Assessment requirements
Activity 3 The specification for The potential of technology unit
The objective of this course activity is to familiarise yourself with the assessment requirements for The potential of technology unit.
The three awarding bodies that accredit the Diploma in IT are AQA/City and Guilds, Edexcel and OCR. You may have already made a decision about which of these boards you are using for the diploma. Go to their website and look at the assessment criteria for the higher level unit, The potential of technology. You may already be familiar with them. If not, look at the four learning objectives that are assessed during this unit. These are summarised in Table 2.
| Learning Objective | AQA/City and Guilds | Edexcel | OCR |
| LO.1 | Understand the role, contribution and impact of technology on society and to the success of a range of organisations, including its impact on their efficiency and competitiveness | Understand the function of key components of technology systems used in organisations | Understand the role and contribution of technology to the success of a range of organisations |
| LO.2 | Understand how technology, including the Internet and mobile communications, is changing the way organisations, individuals and societies communicate and operate | Understand reasons why an organisation should implement or improve a technology system | Understand the effects that technology is having on organisations, individuals and society |
| LO.3 | Know the key components of technology systems and the function and purpose of each in different business situations | Understand the role and contribution of technology to the success of an organisation | Be able to demonstrate how the key components of technology systems may combine together to create an effective solution to business needs |
| LO.4 | Be able to explain and suggest why example organisations should implement new and/or improve their existing technology and/or communication systems | Understand how technology is changing the way organisations, individuals and society operate | Individually and as part of a team, learners are to use their understanding of the benefits of technology to justify the adoption of a new, or of an improvement to, an existing technology system |
Read through the details of your chosen awarding body specification in preparation for the section on the face-to-face session that reflects on how The potential of technology unit can be assessed using any of these criteria.
Principal learning for higher level can be found at the following:AQA/City and Guilds (page 20)
www.diplomainfo.org.uk/ documents/ IT_level_2_Principal_Learning_ammended.pdf [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]
Edexcel (page 103):
OCR (page 3):
www.ocr.org.uk/ download/ kd/ ocr_9850_kd_diploma_centre_sec_12.pdf
Preparation for the face-to-face session