NSES Content Standard E  Science and Technology: Abilities of technological design Grades 5-8, page 165 Evaluate completed technological designs or products. Students should use criteria relevant to the original purpose or need, consider a variety of factors that might affect acceptability and suitability for intended users or beneficiaries, and develop measures of quality with respect to such criteria and factors; they should also suggest improvements and, for their own products, try proposed modifications.

 
Benchmark 3B The Nature of Technology: Design and Systems
Grades 6-8, page 51
All technologies have effects other than those intended by the design, some of which may have been predictable and some not. In either case, these side effects may turn out to be unacceptable to some of the population and therefore lead to conflict between groups.

Benchmark 3B The Nature of Technology: Design and Systems
Grades 6-8, page 51
Systems fail because they have faulty or poorly matched parts, are used in ways that exceed what was intended by the design, or were poorly designed to begin with. The most common ways to prevent failure are pretesting parts and procedures, overdesign, and redundancy.

Benchmark 12E Habits of Mind: Critical-Response Skills
Grades 6-8, page 299
Compare consumer products and consider reasonable personal trade-offs among them on the basis of features, performance, durability, and cost.

Benchmark 12E Habits of Mind: Critical-Response Skills
Grades 9-12, page 300
Suggest alternative ways of explaining data and criticize arguments in which data, explanations, or conclusions are represented as the only ones worth consideration, with no mention of other possibilities. Similarly, suggest alternative trade-offs in decisions and designs and criticize those in which major trade-offs are not acknowledged.