Discussion and Conclusion

Discussions

Learners apply the collected information to develop and complete the objectives that they have set. This tests their capacity to see a project through to completion. The project must produce some form of end result, which will vary according to the type of project.

Guidance on different forms of project outcome

Project outcomes that are mainly written, for example dissertation can be presented in any appropriate format. This must include as a minimum:

- What the project is about

- Draw upon the sources you have found to support arguments

-Put forward alternative point of views, arguments, counter arguments and evidence to support them.

-Cite your sources as you use them

-You can bring in new sources which weren't in your Research Review. Cite them, evaluate them briefly in footnotes and add them to the Bibliography.

-The examiner would like to see some ethical, philosophical or sociological arguments to raise your work above the level of a technical / scientific report

• If the project outcome is a performance, evidence must include supporting information which makes clear:

- the stages that the learner has gone through

- how ideas have developed.

The project outcome must be recorded on video or audio.

• If the project outcome is an artefact or design, the end result must be recorded appropriately, for example using photography. There must also be supporting information which makes clear:

- the stages that the learner has gone through

- how ideas have developed and alternative designs that have been considered.

Examples of features of effective presentation for artefacts that learners may incorporate will vary from one project to the next but may include:

- a description of a problem that needs to be solved

- sketches, drawings, diagrams, design development sheets

- changes or improvements made during the course of the project

- an explanation of how the artefact/design works

- a review of media, materials, processes, technology

- any relevant features that also appear in the features of effective presentation for written outcomes section, below

- evidence of the final outcome.

Conclusion

Your conclusions on the research question must be:

-A clear & well-developed summary of your point of view.

-How has your point of view changed?

-What have you learnt about the subject area from the process of research and argument?

-How could your research question be developed with further work by you later in life or by someone else? (Well thought out suggestions)

-What are the wider implications of further work?

Keep in mind Assessment Objective 3 'Develop & Realise'