Product-Outcome

Creating criteria for the product/outcome

As part of the goal, students must determine a **final product/outcome** of their project.

The product/outcome might be an original work of art, a model, a business plan, a campaign, a blueprint or architectural drawing, an essay, a course of study, a debate, a film or some other work.

Students must define realistic criteria to measure the quality of the project’s final outcome or product. Working with their supervisor, students decide what constitutes a high-quality product/outcome. Some appropriate tools for setting standards and assessing quality include checklists or rubrics. Students document the criteria in their process journal and use them to assess the final outcome or product.

Example: Goal: To design a personal fitness programme to prepare for a half-marathon. The project is aiming to increase fitness through a training schedule, with the OUTCOME of ** demonstrating increased fitness by successfully running a half-marathon. **

The criteria might include a proposed running schedule with interim projected running times, and the final running time the student hopes to achieve in the half-marathon. The outcome might be documented through a fitness chart, diary entries, running times and a series of photos of the actual marathon.

Usually, students will not be able to define the criteria until they have spent some time researching the goal, and criteria should only be determined once students have a clear understanding of what they want to achieve and the proposed product/outcome of their project.