PP Creating Criteria
PP Creating Criteria
Projects guide 44
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 projects 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.
For example, the goal may be 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.