This written plan will help guide your project across the term up until the final Project Report is submitted. It will ensure your team is clear about allocation of tasks, timelines for completion and allows sufficient time for stakeholder input to the project design. Evaluation is a vital process for the development and sustainability of community-based programs. As you develop your community project you will become familiar with a range of different evaluation methods and common project management tools. You will research and explain a variety of strategies to be incorporated into your community project:

• Evaluation methods and their underpinning theoretical concepts appropriate to your project design.
• Key Performance Indicators to measure the project outcomes.
• Project Risk Identification and Management to problem solve anticipated issues that may impact progress of the project.
• Dates of expected project stages and task allocation within the team using a Gannt chart.
• A summary in the Gannt chart of the role/s allocated to each member of your team in planning and carrying out the Week 13 Graduate Conference.

All team members will also complete a Practice Self and Peer Assessment (SPA, not marked) as part of this task and to enable your supervisor to support your project team functioning.

• In Week 2, your team must consult with your University educator to select appropriate evaluation methods.
• Use the Project Plan template to document all required individual and group components of the Project Plan.
• Work with your project team members to ensure your submitted plan is comprehensive and cohesive.
• Complete a Practice SPA for yourself and your project team (not graded).

More details about the requirements of the task are available on Moodle.

Criteria will be applied to individual and group components of this task as per the marking rubric available on Moodle.

• Introduction provides an overview of the Project Plan (5 marks)
• Provides a general description of the evaluation method (2 X 10 marks)
• Provides a rationale for use of the method in your project (2 X 10 marks)
• KPIs are justified, relevant, measurable, clearly prioritised and linked to project timeline tasks (10 marks)
• Risks identified are realistic, stated objectively and professionally with appropriate management strategies planned for the project duration (10 marks)
• Written work meets professional standards for terminology use, articulation and flow of ideas, spelling & grammatical conventions. (2 X 5 marks)
• Use of relevant evidence from a broad range of high-quality sources including evidence based occupational therapy and other literature (2 X 5 marks)
• Referencing adheres to APA 6 or APA 7 style for in-text citations and reference list. (2 X 5 marks)
• Report presentation and organisation of content addresses formatting guidelines (5 marks)

Overview and Purpose:

All students will be part of a project team in this unit, communicating with project stakeholders towards achieving their organisation's goals for community-based services. This task is designed to help you progress from student to independent occupational therapy practitioner.

Important features of independent practitioners are that they

• can articulate that occupational therapy is a fluid and responsive process that requires constant adaptation to change.
• are comfortable with a level of uncertainty that requires us to engage our collaborative problem solving and higher-level thinking capacities.
• independently prepare, reflect, plan and act with staged support rather than direct instruction.
• actively seek and respond to feedback
  
• utilise highly developed oral communication and self-reflective skills to engage with clients, colleagues and supervisors.

You will be required to verbally demonstrate these skills while participating in a range of experiences that will challenge and stretch your current skills and knowledge. The project will not always be a comfortable or easy process. However, it is important that your attitude towards learning from your project experiences remains professional.

The Presentation task contains individual and group components:

1. Oral Action Learning Cycle Reflection: You will prepare individual regular Action Learning Cycle reflections to present orally in class and in your project team meetings. You will choose one of these for marking as the individual component of the presentation task. This individual component is worth 10 marks.
2. Conference Presentation: You will prepare your team conference PowerPoint presentation to deliver at the annual graduate conference. The student graduate conference will provide an opportunity for your team to disseminate the results of your project to your stakeholders and to wider occupational therapy professional networks. The group component is worth 70 marks. There are 20 individual marks for how well you carry out your role helping to organise Conference Day.

More details regarding your presentation content requirements are available on Moodle.

Group component:

• Presents an informative description of project process and outcomes. (20 marks)
• Key performance indicators and achievement status are presented. (20 marks)
• Provides future developments and recommendations. (10 marks)
• Oral content is organised and flows to align with slides. (5 marks)
• Visual presentation of slides is professional and attractively balanced between text and images. (5 marks)
• Speakers are articulate and confidently progress transitions between presentation team members. (5 marks)
• Team members actively manage the discussion time. (5 marks)

Individual component:

• Orally communicates an appropriate level of critical reflection for significant events using the Action Learning Cycle model. (10 marks)
• Carries out expected role for conference organisation. (20 marks)

Overview and Purpose.

A written report is the final deliverable of your capstone project for this unit.

