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2.  How you refined your question. Include things like: o Research proposal o Any emails/communication with others you have had that helped you decide on (or refined) a topic o A summary of how your question has changed throughout the process o Make sure you highlight exactly what your final question is o Mindmaps, lotus diagrams, PMI’s, SWOT’s etc… that show how you refined your Q. o How you’re going to look at presenting your outcome May look at how this has progressed throughout the process if applicable

3.  How you planned the research processes. Include things like: o Timelines o A contents page of things that you’ve done o A break down of what you’re hoping to achieve o Records of emails and summaries that you’ve written up from them

4.  How the research developed. Include things like: o Highlighting and annotating – making specific reference to the relevance to your question o Any interviews, notes, data collection o Notes of what you have learned through the process o Key areas of how the research has developed o If practical, where you have sourced materials, budgets etc… o Things that have shown that you’ve used initiative. E.g. lists of interviews, observations, experiments, surveys, focus groups etc… Indicating how and why they were useful to your project specificaly

5.  Analysis of the information and exploring ideas. Include things like: o Survey results, including graphs etc... With analysis o Samples of the surveys you handed out with annotations/notes on what questions were aiming to achieve

6.  Development of knowledge and skills specific to the research. Include things like: o Any experiments you’ve conducted o Notes from observations or surveys outlining how theory has been applied in practice o Receiving professional feedback on anything you’ve created

7.  Understanding and development of one or more capabilities. Include things like: o worksheet used to identify relevant capabilities o generalisations and connections relating capabilities to question o examples of how understanding of capabilities improved over time o preparation and reasoning for discussion questions

8.  A list of all references you’ve used. Write it up as a normal bibliography. Include: o Books o Internet o Journals o Interviews o Focus groups o Video o Radio programs

9.  Needs to be presented as either: o 2 pages written You can use the question suggestions provided or create your own using a combination of questions that you think will help you show more clearly how you’re achieving the performance standards o 10 minutes unbroken audio You are responsible for getting this formatted and on a disc to be handed in with your folders

10.  Make sure the writing is largely enough to read clearly  Print your 10 pages out in colour  Put headings clearly marking which criteria is being addressed in the 10 pages. o P1 – consideration and refinement of a question o P2 – Planning or research processes o D1 – Development of the research o D2 – Analysis of information and exploration of ideas o D3 – Development of knowledge and skills o D4 – Understanding and development of one or more capabilities