- Most students will have to complete a midpoint assessment to:
- Check that the student is on target to complete (done some work!)
- Check that the first marker and student have not missed anything (fresh eyes)
- Provide additional guidance
- For the second marker to gain an insight into the project before they mark it
- Every course and university will require different components to the midpoint
- However, they are either a formal presentation or a informal chat
Your Midpoint
- Have a chat with your first marker and ask them for advice
- Look at the assessment criteria and make sure you understand what they mean
- Make a list of requirements (things to cover) for each assessment point
- Discussion them with your first marker
- Be clear about the etiquette (rules) and expectations of the midpoint
- Who contacts who?
- Does the student request a meeting or does the second marker issue one
- What information (evidence/ work) does the second marker require?
- Sometimes this is explicitly written other times you may want to ask
- Who is in-charge (controls) the midpoint?
- Often it is assumed that the student will direct the midpoint as it is your presentation
- When does the second marker ask questions/ provide feedback
- Some students and markers prefer addressing questions as they go other students find this off putting.
- However, most second markers will take lead from the student
- Who contacts who?
- Think of ways to visualise your project to make it quick and easy for the second marker to understand your project (here and here), this significantly increases your grade potential.
- It demonstrates to the marker that you understand your project and it requirements
- It also provides as a talking frame
- It also provides a very quick summary of your project which you can share with stakeholders
Typical Midpoint Requirements
- The reason the project was chosen including a background to the problem
- This was covered in your project proposal
- What are the key factors which influence the current situation
- What are the key factors in the current situation which creates your problem
- State your problem in one sentence
- Identify your artefact
- This was covered in your project proposal
- State what your artefact is in one sentence
- Explain how this artefact will overcome the stated problem
- Explore the ethical issues of your project
- This was covered in your project proposal
- What are the ethical concern for your project
- Identify your research strategy (approach)
- Discuss your population and sample
- Discuss your data (qualitative and quantitative)
- Discuss your experiment design
- Discuss how you will achieve triangulation
- Harvard referencing to ensure academic robustness
- Identify what you will cover in your secondary research (Literature Review)
- What information will you need to read about
- How will this information link to your artefact
- Harvard referencing to ensure academic robustness
- Identify what primary data collection tool(s) you will use
- What data collection tool(s) will you use?
- Why will you use this tool(s), link to triangulation?
- How will the data be used to inform your artefact?
- Harvard referencing to ensure academic robustness
- Identify what analysis tools (software/ hardware) and techniques you will used
- Spreadsheet to generate central tendencies
- Harvard referencing to ensure academic robustness
- Identify your artefact requirements
- What are your artefact success criteria?
- How do the success criteria link to your secondary research (triangulation)?
- How do the success criteria link to your primary research (triangulation)?
- Justification of your chosen Development Methodology (SDLC) for the artefact
- What project management approach will you use to manage the artefact development
- Why is this the best approach (Linear vs Nonlinear)?
- Identify how you will testing and validation your artefact
- How will you test the artefact to make sure it achieves the requirements?
- How will you test the artefact to demonstrate that it overcame the stated problem?
- Create a test plan
Look at this report outline as a way of summarising your project