This qualification has been designed around six fundamental skills areas which connect the objectives, teaching content and assessment criteria. The course is assessed using 6 assessment criteria. These are not a series of tasks that are done separately. A practitioner will use all of these six areas of skills repeatedly when developing their work. As such, each criteria are equally weighted, meaning they are given equal importance in a learners’ development.
These consist of:
- Investigation: Skills for using investigation processes that are applied through practical and theoretical approaches.
- Experimentation: Skills for engaging in processes of experimentation with concepts, media, materials and techniques.
- Realisation: Skills for realising work using media,materials, techniques and processes.
- Evaluation: Skills for using review of processes and practice to inform creative choices.
- Realisation: Skills for realising work using media, materials, techniques and processes.
- Communication: Skills for communicating, intentions through work, with consideration for the audience.
- Self-directed practice: Skills for applying professional behaviours within creative practice.
Students submit a portfolio of evidence at the end of the course which includes a final major project and exhibition as their final assessment.