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AOs/LOs by level

Technological practice (TP)

6-1 | 6-2 | 6-3

7-1 | 7-2 | 7-3

8-1 | 8-2 | 8-3

Technological knowledge (TK)

6-1 | 6-2 | 6-3

7-1 | 7-2 | 7-3

8-1 | 8-2 | 8-3

Nature of technology (NT)

6-1 | 6-2

7-1 | 7-2

8-1 | 8-2

Design in technology (DET)

6-1 | 6-2

7-1 | 7-2

8-1/2

Manufacturing (MFG)

6-1 | 6-2

7-1 | 7-2

8-1/2

Technical areas (TCA)

8-1 

Construction and mechanical technologies (CMT)

6-1 | 6-2 | 6-3 | 6-4

6-5 | 6-6 | 6-7

7-1 |  7-2 |  7-3 |  7-4

7-5 |  7-6 |  7-7

8-1 | 8-2 | 8-3 | 8-4

8-5 | 8-6 | 8-7

Design and visual communication (DVC)

6-1 | 6-2 | 6-3

7-1 | 7-2 | 7-3

8-1 | 8-2 | 8-3

Digital technologies (DTG)

6-1 | 6-2 | 6-3 | 6-4

6-5 | 6-6 | 6-7 | 6-8

6-9 | 6-10 | 6-11 | 6-12

7-1 |  7-2 |  7-3 |  7-4

7-5 |  7-6 |  7-7 |  7-8

7-9 |  7-10 |  7-11 |  7-12

8-1 | 8-2 | 8-3 | 8-4

8-5 |  8-6/7 | 8-8 | 8-9

8-10 |  8-11 | 8-12

Processing technologies (PRT)

6-1 | 6-2 | 6-3

7-1 | 7-2 | 7-3

8-1/2 | 8-3


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Achievement and learning objectives by level

For convenience, all achievement/learning objectives have been given a three-part code consisting of:

  1. 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. 
  2. the curriculum level
  3. 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

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.

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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