The assessment criteria are intended to check a student’s understanding of sustainability issues, but they can also be used to provide a helpful checklist for students and teachers.

We suggest students are given the criteria at the start of their course and include them in their folders. Each criterion has two boxes alongside. We suggest students use the first box to indicate the page reference in their folder where they think they have met the criteria. The teacher can then check easily whether or not the student’s assessment is correct.

Although the criteria are presented in a linear form, they need not be used in that way. Students may achieve some of the criteria at different times in their work

Further guidance on how to use the criteria, including an example of how a pilot school student’s work was assessed see link to student’s folder (coming soon).

For the purposes of SDA, the following internally assessed units are the only ones that will count towards the Award. However, using the activities and toolkit will help students with sustainability issues in all other units of their work.