Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:

1. Complex problems:

   • Identified, analysed, and addressed by drawing on knowledge and methods of a specialist of design.

2. Multiple creative solutions:

   • Generated by using design thinking skills for complex problems.

3. Appropriate design solutions:

   • Prototyped using relevant design tools and technology.

4. Design solutions testing:

   • Conducted and outcomes assessed.

5. Ethical considerations:

   • Design solutions demonstrate an understanding of ethical issues and the users' contexts and affect positive change.

6. Design theory:

   • Design solutions demonstrate knowledge of design theory.

7. Collaborative work:

   • Creative solutions are produced both independently and as members of interdisciplinary teams.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:

1. Research proposal:

   • Prepared to an acceptable standard for a research essay.

2. Informed research:

   • Research is informed by design theory.

3. Competent research:

   • Conducted using methodologies appropriate to design research.

4. Research findings presentation:

   • Presented and reported according to prescribed academic conventions.

5. Creative insight:

   • Research findings offer creative insight and rigorous interpretation of problems and issues pertaining to a specialist area of design.

Integrated Assessment:

• Continuous assessment:

  • Formative and summative assessment included.

• Formative assessment:

  • Interim presentations with feedback and/or critique on work in progress.

• Summative assessment:

  • Design Project assignments as well as the assessment of the research proposal and the completed research essay.