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Assignment 2: Design –Related Task Product Testing and Analysis
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Assignment 2: Design –Related Task Product Testing and Analysis As part of Assignment 2 you are to engage in a design-related task. The task chosen for this semester relates to product testing. Each group is to develop a scope and sequence using the attached form along with a set of student support documents. The following information may be used as a guide in creating your product testing scope and sequence. You may elect to use a different set of guidelines. It makes a good deal of sense for a teacher to use ‘Realia’ - objects or activities used to relate classroom teaching to the real life. This is particularly true in teaching technology subjects. One teaching strategy technology teachers can apply is that of product testing. Product testing is implemented within classroom settings with the goal of raising awareness within the student of logical principles of evaluation. The logical principles of evaluation are based on the scientific method and require students to use critical thinking skills. Product testing reduces the necessity of learning by trial and error. In product testing students collect data, analyse it engage in comparative decision making about alternatives, draw conclusions and rate products. The role of the teacher is to guide the student in making sound decisions. By encouraging the student to do, try and experiment, students may gain insights into products, their intent, their uses and their results. DEVISE A FORMAT FOR THE TESTING OF PRODUCTS Consider some of the following ideas • Each product to be tested has to be introduced in some way based, perhaps, upon something well known about it. • Students in discussions of the products focusing upon form, function and design. • Investigate the products, gather data, interpret data and draw conclusions. Here is a simple example – not to be reproduced by Food Technology Students TESTING AND ANALYSIS OF COLA DRINKS Product: Cola Drinks Claim: Cola drinks do not vary greatly in taste. Pre-test Activity> Discussion of the range of cola drinks and of claims made by manufacturers. Requirements 1.Committee of students arrangers obtain samples of different brands of cola drinks; a quantity of tasting paper cups; a quantity of unidentifiable containers; and scarves for blindfolding. 2.Recorder who will note the taste panel preferences into a spread sheet or a table directly on a tablet or laptop. Procedure: 1.Committee appoints a taste panel of about 6. 2.The drinks are poured into the numbered, unidentified containers (out of sight of the rest!) 3.Each taste-tester is blindfolded and drinks a sample of each cola drink. 4.The votes of each taste tester for each cola drink are recorded into a spreadsheet or table directly on a tablet or laptop. 5.Containers are identified, and another taste panel test. The result will normally be that the claim is true, because confusion exists as to identifying brand names. Develop a series of up to 6 lessons during which students will test a product relevant to your TAS Specialisation or alternatively students engage in a market research project.
