NZQA Expiring unit standard
7495 version 6
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Title
Apply design development and evaluation techniques
Level
3
Credits
4
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify
design development requirements; produce developed design
solution; and evaluate and verify developed design.
Classification
Design > Generic Design
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
This unit standard may be used to award credit for the achievement of learning outcomes
consistent with Technology in the New Zealand Curriculum (Learning Media Wellington,
1995).
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Identify design development requirements.
Evidence requirements
1.1
1.2
1.3
This unit standard is
Analysis of conceptual designs identifies potential solutions in relation to the
expiring
design brief.
Resources and information gathered enable further development of the design
brief.
Design development areas identified are relevant to the design brief.
Outcome 2
Produce developed design solution.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Design development techniques and procedures are identified to enable the
functional and/or aesthetic requirements of the design brief to be met.
Range
examples of techniques are - graphics, modelling;
examples of procedures are - testing, modifying.
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SSB Code 130301
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NZQA Expiring unit standard
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Techniques and procedures applied develop solutions applicable to the design
brief.
Outcome 3
Evaluate and verify developed design.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Evaluation of developed design solution in relation to the design brief
requirements enables any necessary modifications to be determined.
3.2
Modifications, made where necessary, suit the design brief requirements.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
31 August 1996
31 December 2014
Revision
2
8 October 1998
31 December 2014
Review
3
26 February 2002
31 December 2014
Revision
4
15 January 2004
31 December 2014
Review
5
4 December 2012
31 December 2014
Reinstatement
6
19 March 2015
31 December 2017
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0226
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
This unit standard is
Please note
Providers must be granted consentexpiring
to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
NZQA National Qualifications Services
SSB Code 130301
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016