Year 11 - Design and technology
Feedback and evaluation
Designing and Making Principles
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Unit Summary
In this unit pupils will develop designing and making principles knowledge with an explicit focus on exam technique.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain how and why industries use feedback to improve products.
Key Notes
- Industry uses feedback to improve products.
- Industry evaluates feedback to maintain quality and stay competitive.
Vocabulary To Learn
- feedback: comments on a design to help improve or refine it
- evaluation: assessing something to judge its quality
- improvement: making something better
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Feedback is only used to fix problems.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Industry uses feedback to improve products. Industry evaluates feedback to maintain quality and stay competitive.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'feedback'
comments on a design to help improve or refine it.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Feedback is only used to fix problems. Correction: Industries use feedback not just to solve issues but also to innovate, improve efficiency, enhance customer satisfaction, and stay competitive.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Costing Study Guide
- Design brief Study Guide
- Design specification Study Guide
- Efficient manufacturing systems Study Guide
- Health and Safety Study Guide
- Manufacturing considerations and selection Study Guide
- Material considerations and selection Study Guide
- Modifications and improvements Study Guide
- Product analysis Study Guide
- Quality Study Guide
- Research Study Guide
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