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The Production phase consumes approximately 30-40% of the project time focusing on creating, revising, and editing of repeated drafts for all types of products. Peers, parents, advisors, and the student all have roles in revision and editing—the goal is to achieve high quality in all areas. Non-written products give students a chance to employ other talents and spend hands-on time with their subject. Students have set up a wide variety of visual displays, given speeches/talks to community groups, taken an invention from idea to design to prototyping, built complex and near-professional model train layouts, designed and sewn Elizabethan dresses, choreographed dances, taught classes, built boomerangs, and planned weddings. Real-world work is the true connection between research and understanding.
At the close of the project, the student organizes all components of the entire project process, including time logs. An End-of-Project Analysis is written (2-3 pages minimum), and the project is saved in an electronic portfolio. A meeting is scheduled for the student and the original project team to evaluate the work. Evaluation meetings generally last 45 minutes to one hour and are a collaborative process to determine quality of products and process. The student leads the discussion, covering process, content, and self-evaluation for placement on a nine-part rubric. As a rule, students have a very accurate sense regarding the strong and weak points of the work and the evaluation meeting is as much about suggestions for the future as it is about assessment of the present. The student’s individual advisor often acts as an advocate for the student, since he/she has been a guide/resource throughout the project. A balance between hours spent and quality of work determines the credit earned.
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