1. Year 11 Research Project Day Term 4 2018

2. The Basics… Research Project is a compulsory, 10-credit subject.
Students must achieve a C- or better to complete the subject successfully and gain their SACE.
Is a SACE Stage 2 subject. Some Stage 1 students opt to complete it in semester 2 of year 11.
Research Project A or B may contribute to a student’s Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR).

3. Why?
You choose an area of interest to research and develop a research question – the choice of topic is yours!
“The Research Project enables students to explore an area of interest in depth, while developing skills to prepare them for further education, training, and work. Students develop their ability to question sources of information, make effective decisions, evaluate their own progress, be innovative, and solve problems.” SACE Board Research Project Subject Outline, 2018.

4. Topic Choice…
Some topic choices are better than others…
TWO IMPORTANT THINGS
Choose a topic you are interested in, but don’t know much about.
Choose a topic where you can get a variety of sources i.e. websites, interviews, surveys, videos, academic reports etc.

5. OUTCOME (presentation of research) 40%
Assessments
There are three assessment tasks for Research Project:
FOLIO (research) %
OUTCOME (presentation of research) 40%
EVALUATION (reflection on research) 30%

6. What do Research Project lessons look like?
You get 5 lessons a week.
Independent work using RP weebly site BUT teacher is supporting.
Regular discussions with teachers.
There will be holiday homework to complete – your teacher will talk to you about this today.

7. The Weebly Site…
The RP course is run through the weebly site above (you have all been ed this link). This is different to the site you went through in the middle of the year. There are still 20 steps to complete the Research Project journey. Today, you will start/continue the steps of the weebly site. You do NOT need to start again.

8. What happens if I don’t work hard?
You have to start Research Project again…

9. Rooms for today
For the rest of the day, you will be with your RP teacher in the below rooms.
Teacher/Class
Room
Mrs Codrington
W201
Mrs Mangelsdorf
W202
Mrs Schwarz
W207
Mr Cammans
W208