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OGC Personal Project: A: Planning

Criterion A is about Planning!

This section of the Report includes these three sections:

1) State a learning goal for the project and explain how a personal interest led to that goal

  • Create S.M.A.R.T Goals (see below)

2) State a product goal and develop appropriate success criteria for the product

  • How will you know you have achieved your learning outcomes?

3) Provide a clear, detailed plan for achieving the product and including success criteria

  • Use this TEMPLATE to write your Action Plan
  • Your plan needs to focus on the product not the report criteria

Have you completed everything properly?

Use this Criterion A Checklist

1) SMART Goals

Create a SMART goal for your Learning Goal

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3) Action Planning

Video: Plan for Achieving your PRODUCT

Templates to plan the ACTIONS needed to complete your PRODUCT

  • Table, Calendar, Gant Chart - choose the one(s) that work best for you!

 

 

Action Planning Resources

2) Define the Success Criteria

What should the Success Criteria Include?

The success criteria, developed by the student, measure the degree of excellence to which the product aspires or the terms under which the product can be judged to have been successful.

❖ The success criteria must be testable, measurable and observable.

❖ The success criteria must evaluate the product.

❖ The success criteria must evaluate the impact on the student or the community.

(Handbook for students and supervisors p. 14)

Use this TEMPLATE to write your Success Criteria

Tips for Writing Success Criteria (Printable)

Try ACCESS FM to develop your success criteria

See this example of ACCESS FM from another student's project

You do not have to have success criteria for each of these elements. You might decide that only 5 or 6 of them are relevant to your project. That's okay. This is simply a tool to get you thinking about the various elements of your product you need to consider and possibly research in order to understand what success will look like.

See Guiding Questions HERE.

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Criterion A: Planning 

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