BTEC International Level 3 Business

Unit 16: Visual Merchandising — assessment criteria

Learners study the practice and techniques used to visually promote the sale of products in retail outlets.

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Assessment criteria

Reproduced verbatim from the Pearson specification — the same grid the assignment brief carries. A unit grade is the highest band where all criteria in that band (and every band below it) are met.

Pass

6 criteria

A.P1Investigate the visual merchandising and display techniques that can be used in retail outlets.

A.P2Explain how visual merchandising is affected by legal and safety regulations.

B.P3Explain how psychological techniques are used by two contrasting retail outlets.

B.P4Explain how technological techniques are used by two contrasting retail outlets.

C.P5Produce a realistic plan for a visual merchandising display for a product or service in a retail outlet.

C.P6Create a successful visual merchandising display for a product or service in a retail outlet.

Merit

3 criteria

A.M1Analyse the different approaches to visual merchandising used by contrasting businesses, supported by independent research. technological merchandising techniques used to influence customers

B.M2Analyse how psychological and technological techniques are used to increase business success. retail outlet through the use of appropriate visual merchandising techniques

C.M3Plan and create an individual visual merchandising display, using recommendations and feedback to assess the success of the project.

Distinction

3 criteria

A.D1Evaluate the extent to which different visual merchandising and display techniques contribute to the success of two contrasting businesses.

B.D2Evaluate how psychological and technological techniques are used to increase business success.

C.D3Demonstrate individual self- management and initiative in the presentation of a high-quality, successful display for a retail outlet through the creative use of visual merchandising.

Command verbs in this unit

The verb decides the depth expected — that is what separates Pass from Merit and Distinction work on the same learning aim.

EvaluateInvestigateExplainAnalyseDemonstrateProduceCreatePlan

Pearson's ladder runs Identify → Describe → Explain → Compare / Analyse → Evaluate / Justify / Assess. A Merit or Distinction criterion on the same aim always implies the Pass beneath it: an “evaluate” answer that never first “explains” fails, however polished it reads. Hover a verb for what it demands.

Learning aims

A. Explore how retail outlets apply visual merchandising and display techniques in line
B. Examine the psychological and technological merchandising techniques used to
C. Create a successful display for a retail outlet through the use of appropriate visual

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