Assessment Type 1: Project Skills (50%)

Students produce four project skills tasks in which they examine approaches to identifying, deconstructing, and solving problems of interest by applying:

• computational thinking skills, including abstraction
• data analysis skills
• design and programming skills
• iterative project-development techniques.

The problems chosen should be of interest to the students.

At least one of the tasks should involve students working collaboratively, with each student providing individual evidence of their role in and contribution to the collaborative task.

At least one of the tasks should focus on students analysing simple and complex data sets related to a problem of interest to identify patterns and/or trends, draw conclusions, and make predictions.

At least one of the tasks should involve an assessment of programming skills.

In at least one of the tasks, students research and discuss the ethical implications of data use and/or digital solutions for individuals, groups, societies, and/or the environment.

The tasks should be presented in multimodal form. Together, the four tasks should be the equivalent in multimodal form of a maximum of 20 minutes.

Tasks may include, for example:

• a screen‑capture validation, highlighting innovative features
• a multimedia presentation of a solution to a problem, analysis of data, or prediction of trends
• an annotated prototype solution or proof of concept
• an informed debate about the ethics of data storage and use.

For this assessment type, students provide evidence of their learning primarily in relation to the following assessment design criteria:

• computational thinking
• development and evaluation
• research and ethics.