IB Design Technology (DT) SL Internal Assessment Example

The student clearly identified a real and relevant problem for urban food couriers and supported it with local observations, user voices, and market context.

The student's brief shows strong understanding of the target users, client needs, safety, comfort, weather resistance, and commercial constraints.

The student developed a detailed set of requirements that connects well to research and begins to define what a successful solution must achieve.

Some requirements are still too subjective, so they would be stronger if phrased as measurable outcomes.

A few pieces of supporting evidence are not fully clear or consistently linked to the claim they are meant to support.

Some specifications would benefit from tighter alignment so that all stated dimensions, costs, and performance targets work together without contradiction.

The student explored several distinct concepts rather than settling too early on one idea, which shows genuine design thinking.

The student's sketches and annotations usually connect back to requirements such as capacity, insulation, balance, visibility, and storage.

The student made a clear selection decision and gave reasons that relate to user needs and practical performance.

Some of the concept testing evidence is descriptive rather than clearly proven with enough method detail to make the conclusions fully convincing.

The comparison between ideas would be stronger if the student weighted the most important needs more explicitly and showed how each concept performed against them.

A few annotations identify problems without fully explaining how the design should change in response.