Attributes of Outstanding Project

Outstanding projects:

• Recognize students' inherent drive to learn, their capability to do important work, and their need to be taken seriously by putting them at the center of the learning process.
  
• Engage students in the central concepts and principles of a discipline. The project work is central rather than peripheral to the curriculum.
  
• Highlight provocative issues or questions that lead students to in-depth exploration of authentic and important topics.
  
• Require the use of essential tools and skills, including technology, for learning, self-management, and project management.
  
• Specify products that solve problems, explain dilemmas, or present information generated through investigation, research, or reasoning.
  
• Include multiple products that permit frequent feedback and consistent opportunities for students to learn from experience.
  
• Use performance-based assessments that communicate high expectations, present rigorous challenges, and require a range of skills and knowledge.
  
• Encourage collaboration in some form, either through small groups, student-led presentations, or whole-class evaluations of project results.

BIE: Project Based Learning: Handbook: Introduction to Project Based Learning