Final Project Evaluation Exemplars

Final Project Evaluation Questions

Your Final Evaluation is your opportunity to analyse the successes and flaws of your project; to justify all the decisions you made, including making amendments to your original plans and the reasons why you may have done so; consider where you may have made errors and explain the strategies you took to solve problems you encountered; and evaluate the quality of the final outcomes of your project.

You should use these questions as a starting point for your evaluation, however your project was individual and unique to you so you will need to develop and adapt them. You might also want to develop your own questions to demonstrate some originality and independence. 

YOUR PROJECT EVALUATION SHOULD BE ONE PIECE OF TEXT, SIMILAR TO AN ESSAY. EVALUATION IS WORTH 25% OF YOUR OVERALL GRADE, THIS NEEDS TO BE A SUBSTANTIAL PIECE OF REFLECTIVE WRITING. RECOMMENDED WORD COUNT OF APPROX. 1500, BUT THE RELEVANCE AND QUALITY OF YOUR REFLECTIONS AND EVALUATIONS ARE KEY.

1. What would a successful FMP project look like to you? 

   • Give me 3 criteria to measure if your work is a success. 

2. What is the result of your FMP work this term? 

   • Is your project similar to any real world influences? 

   • Can you compare / contrast your work to real world examples. 

3. Can you explain some key decisions you made that had an impact on your project? 

   • How did you come to that decision? What factors influenced your decision? 

   • If I said that was the wrong decision, what would your argument be to persuade me your idea is the right one? 

4. Can you evaluate your planning. 

   • Did your project follow your plan? What factors effected this? If not why not? How could you stay on track better in future? 

   • Were there any 'happy accidents' from deviating and doing something different. 

5. Can you evaluate your problem solving. 

   • Tell us about any problems you had. What steps did you take to overcome it? 

   • How could you have prevented this? 

6. What are the best features of your project?

   • What are you most proud of? How did you achieve this?

   • What did you personally contribute to these successful features?

7. What flaws did your project have?

   • What were the reasons for this?

   • How could you have prevented these? 

   • How could you improve these with more time? 

8. What types of research did you do, and why? 

   • What have you learned regarding the use and importance of research during your project?

   • How did your research help you to acquire new knowledge?

   • What new knowledge have you gained through this project? (through research or otherwise)

   • How can you apply this knowledge to future projects?

9. What skills have you developed during this project? 

   • How could these skills support your career and lead to work in the industry? 

   • Did you work on any weaknesses? If yes, how? 

   • What did you improve as you worked on your project?

10. What was it like collaborating with other people? 

    • Pros / cons

    • Learning and development? 

    • What did you gain from your collaboration with others?

11. Look back at your project proposal and presentation.  

    • Did your project achieve your project aim / criteria you set out in your proposal?  

    • If yes, what where the contributing factors.  

    • If no, explain how and why you deviated from your original plan. 

12. Projects can be successful in many ways such as financial, artistic, collaborative, well-reviewed, opportunity for growth and development. 

• In which ways was your project a success?  

•  What factors made it a success / unsuccessful? 

•  What didn’t go so well and what have you learned from this? Give examples.

• How can you use your experience of this project as a strength for future projects? Give examples.

13. Evaluating the final outcomes of your project.

11. • How do you rate the quality of your final product(s)?

    • What are you pleased with / proud of?

    • What would you improve or change about your project if you had more time? 

14. What do you think the point was of doing an independent free choice project? 

11. • Would you undertake a similar project in the future?   Why? / Why not?

    • Has this project helped you to progress any of your wider aims and ambitions as a musician? If yes, how are you going to build upon what you have learned from this experience?