Proposal Form

The Project Proposal Form gives an overview of the project title, the objectives within the project, reasons why the candidate picked the title, timescales in the project work, milestones along the way and an overview of the resources they need.

All candidates should submit a Project Proposal Form with their final project outcome. The purpose of this form is to provide evidence of their project management skills. It is an important document, and you must take some time over filling it in. Hastily written project proposal forms often indicate that there has not been careful thought about the choice of project objectives. The form needs to be typed, as this allows it to be added to or edited. If your ideas for your project change significantly, it may be helpful to submit two versions, but so long as the activity log explains the changes that have been made, it is acceptable simply to submit the final version. The project proposal form is a work-in-progress document which can evolve with the project.

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Centre Name - Parmiter's School

Teacher Assessor - name of the agreed member of staff who is acting as your tutor-assessor

Unit - Dissertation, Performance, Artefact

Learner number - your usual candidate number

Centre number - 17625

Proposed project title - This must be in the form of a well-defined and clearly focused question which is open to different answers or interpretations allowing you to find and compare evidence for different opinions that counter your own view making your discussion reasonably balanced rather than one-sided.

To get your Learner number, please speak to Mrs Faisal.

Section 1 Title, Objectives, Responsibilities

Title (or working title) –repeat the title above.

Project objectives – Must be clear and thoughtful.

They are important because you will refer back to them when reviewing your own performance in the Evaluation section.

Dissertation

• What is the question you want to answer? "I want to investigate and write a Report on ...." clearly state the QUESTION and elaborate.

• What do you want to find out? Your question broken down into smaller sub-sections e.g. I want to find out the answer to my question by:

• Doing secondary research into ....

• Doing primary research (if any) by ....

• (PRIMARY RESEARCH IS NOT COMPULSORY FOR A DISSERTATION)

• Seeing how my question links to ....

• What do you want to learn how to do? Two or three skills to be improved by doing the project e.g., Project management skills, Research skills, Report writing skills, Presentation skills, Data analysis skills (e.g., if planning to interpret measurements or statistics), Self- evaluation skills

Performance

Question or commission broken down into smaller sub-sections e.g. I want to:

• Undertake secondary research into potential performance material, skills and techniques by reading .../ watching film of ... / listening to recordings of ...

• Undertake primary research into potential performance material, skills and techniques by visiting… / speaking to… / attending performances of …

• Develop my ideas, write / compose / choreograph and refine the ....

• Find a suitable venue, source costumes and equipment...

• Prepare publicity material

• Rehearse and explore performance techniques

• Give and record the Performance

• Collect audience feedback

• What do you want to learn how to do?

• Two or three skills to be improved by doing the project e.g.

• Creative skills (e.g., writing, composing, choreographing, performing)

• Research skills

• Report writing skills

• Presentation skills

• Project management skills

• Self- evaluation skills

Artefact

Design brief broken down into smaller sub-sections e.g. I want to:

• Undertake primary research into my client’s requirements

• Undertake primary and secondary research into how similar briefs have been met in the past

• Undertake primary and secondary research into potential materials, processes, techniques and designs

• Develop my ideas and experiment with possible solutions to…

• What do you want to learn how to do?

Two or three skills to be improved by doing the project e.g.

• Creative skills in…

• Research skills

• Report writing skills

• Presentation skills

• Data analysis skills (e.g., if planning to interpret measurements or statistics)

• Project management skills

• Self- evaluation skills

Group projects: Not Applicable

Section 2 Reasons for Choosing this Project

Why is the question important generally? A clear and thoughtful rationale

Why is the question important to you personally e.g., relevant to future studies / career or you are personally affected, or you know someone who is…

An opportunity to develop … skills that will be useful in the future because…

Section 3 Activities and Timescales

The Project plan must be clear and concise with all the main tasks in appropriate order and described in detail e.g.

• project planning,

• secondary research with details

• primary research with details,

• writing the Research Review,

• writing the Bibliography,

• analysing information found and drawing conclusions,

• writing up the Discussion, Conclusion, Introduction and Abstract sections (dissertation)

• creating, refining, rehearsing, presenting and recording the performance (performance)

• collecting feedback (performance)

• writing up the Development,and Conclusion, sections (performance)

• developing the artefact (refining spec with respect to materials, techniques, processes and design. Encountering problems, experimenting with possible solutions and recording the process on annotated design sheets, sketchbook or workbook (artefact)

• production (artefact)

• testing and recording results (artefact)

• writing the Development section (artefact)

• evaluating the project and own learning and writing up the Evaluation section,

• checking and re-drafting,

• preparing material for the Presentation and rehearsing it.

With an appropriate time span for each task.

If you plan this in weeks don't exceed the number left before final submission on 14th December.

If you plan it in hours remember that the examiner expects you to spend about 60 hours in all.

Allow extra time in case anything goes wrong.

Once the project is underway you will transfer this plan to an Edexcel Project Plan sheet or Gantt chart showing calendar weeks, then regularly monitor and update it fulfilling the requirement that progress is monitored against the original plan and adjustments made to the plan where necessary thus showing a high level of organisational ability and time management skills.

Milestones

Think about two clear, dated and achievable milestones and pencil them in on the form. They will need to be agreed with your Tutor Assessor.

Milestone 1 - by 29th March 2023

(e.g., Secondary research completed and written up, Primary research (if any) underway, Activity Log well underway, Personal 1st Milestone, if any, associated with your specific dissertation)

Milestone 2 - by 7th June 2023

(e.g., Primary research (if any) completed, Written Report well underway: Research Review, Discussion section, Conclusion, Bibliography, Personal 2nd milestone associated with your specific Dissertation)

Section 4 - Resources

The resources you will need and what they will be used for.

e.g. School Library and Watford Library for access to books on....

Computer for access to Internet to research into…

JStor and Google Scholars for access to academic articles on....

Microsoft Word to write my report

Microsoft PowerPoint to support my Presentation

Upload a scan of your counter-signed Project Proposal Form by 25th December.

Find below a blank version of the Proposal Form.

Please DOWNLOAD the form before writing on it.

It is important that the title is in the working of a question, commission or design brief.

The candidate and their tutor-assessor should agree on two milestones, which should be recorded in section three of the form.

The final section of the form should be signed by

1. The tutor-assessor

2. The centre-proposal checker Mrs Faisal or Mrs Mullett.

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Project Proposal Form