For Distinction standard, learners will draw on and show synthesis of knowledge
across the learning aims to evaluate how the decisions and methodologies applied
throughout the design, development, maintenance, optimisation and testing of the
mobile app impacted on its effectiveness. Learners will justify their designs and provide
a discussion on why alternative designs were not used.
Learners will provide a detailed evaluation of their completed app’s effectiveness in
comparison to alternative solutions. Their evaluation must be supported by evidence
from all stages of the project to reach conclusions and suggest future developments.
It will contain a systematic and accurate review of their own skills, performance and
behaviours, and the impact that this had on the effectiveness of the final app.
Learners will take individual responsibility for their own work, for example identifying
potential issues and resolving them, reviewing their work and making improvements,
keeping their work safe and secure and showing responsible use of quoted materials.
They will show creativity, for example by taking innovative approaches to problem
solving and through the originality of their solution.
For Merit standard, learners will apply their knowledge through the selection and
application of appropriate methodologies to design, develop, maintain and test an
effective, optimised mobile app to meet identified requirements. Learners will produce
comprehensive designs to cover multiple devices, alternative solutions and use of device
functions. Learners must make use of feedback from others to help improve and refine
the designs to create a solution. They will justify decisions made when developing the
design. When developing their app, learners will produce optimal code in order to
implement the required device functions in the most efficient way.
Learners will gather and analyse feedback on their app in order to make improvements.
They will record the changes that are made and produce subsequent versions of the app
as appropriate.
Learners must optimise their apps by making use of testing and feedback throughout
development to improve and refine the final solution, for example resampling and
exporting assets to different file types to reduce demands on system resources,
making use of additional phone features, enhancing the user interface.
Learners must provide a clear and balanced analysis of the success of their solution,
giving accurate and reasoned suggestions as to how it could be improved. They will
discuss alternative solutions that may be implemented if the task were to be repeated.
They must consider how decisions they made during the project affected the outcomes
and justify why they made these decisions.