Resources by Goldsmiths College University of London
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The Technology Education Research Unit (TERU) was founded in 1990 at Goldsmiths College University of London. The unit focuses on understanding how design and technology...
Assessing Design Innovation was a research and development project conducted for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) in 2004. The purpose was to assess the current condition of design and technology in schools and to identify ways in which teaching...
Assessing Design Innovation: Report
This paper, produced by the Technology Education Research Unit (TERU) at Goldsmiths College, University of London, reports the findings of an assessment of design and technology teaching in primary and secondary schools. A focus of the report was on assessment of design and technology subjects at all stages and...
Assessing Design Innovation: Tasks
This set of tasks presents students with challenges encouraging them to be creative and imaginative in responding to a design brief. Each project can be used as an assessment activity and students are given six to seven hours to complete the task. Each brief clearly explains the scenario, what is required and what...
The Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) was set up in 1975 within the Department of Education and Science (DES) to promote the development of methods of assessing and monitoring the achievement of students at school, and to seek to identify the incidence of underachievement.
The APU commissioned research...
Attitudes of potential teachers of Design and Technology
Against a background of falling applications and teacher recruitment, this research, published in March 2000, aimed to identify the attitudes of potential design and technology teachers towards pursuing this career. The research looked at potential teachers' career aspirations and how their own experiences of...
Design skills for work
Published in January 1998, Design skills for work was a two-part report written by the Technology Education Research Unit for the Design Council.
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Students have increasingly used digital formats, such as digital cameras and computer-aided design software, within their design and technology work in schools. The Great E-scape allowed students to not only design and prototype their projects entirely digitally but also to submit their portfolios and be assessed...
E-scape Portfolio Assessments: Reports
The E-scape project was an electronic assessment system that was based on students designing and prototyping new products by working entirely digitally. The expectation was that this form of assessment would encourage new forms of thinking in the students, enrich the designing process and make the assessment...
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