GCSE COURSEWORK

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GCSE COURSEWORK

• EVALUATION

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What is evaluation?

• Evaluation is all about making judgements. It is
  a very important part of designing and making and
  should be done at all stages of the design
  process so that you will be able to make the
  right decisions for the next step in the process.
• Evaluation is a way of looking back at what you
  have already found out and using this information
  to help you produce criteria and ideas and
  eventually to make a food product which fits the
  design brief.
• Evaluation does not happen at the end of the
  project - it is a continual process which allows
  you to find ideas and adapt and improve a product

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Types of evaluation

• Looking at and tasting existing products
• Reading and summarising relevant points from
  various sources of information
• considering ideas in light of consumer
  preferences
• matching ideas to criteria
• testing products against a specification
• testing products for particular sensory
  characteristics - sensory evaluation

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Types of evaluation..

• Carrying out nutritional analysis
• making judgements about the suitability of
  particular ingredients or methods
• judging the effects of different methods of
  storage or processing or ingredients, mixtures or
  complete products
• looking at different packaging materials and
  judging which would be most suitable for your
  product

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Carrying out evaluation The initial research

• You should examine and taste existing products to
  assess what is good or not so good and if an
  alternative or better product could be made
• At the initial research stage you should also
  evaluate the information you have collected and
  draw together points from your questionnaire

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Carrying out evaluation The Design Ideas Stage

• You should look carefully at the ideas you have
  produced and select the most appropriate ones
  which match your design criteria and the
  requirements of the design brief. You should
  choose the most promising idea and think about
  how can it be further developed
• You should carry out sensory testing

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Carrying out evaluation The development stage

• You should evaluate and compare different
  products you have made but where you have changed
  one or more ingredients
• At this stage you should also test the product
  against the specification
• You may also need to test parts of the product in
  a little more detail - depending on your brief
  and product specification
• You also need to test the effects of different
  temperatures and storage methods on parts or all
  of your products
• Finally you need to evaluate your end product
  against the product specification and design
  brief

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Evaluation A summary

• You must always have clear objectives for your
  evaluation - you must make sure of what it is
  you want to find out
• When you write your evaluation you must make it
  clear what you have found out, how successful you
  have been, and what is right and what is wrong
• You must make it clear how you are going to use
  the information you have found out
• Your evaluation should guide you towards the next
  step of the work
• The end product you make should be the result of
  ideas which you have tested, changed or modified.
  The final product may be very different from
  your first ideas. This will be as a result of
  your evaluations.