This written plan will help guide your project across the term up until your 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 organising the Occupational Therapy Graduate Conference.

All team members will also complete a formative Practice Self and Peer Assessment (SPA, not marked) in the Week 5 class to enable your supervisor to support your project team functioning.

Your tasks:

• 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 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.

A written report authored by all members of your project team is the major deliverable for your project partner organisation in this unit. In addition to the report, all student project team members will complete an individual graded Self and Peer Assessment (SPA). You will also individually document your Work Integrated Learning (WIL) hours associated with your community project by completing the OCCT14004 Moodle wiki. You must demonstrate that you have achieved the 150 hours minimum towards your 1000 hours of professional practice required to graduate.

1. Written Report (Group component):

In your project team, you will produce a written report expanding on the content to be discussed in your conference presentation. Your team will seek and incorporate feedback from teaching staff and your project partners on draft sections of your report to ensure your content is appropriate for your partner organisation before submission for marking. 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 your partner organisation.

Project Report context:

There is no word limit 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 and terminology 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.

CB84 coversheet:

All team members must sign the occupational therapy CB84 assignment cover sheet to be submitted by one member of the team as an additional file separately to your Project Report.

Written Report Sections:

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:

• Version History table
• Table of contents
• Abstract (you may use your conference presentation abstract for the report if it is suitable)
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

2. Graded Self and Peer Assessment (SPA) individual component:

• Your work this term will be the result of a significant team effort. You will complete a summative Self and Peer Assessment (SPA) of yourself and your team peers’ roles throughout the entire project.
• For the best possible ratings from your peers, you must contribute to your project team consistently and professionally across the whole duration of your community project.
• Please ensure that you follow the guidelines provided on Moodle for giving your peers constructive feedback and provide comments to support your ratings.
• The Week 13 SPA will be summatively graded and forms part of the individual component of this task as a way to measure Learning Outcome 4.
• You will be given an opportunity to practice giving feedback in a formative (non-graded) SPA in the Week 5 class. Both the formative and summative SPA will be submitted individually online.
• You must provide a brief narrative feedback statement along with the numerical ratings to justify your ratings 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 graded Self and Peer Evaluation (SPA) by the due date. If you do not complete the graded SPA by the due date, you cannot obtain any marks for this section of the rubric.

3. Work Integrated Learning (WIL) hours (individual component):

Most students have previously used a Moodle wiki to record evidence of WIL hours for OCCT12003. The Moodle wiki for OCCT14004 is laid out in a similar fashion.

• You will edit your individual wiki page to detail the tasks you have done and the hours you have spent on each task.
• Activities that you can include in the wiki are listed on Moodle- you can discuss with teaching staff any activities you are not sure are eligible for WIL.
• Please ensure you document the hours that you have spent on conference planning and organisation, as this task is eligible to count towards your WIL hours.
• You must detail how you accumulated your individual hours of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) associated with the project across the term for sign off by the Unit Coordinator.
• You must document a minimum of 150 hours for the project. The WIL hours are not graded however the 150 hour minimum requirement ensures that you meet the total 1000 hours of professional practice required to graduate.

IMPORTANT: Any student with less than the 150 hours of documented WIL will be expected to perform additional online simulation tasks to meet the minimum hours requirement. It is critical that you regularly record your weekly WIL hours to ensure you are on track to meet the minimum hours requirement.

Group component marks

• Abstract provides an overview of project purpose, process and outcomes. (5 marks)
• Provides a description of partner organisation's 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 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)

Overview and Purpose:

All students will be part of a project team in this unit, communicating with community stakeholders towards achieving their organisation's goals for services. Disseminating the work you have done is crucial when sharing skills and new knowledge for occupational therapy practice. The graduate conference is designed to be a memorable conclusion to your coursework and 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. Achieving your project objectives, planning the graduate conference and navigating challenges within your team 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 as part of your record of learning during this unit. You will choose one of these for marking as the individual component of the presentation task. You will select a date to present your reflection orally in class in Weeks 6-9 and 11. This individual component is worth 10 marks.
2. Conference Presentation and Organisation: Organising and participating in the Conference Day will provide an opportunity for your team to disseminate the results of your project to your stakeholders and to wider occupational therapy professional networks. You will collaborate with your team to prepare your conference PowerPoint presentation to deliver at Conference Day. The group presentation component is worth 70 marks. There are 20 individual marks for how well you carry out your role helping to organise Conference Day. You must keep the unit coordinator regularly informed across the term of the progress of your allocated conference planning tasks so you can be marked appropriately.

Seeking and responding to feedback:
You will be able to obtain formative feedback for individual and group components when meeting with your University Educator. You will be expected to discuss your draft PowerPoint slides with teaching staff before Conference Day to make suggested improvements.

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)