCA)
TCA 8-1: Knowledge of technical areas
Students can:
- explain the technical ideas that have led to the development of technical areas and how these ideas, and the area, have changed over time
- discuss current limitations and opportunities of technical areas in relation to specific fields
- debate the feasibility of future developments as related to changes to the technical area and/or to changes to the field in which it is applied.
Construction and mechanical technologies (CMT)
CMT 8-1: Construct a resistant materials product
- Students will implement complex procedures to make a resistant materials product.
CMT 8-2: Construct a textiles product
- Students will implement complex procedures to make a textiles product.
CMT 8-3: Construct a specified product using CNC machines
- Students will implement complex procedures to make a specified product using a Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machine.
CMT 8-4: Create an applied design
- Students will implement complex procedures to create an applied design for a specified product.
CMT 8-5: Knowledge of structures
- Students will demonstrate understandings of complex structures.
CMT 8-6: Knowledge of machines
- Students will demonstrate understandings of complex concepts related to machines.
CMT 8-7: Pattern making
- Students will draft a pattern to interpret a design for a garment.
Design and visual communication (DVC)
DVC 8-1: Visual communication
- Students will demonstrate understanding of, and skills in, complex visual communication techniques to visually communicate and promote the intent and details of design ideas.
DVC 8-2: Graphics practice
- Students will demonstrate ability to integrate design knowledge and drawing techniques to develop and communicate a conceptual design to address a brief through graphics practice.
DVC 8-3: Knowledge of design practice
- Students will demonstrate understanding of approaches to design practice and the nature of designer thinking.
Digital technologies (DTG)
DTG 8-1: Knowledge of digital information management
- Students will demonstrate understanding of complex concepts of information systems in an organisation.
DTG 8-2: Create a digital information outcome
- Students will implement complex procedures to develop a relational database embedded in a specified digital outcome.
DTG 8-3: Knowledge of digital media
- Students will demonstrate understanding of complex concepts of digital media.
DTG 8-4: Create a digital media outcome
- Students will implement complex procedures to create a digital media outcome.
DTG 8-5: Knowledge of computer science and software engineering
- Students will demonstrate understanding of areas of computer science.
DTG 8-6/7: Construct a software program
- Students will develop a complex computer program for a specified task.
DTG 8-8: Knowledge of electronic environments
- Students will demonstrate understanding of complex concepts and components in electronic environments.
DTG 8-9: Develop an electronic environment
Students will:
- to be developed when level 3 achievement standards are finalised for registration
- demonstrate an ability to develop a complex electronic environment.
DTG 8-10: Assemble and test electronic and embedded systems
- Students will demonstrate complex assembly and testing techniques used in complex electronic and embedded systems.
DTG 8-11: Knowledge of digital infrastructure
- Students will demonstrate understanding of WAN infrastructure systems.
DTG 8-12: Design a digital infrastructure system
- Students will select components and topology for a wide area network for a specified purpose.
Processing technologies (PRT)
PRT 8-1/2: Implement a process
- Students will implement complex procedures to make a processed product.
PRT 8-3: Knowledge of product preservation, packaging and storage
- Students will demonstrate understanding of complex concepts and techniques used in the preservation, packaging and storage of products.
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