1.6+Assessment

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 * This is how you will be assessed during the group 4 Project week:**

Each team has a room allocated and two supervisors (teacher and technician). The supervisor's job is to award marks for your personal skills based on the criteria below. They can also support and guide you in the management of your project. However, they may not have expertise in your chosen question area. You will need to seek out expertise as part of your research before you start the project. All the supervising staff have their own areas of expertise and you are welcome to seek their advice throughout the week. Make sure that your supervisor knows where you are at all times. Each member of staff will be based in one room so you should be able to locate them easily. Remember that you may also seek guidance and expertise form the DT and Science Technicians.

=**__Supervising staff and areas of expertise:__**=

(this may change depending on staff availability)


 * Ms. Ryan** (Biology/Science)
 * Mr. French** (Biology/Physics)
 * Ms. Cottam** (Head of Food Technology)
 * Mr Chiu** (Ecology/Chemistry)
 * Mr. Dickson** (ICT/DT)
 * Ms Harvey** (DT)
 * Mr. Webster** (PE/Sports Science)*

Your supervisor will be watching you and your team throughout the project and making judgments about your personal skills. You will all be formally interviewed as a team at some point during the two days. Be prepared for this. We expect to see **real evidence** of the following things:

Approaches the project with **self-motivation** and follows it through to completion. **Collaborates and communicates** in a group situation and **integrates** the views of others. Shows a thorough **awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses** and gives **thoughtful consideration to their learning experience.**

Your supervisor is fully aware that we all have strengths and weaknesses and they we may be confident in some situations and nervous in others. That's okay. You will not lose marks just for being nervous in a presentation or if you were unable to complete something to the standard you had hoped. The important thing is that you have remained motivated and that you have worked well in your team, communicated well and have given serious thought to this learning experience. This may come through in your presentation and it may come through during the two days. We expect all students to achieve full marks, but students who do not engage positively with the project should not expect to get full marks.

=The presentation:=

On Friday morning, all teams will make a presentation in front of staff and other project teams. Your presentation must be produced using Powerpoint. You will given a maximum of two minutes per team member to make your presentation. This time limit will be strictly enforced. You will need to rehearse! Don't leave this until the last minute. It might be a good idea for one or two team members to be in charge of collecting material for the presentation throughout the two days. **Every team member must contribute to the presentation.** Your presentation must clearly show your investigation, your conclusions and recommendations and finish by posing a follow up question for next year's Group 4 project teams. Your presentation must be passed on to Mr. Ford as a soft copy at the end of the project.


 * NOTE: Your presentation __MUST contain the 'Flagship4Sustainabiliy' logo on every slide.__ This will be made available to you during the week. **

=**Assessment.**=

The Group 4 Project assesses the 'Personal Skills' criterion only. You cannot use it for any other assessment. 6 marks are available in total as shown in the table.


 * You and your teams will be observed throughout the project by at least one member of staff.
 * They will be making notes about how well you apply the three aspects below.
 * You will be interviewed at some point during the project about how you have addressed each aspect, be prepared.
 * They will expect to see evidence of these aspects being covered in the exposition.
 * Every member of the team will be expected to contribute to the exposition's preparation and delivery.

These marks will be determined by the teacher alone and added to your IA marks for your group 4 subject by your subject teacher.


 * **Levels/marks** || **Aspect 1** || **Aspect 2** || **Aspect 3** ||
 * || **Self-motivation and perseverance** || **Working within a team** || **Self-reflection** ||
 * **Complete/2** || //Approaches the project with self-motivation and follows it through to completion.// || //Collaborates and communicates in a group situation and integrates the views of others.// || //Shows a thorough awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses and gives thoughtful consideration to their learning experience.// ||
 * **Partial/1** || //Completes the project but sometimes lacks self-motivation.// || //Exchanges some views but requires guidance to collaborate with others.// || //Shows limited awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses and gives some consideration to their learning experience.// ||
 * **Not at all/0** || //Lacks perseverance and motivation.// || //Makes little or no attempt to collaborate in a group situation.// || //Shows no awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses and gives no consideration to their learning experience.// ||