Success Criteria

Objective B: Planning

In this part of Planning, you will:

i. develop a detailed, appropriate and thoughtful proposal for action to serve the need in the community.

Now that you have established the goal, global context, prior learning and subject-specific knowledge, and have engaged in extensive research, you need to create a proposal for action by creating criteria for success for the product / outcome of your Community Project.

Creating Success Criteria

How do you know your actions were successful? What is the group’s desired outcome for the proposal?

You must determine a final product/outcome of your project. The product/outcome might be an original work of art, a model, a business plan, a campaign, a blueprint, posters, a book, a charity event, a podcast, a petition, an adult workshop, or a tuition session for younger children. You must define realistic criteria to measure the quality of the project’s outcome or product.

Success Criteria

What Are Success Criteria

Success criteria answer the question: "How will we know our project was successful?"

You need to create a minimum of four rigorous specifications for your criteria. Your group should select at least four of the criteria that are appropriate for the project's product or outcomes, but you are not expected to include all eight criteria (see the option below). You may also include other criteria that fit your product/outcome.

To do this, you need to create specifications that you will then transfer into criteria for success for your Community Project.

When creating your specifications, ask yourself the following questions:

How will I know when I have achieved my goal?
How can I judge the quality of my product/outcome?

Here are the eight options you can consider when creating your specifications:

When you have your list of specifications, you need to transfer these to criteria for success by thinking deeply about what each specification will look like at the varying degrees of success.

How to make your Success Criteria Specific, Measurable and Strong

Here are some examples for you.

1. Example 1: English Tutoring

Project Goal: To support local primary students, we will teach English to them (ages 7-10) through 4 tutorial sessions by the end of February, creating 20-30 page 30 workbooks.

2. Example 2: Digital Cookbook

Project Goal: To create a vegetarian or vegan digital cookbook with educational information and easy-to-follow recipes for all ages. Share it with local families at a community event to encourage healthy, plant-based eating.

This part of our Community Project will require the help of your supervisor. Once you have your specifications ready to go and have shown this to your peers to receive feedback, take these to your supervisor and they will walk you through step-by-step of just how to create criteria for success.

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