In your project team, you will produce a project report expanding on the content summarised in your conference presentation. You will include all documents generated and sourced to support your project. You will adhere strictly to the report formatting guidelines to prepare the written document ready for sharing with the partner organisation. You will complete a graded Self and Peer Assessment (SPA) in regards to your team functioning for the entire project.

Project Report context:

There is no word count for this report. The report is a significant outcome of your project that will require attention to detail and extensive documentation of information. It is expected that all your project report documents together may total approximately 10,000 words or more. The preparation of all documents is expected to be shared between your project team members.

When you are collating your report, consider that this project may be one component of a larger, long term future student project. The project may eventually span several years. You will include copies of all documents generated and sourced to support the project in numbered Appendices. Time will be made available to work on this report throughout term and your preparation will need to begin from Week 1.

Important note about the report writing style required:

Please write the report from the perspective that your team has been acting as advocates for your partner organisation. Do not include your personal perspective as students in this report, which is inappropriate. Refer to yourselves collectively as the project team, and not as students. It is expected you will use a consistent third person past tense throughout the report, and use professional rather than colloquial terminology. Use referencing and careful stating of any claims made in the report so there is objective and non-emotive presentation of facts and events relating to the project. If in doubt, please consult teaching staff for ideas on how to present sensitive or potentially provocative information.

Group component content:

A detailed explanation of the content requirements for each section of the report is included in the project report template and task sheet available on Moodle. The report will contain all of the following sections:

• Occupational therapy assignment cover page
• Version History table
• Table of contents
• Abstract
• Description of partner organisations
• Needs analysis processes
• Theoretical underpinnings
• Project scoping
• Evaluation methodology, data collected and ethical considerations
• Project Risk identification and management strategies
• Changes to original project scoping
• Project Key Performance Indicators and achievement status
• Outstanding tasks
• Future developments and recommendations
• List of contributors
• References and Bibliography
• Numbered Appendices

List of contributors:

You will provide a table documenting which team member was primarily responsible for each section. You may include secondary contributors as long as there has been more than a rudimentary role for secondary contributors. All students must sign this record to indicate they agree it is a true representation of the distribution of team project tasks. The aim is for all students to contribute appropriately to the shared tasks.

Individual components:

The list of contributors will provide evidence for the individual mark you will receive for your contribution to the project report as per the marking criteria.

Graded Self and Peer Assessment (SPA)
As the project report is a significant team outcome, you will complete a Self and Peer Assessment (SPA) of yourself and your team peers’ roles throughout the duration of the project. It will be submitted individually online. You must provide a brief narrative feedback statement along with the numerical ratings to justify EVERY score for self and peers. Any score (including positive, negative and neutral ratings) that is not justified will be taken into consideration when providing your individual mark. Your explanations will be collated and used to determine the mark for each team member. If you do not provide sufficient explanations for your numerical ratings, it will impact your marks for this component as per the marking rubric available on Moodle.

You MUST complete and submit the Self and Peer Evaluation (SPA) by the due date for Assessment 3. If you do not complete the SPA by the due date, you cannot obtain any marks for this section of the rubric.

You will receive a brief individual written summary of key SPA feedback points from teaching staff when your project report feedback is returned to you.

Group component marks

• Abstract provides an overview of project purpose, process and outcomes. (5 marks)
• Provides a description of partner organisations and stakeholders role in project. (5 marks)
• Needs analysis process is explained. (10 marks)
• Theoretical underpinnings are explained and links to the project are supported by evidence. (10 marks)
• Project timelines, phases, inclusions and exclusions are explained in scoping. (10 marks)
• Evaluation methodology ethical considerations and achievement of KPIs are explained and justified. (10 marks)
• Changes, outstanding tasks and recommendations are supported by professional reasoning. (10 marks)
• Updated SWOT analysis describes suitable risk management strategies. (10 marks)
• Broad range of highly relevant references published within past 10 years adhere to APA 6 or APA 7 style. (5 marks)
• Written communication throughout the report meets professional standards for terminology use, articulation and flow of ideas, spelling & grammatical conventions. (5 marks)
• Additional relevant project resources or documents are included in Appendices. (5 marks)

Individual component marks:

• Evidence is provided of individual contribution to the project report. (5 marks)
• Provides a narrative explanation for SPA ratings. (5 marks)
• Peers provide evidence of individual contribution to team outcomes. (5 marks)