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Present a reflective analysis of developing a digital outcome
Present a reflective analysis of developing a digital outcome
*** In 2025 this DCAT will only be available to run in Term 3 Week 9; between Monday 8th and Friday 12th September 2025 ***
This external is a Digital Technologies (DT) common assessment tasks (CATs) and is completed online. This DCAT asks you to respond to a series of prompts or questions drawn from the achievement standards.
You should aim to write between 800 and 1500 words in total, in about 1.5hrs.
In each following year, the questions, prompts and range of samples may change.
Candidates must present a summary of developing a digital outcome. The digital outcome must have been developed by the candidate, within the past 12 months.
Except as stated below, only work directly keyed by the candidate into their computer or device during the assessment session will be used in the assessment response.
The candidate will not use hard-copy course resources or online resources, or notes of any type, to complete this assessment. The candidate will not access internet resources, except the CAT and the outcome (if the outcome is web-based or saved on the internet).
Digital outcomes developed in an electronics context: in addition, candidates may access digital copies of schematics and digital images of the outcome produced during the development of the outcome.
The questions will require candidates to discuss the decisions made during the development of the digital outcome, and to draw conclusions about the outcome and/or the development process (see Explanatory Notes 4 and 5 of the Achievement Standard).
The discussion will require candidates to focus on how any TWO of the following “implications” were considered during the development of the digital outcome:
cultural issues
legal issues
ethical issues
issues relating to intellectual property
issues relating to sustainability
issues relating to privacy
issues relating to accessibility
issues relating to usability
issues relating to functionality
issues relating to aesthetics
end-user requirements
health and safety issues.
Candidates must prepare THREE images in advance to include in the assessment:
a single image of the digital outcome (e.g. a website; a poster; an electronic device)
a single image of the planning process (e.g. agile development; a planning chart)
a single image of the digital components of the outcome (e.g. the HTML / CSS for a website; the “layers” view of a poster; the code for an electronic device).
The school may be required to provide a link to the candidate’s digital outcome.
By saving an assessment response at the end of the assessment session, the candidate verifies the work is their own. NZQA may digitally sample the candidate’s work to test its authenticity.
RESOURCES
RESOURCES
Task 2 - Practice Your Answers
Task 2 - Practice Your Answers
To help pull together clear examples of your project to use in the exam make a copy of this g.doc Gathering Project Information for 91909
Use your planning, design and development documentation to help you find this information. You can copy and paste info in but make sure you edit it so that it is specific, to the point and most importantly answers the question
Think about what images might be helpful to support
Task 3 - What the markers are looking for....
Task 3 - What the markers are looking for....
--- COMMENTS FROM THE LAST FEW YEARS --- (drop down)
Many candidates did not have authentic clients / stakeholders, which meant their report seldom had the opportunity to explore less obvious implications and higher-level thinking.
Some work was not at Level 7 or 8 of the curriculum and was unsuitable for a Level 3 NCEA project.
Using many images without any supporting commentary does not help the report; a few well-chosen images with meaningful links to specific reflections will support the submission
Candidates should not put live links in their reports.
Where there was a mix of technologies, candidates did not refer to enough of the digital aspects of the outcome – i.e. for 3D printing, candidates should refer to the design not the created model, and for robotics they should refer to the code and not to mechanisms
Sometimes the stakeholder-feedback related to minor aspects of the outcome or its development, and not the functioning of the outcome
Candidates need to find suitable authentic stakeholders and to ask them meaningful questions.
Check out the 91909 Assessment Report 2020 if you want some more specifics about what was done to meet each level of achievement.
Task 4 - Check out some Exemplars
Task 4 - Check out some Exemplars
Task 5 - Sort out your Images (required)
Task 5 - Sort out your Images (required)
You must prepare THREE images in advance to include in the assessment and make sure they are READABLE:
a single image of the digital outcome (e.g. a website; a 3D model; an electronic device, the dinosaur toy etc)
If you have an outcome with multiple pages put together a montage with 2/3 pages i.e. home & gallery page
a single image of the planning process (e.g. agile development; a planning chart)
pick a key stage or like above a montage
a single image of the digital components of the outcome (e.g. the HTML / CSS for a website; the “layers” view of image editing; the code for an electronic device, the working file of a 3D model like Blender/Inkscape/Fusion360).
as above pick some of the key parts, don't put pages and pages of code
Should be saved as JPG or PNG file formats
How to do this
If you need to show a couple for each:
Use this google Slide to help you make a montage (read the help comments and then make a copy)
Insert the images in
Snipping tool each 'montage' giving you a total of 3 files
Once you have the images:
Save these images (3 max) in your H-drive in a folder called DCAT Images
At the start of the exam you will drag and drop this folder onto the desktop
Task 6 - Sit a Derived Grade Exam
Task 6 - Sit a Derived Grade Exam
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