48024 assessment criteria, autumn 2007

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The marking and assessment of your project will be delivered through the online assessment and feedback tool, ReView. It contains a specific set of criteria for each assessment task that should guide your project work. Please make sure that you take careful note of these criteria while doing your project! This ReView tool allows students to self-assess on the same criteria, and to view both their own and the instructor's assessment. The big plus with this tool is that it provides students with qualitative feedback on their progress, against a set of carefully chosen learning criteria that are linked to graduate attributes. Note that the awarding of a numeric mark for each assessment task may be delayed until the end of semester, as this tool emphasises qualitative and constructive feedback to students to assist your learning. Please bear in mind that this is the first time we are using this tool in this subject, and there may be some fine-tuning along the way.

Note: all projects are of equal difficulty. This is because they are all programs that could potentially be taken much further than any team could realistically implement in this subject. One of your goals, then, is to carefully follow the miniature Unified Process and the recommended techniques in order to achieve a useful and working program within the available time. A carefully-planned and executed project will achieve a higher mark than one in which team members work like crazy but in an ad-hoc manner.