What are the objectives/criteria for the Personal Project?
What you should hand in for Personal Project must include
• a process journal
• an outcome or product and
• a report
Objective A Use the process journal
Students should:
• demonstrate organizational skills through time and self-management
• communicate and collaborate with the supervisor
• demonstrate information literacy, thinking and reflection.
Objective B Define the goal
Students should:
• identify and explain a topic based on personal interest
• justify one focus area of interaction as a context for the project
• outline a clear, achievable, challenging goal
• create specifications that will be used to evaluate the project's outcome/product.
Objective C Select sources
Students should:
• select varied, relevant sources to achieve the goal
• evaluate sources.
Objective D Apply information
Students should:
• transfer and apply information to make decisions, create solutions and develop understandings in
• connection with the project's goal.
Objective E Achieve the goal
Students should:
• evaluate the outcome/product against their own specifications for success.
Objective F Reflect on learning
Students should:
• reflect on how completing the project has extended their knowledge and understanding of the topic
and the focus area of interaction
• reflect on how they have developed as a learner by completing the project.
Objective G Report the project
Students should:
• organize the project report according to the required structure
• communicate clearly, coherently and concisely, within required limits
• acknowledge sources according to recognized conventions.
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• a process journal
• an outcome or product and
• a report
Objective A Use the process journal
Students should:
• demonstrate organizational skills through time and self-management
• communicate and collaborate with the supervisor
• demonstrate information literacy, thinking and reflection.
Objective B Define the goal
Students should:
• identify and explain a topic based on personal interest
• justify one focus area of interaction as a context for the project
• outline a clear, achievable, challenging goal
• create specifications that will be used to evaluate the project's outcome/product.
Objective C Select sources
Students should:
• select varied, relevant sources to achieve the goal
• evaluate sources.
Objective D Apply information
Students should:
• transfer and apply information to make decisions, create solutions and develop understandings in
• connection with the project's goal.
Objective E Achieve the goal
Students should:
• evaluate the outcome/product against their own specifications for success.
Objective F Reflect on learning
Students should:
• reflect on how completing the project has extended their knowledge and understanding of the topic
and the focus area of interaction
• reflect on how they have developed as a learner by completing the project.
Objective G Report the project
Students should:
• organize the project report according to the required structure
• communicate clearly, coherently and concisely, within required limits
• acknowledge sources according to recognized conventions.
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