Knowledge Indicators - The competent technology education teacher:
5A. understands that the quality and value of a design depends on how clearly it meets a need, fits its purpose, uses resources appropriately, and addresses constraints, (e.g. economic, environmental, aesthetic, and political).
5B. understands that designing a product, device, process, or system requires considering how it will be developed, managed, used, and assessed for its impact and consequences.
5C. understands how to balance design tradeoffs, since there is no perfect design that meets all criteria, such as the safest, most reliable, least expensive, and most efficient.
5D. understands the general developmental process of design and that the design process is iterative and not linear and includes generating ideas; considering constraints such as cost and criteria; and communicating processes and results.
5E. understands the value and importance of testing in the evaluation of good design.
5F. understands the roles of documentation and communication and their impact on quality design.
5G. understands design decision criteria and their use in determining whether a design solution should be developed. These criteria may include personal, social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental issues.

Performance Indicators - The competent technology education teacher:
5H. demonstrates the ability to identify practical problems deriving from human needs or wants.
5I. demonstrates the ability to develop and use design briefs with proper specifications.
5J. demonstrates the ability to investigate, generate, and select ideas to plan an optimum design that takes into account knowledge of constraints and criteria obtained from research.
5K. demonstrates the ability to select, plan, and implement the best possible solution that takes into consideration the many tradeoffs and reaches the best compromise.
5L. demonstrates the ability to design ways to produce products by mass production.
5M. demonstrates the ability to evaluate a selected design solution and make modifications based on that evaluation.
5N. demonstrates the ability to use verbal and graphic means to communicate processes, observations, and the results of the entire design process.
5O. demonstrates the ability to use feedback to consider design steps and to redesign in light of public concern or comment.
5P. demonstrates the ability to use standards of quality in the design and production of consumer goods.
5Q. demonstrates the ability to use marketing criteria in creating a design (e.g., value and function).