• Guiding Student Work
• Project Registration, Grading
• Framing the IQP
• Giving Feedback to Students
• Teamwork Tips & Tools
• Research Methods
• Writing Guidelines and Aids
• Materials Specifically for Off-Campus IQPs
• IQP Handbook
• Workshops
• IQP Assessments
• Related Sites
  • Research at Gordon Library
  • Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division
  • Projects Program
  • Center for Communication Across the Curriculum

Framing the IQP

This section contains resources that can help students frame their projects. Students should determine how their work fits into a larger body of research on the topic and define their objectives and research questions.

Clarity about project objectives is important and can be facilitated through exercises for students that ask them to operationalize project objectives/research questions.

• Project Objectives/Resarch Questions (Word Document), (PDF)
• Mission Statement exercise (Word Document), (PDF)      
• Problem Statement exercise (Word Document), (PDF)           

Students can also be given materials to further their understandings of how to develop:

• Effective Goals (Word Document), (PDF)       
• Clarify their Project Goal (Word Document), (PDF)

A Lesson Plan for Discussing Problem Analysis can be used with students in the early stages of project conceptualization. This is especially useful when dealing with externally sponsored projects.

• Discussing Problem Analysis (Word Document), (PDF)     

An interim project planning report is a useful tool for helping students organize and communicate their understanding of the project, its major elements, and next steps.

• Project Planning report (Word Document), (PDF)

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