Advanced Diploma in Jewellery Design and Manufacture

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:

• Articulate a specialised area of contemporary jewellery in its cultural, historical, international, intellectual, and technological contexts about one's design practice.
• Support verbal, visual, and textual individual design.
• Articulate ideas and information comprehensibly in visual, oral, and written forms.
• Present ideas and work to audiences in a range of situations.
• Engage cultural, environmental, global, political, societal, historical, philosophical, ethical, and theoretical issues relevant to contemporary jewellery practice.
• Evaluate evidence, arguments, and assumptions to reach sound judgments.
• Apply analytical and problem-solving skills in the workplace and demonstrate effective communication.
• Source, navigate, select, retrieve, evaluate, manipulate, and manage information from a variety of sources through demonstration.
• Select and employ communication and information technologies through demonstration.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:

• Develop and resolve a sustained creative, speculative, and specialist jewellery practice in the use of materials, processes, and locations.
• Generate new ideas, take creative risks, and produce artifacts for exhibition and public projects.
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the techniques and methods specific to the discipline.
• Formulate questions of context and reception in different kinds of jewellery practice and consider methods for reflection and evaluation.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:

• Work in and make positive contributions to collaborative working environments.
• Show initiative, independence, and responsibility in a professional working environment.
• Identify and communicate personal strengths.
• Develop audiences for creative work.
• Demonstrate effective communication with a range of external and professional agencies.
• Formulate an approach to professional marketing aspects regarding own production.
• Explore the commercial relationships between the candidate's creative work and the industry.

Integrated Assessment:

• Assessment practices are open, transparent, fair, valid, and reliable to ensure no learner is disadvantaged.
• Incorporate an integrated approach to assessment into the qualification.
• Integrate assessment of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values in the qualification.
• Assess fundamental skills and knowledge integrated with other aspects using practical contexts whenever possible.
• Utilize a variety of methods, tools, and activities appropriate to the learner's context.
• Assess learners in the workplace, simulations, case studies, role-plays, and other techniques to provide a context appropriate to the assessment.
• Assess theoretical and practical components.
• Use a range of formative and summative assessment tools and methods during integrated assessments.
• Continuous assessment methods include portfolios, practical workbooks, written assignments, tests, visual presentations, peer group evaluation, and face-to-face contact with learners.