Exemplar for Internal Achievement Standard. Digital Technologies Level 2

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1 Exemplar for internal assessment resource Digital Technologies for Achievement Standard Exemplar for Internal Achievement Standard Digital Technologies Level 2 This exemplar supports assessment against: Achievement Standard Implement advanced procedures to produce a specified digital media outcome An annotated exemplar is an extract of student evidence, with a commentary, to explain key aspects of the standard. It assists teachers to make assessment judgements at the grade boundaries. New Zealand Qualifications Authority To support internal assessment NZQA 2014

2 Exemplar for internal assessment resource Digital Technologies for Achievement Standard Grade Boundary: Low Excellence 1. For Excellence, the student is required to efficiently implement advanced procedures to produce a specified digital media outcome. This involves applying tools and techniques, and undertaking procedures, in a manner that economises the use of resources in the outcome s production and usability (e.g. in a timely fashion, with optimisation of tool selection and use). The student has efficiently implemented advanced procedures by using code commenting in both the HTML (1) and the CSS (2) code. The use of commenting in this code is a sign of efficiency in terms of usability as another web designer can more easily make changes. The website has good usability (video). There was evidence from the assessor that the student met the Excellence criteria in terms of economy, by using the most efficient tools in producing the website (bulk image optimisation, choosing the best tools to edit the images), and working without wasting time. For a more secure Excellence, the student could consider using style groupings in the CSS to make the code more efficient. NZQA 2014

3 Collage Background image 1 Example HTML Code from Collections Page

4 CSS Style sheet Snippet 2

5 Exemplar for internal assessment resource Digital Technologies for Achievement Standard Grade Boundary: High Merit 2. For Merit, the student is required to skilfully implement advanced procedures to produce a specified digital media outcome. This involves: showing accuracy in the application of advanced tools, techniques and procedures showing independence with regard to decision making in the selection of digital media software applications and in the application of advanced tools, techniques and procedures. The student has skilfully implemented advanced procedures by creating a website that functions flawlessly. The student used consistent tags across the website (1) (2) and ongoing and incremental testing to ensure that the website worked across a range of browsers and operating systems (video). There was evidence from the assessor that the student met the Merit criteria in terms of independence with regard to decision making, in the selection of digital media software applications, and in the application of advanced tools, techniques and procedures. The student had worked on their own using online help as needed. To reach Excellence, the student would need to improve the efficiency of the development/coding/testing, for example code commenting in the style sheet, better code commenting in the HTML, using a code validator and fixing errors that had been shown. There are some CSS style decisions which have detracted from the readability of the website, for example, white text on an image that has a dominantly white colour scheme (0:44 in the video). NZQA 2014

6 Collage image used as a background 1 Home page HTML

7 Snippet of the CSS File showing text 2

8 Exemplar for internal assessment resource Digital Technologies for Achievement Standard Grade Boundary: Low Merit 3. For Merit, the student is required to skilfully implement advanced procedures to produce a specified digital media outcome. This involves: showing accuracy in the application of advanced tools, techniques and procedures showing independence with regard to decision making in the selection of digital media software applications and in the application of advanced tools, techniques and procedures. The student has skilfully implemented advanced procedures, creating a website that functions well. The student used consistent tags (1) (2) across the website, and ongoing and incremental testing to ensure the website worked across a range of browsers and operating systems (video). There was evidence from the assessor that the student met the Merit criteria in terms of independence with regard to decision making, in the selection of digital media software applications, and in the application of advanced tools, techniques and procedures. The student had worked on their own using online help as needed. For a more secure Merit, the student would need to improve the accuracy of the development/coding/ testing, for example code commenting in the style sheet, using a code validator and fixing any errors. NZQA 2014

9 1 HTML CODE Collections landing page 2 CSS Code Graphic

10 Exemplar for internal assessment resource Digital Technologies for Achievement Standard Grade Boundary: High Achieved 4. For Achieved the student is required to Implement advanced procedures to produce a specified digital media outcome. This involves: selecting software based on the features of the program(s) that will enable the student to effectively demonstrate skills in creating, editing and integrating the media types applying a set of advanced tools and techniques suited to the media to enhance the presentation of content applying data integrity and testing procedures to ensure the outcome meets the specifications following legal, ethical and moral responsibilities as required for the outcome. The student has implemented advanced procedures by selecting software based on the features of the program(s) (1). There is evidence of advanced tools in the web design. XHTML1.0 is used with an eternal style sheet (2) (3). The code is semantically correct. A guitar logo in their design (4) has some evidence of composition layer masks and pixel selections. The student created a functional website and has met all of the specifications (video). The student has followed legal, ethical and moral responsibilities. The student has used the images provided, and the website has no inappropriate materials (video). To reach Merit, the student would need more thorough and accurate testing. This would need to be supported in marking by the assessor. NZQA 2014

11 The digital media software that I chose to use for this internal was mainly Adobe Dream weaver in code view to create the coding for the website. Adobe Photoshop to edit the photos that I chose to use and Adobe Fireworks to resize the images that I wanted to use so they are a suitable size for the web and don't take too long to load on the page. The coding will all be done in Adobe Dreamweaver, as this was the program that we were taught to use therefore I knew how to use it and how to use it efficiently. I am also familiar with Photoshop and can therefore use it well and it doesn't take up too much time 1 2 HTML code Home page

12 3 CSS Code for Navigation. 4

13 Exemplar for internal assessment resource Digital Technologies for Achievement Standard Grade Boundary: Low Achieved 5. For Achieved, the student is required to Implement advanced procedures to produce a specified digital media outcome. This involves: selecting software based on the features of the program(s) that will enable the student to effectively demonstrate skills in creating, editing and integrating the media types (not included in this exemplar) applying a set of advanced tools and techniques suited to the media to enhance the presentation of content applying data integrity and testing procedures to ensure the outcome meets the specifications following legal, ethical and moral responsibilities as required for the outcome. The student has implemented advanced procedures by using advanced tools in the web design and image editing. The guitar logo has some evidence of composition layer masks and pixel selections and recolouring (1). XHTML1.0 is used with an eternal style sheet (2) (3). The code is semantically correct. The student created a functional website and has met all of the specifications (video). The student has followed legal, ethical and moral responsibilities as required for the outcome. The student has used the provided images, and the website has no inappropriate materials (video). For a more secure Achieved, the student would need more thorough testing and corrected errors. Some of the design elements could have been improved for example the alignment on some pages, and the jquery method works but the content of the popups is not complete. NZQA 2014

14 1 Background image 2 Html Code

15 Snippet of CSS Code 3

16 Exemplar for internal assessment resource Digital Technologies for Achievement Standard Grade Boundary: High Not Achieved 6. For Achieved the student is required to implement advanced procedures to produce a specified digital media outcome. This involves: selecting software based on the features of the program(s) that will enable the student to effectively demonstrate skills in creating, editing and integrating the media types applying a set of advanced tools and techniques suited to the media to enhance the presentation of content applying data integrity and testing procedures to ensure the outcome meets the specifications following legal, ethical and moral responsibilities as required for the outcome. A sample of work is not available for this grade boundary. To reach Achieved, as student would need to demonstrate most of the following: student selection of the applications meeting the specifications advanced tools and techniques in 2 media types (see Explanatory Note 7 for examples) the outcome functions correctly the outcome is fit for purpose testing and data integrity addressing ethical responsibilities. NZQA 2014