Meeting purpose
- Review progress since the first meeting, refine deliverables, and address challenges to stay on track with the project timeline
Meeting agenda
- Review progress made on tasks identified during the first progress meeting
- Go over your report to ensure that it meets expecations
- Review progress made on tasks identified during the first progress meeting
- Discuss deliverables and any updates to the project proposal
- Address challenges encountered and brainstorm solutions
- Confirm the next set of tasks and milestones for the project
Instructions
To ensure a productive discussion, before your second progress meeting, you are required to complete the following:
- Submit a draft of your report:
- Prepare the first draft of your report incorporating feedback from the first progress meeting
- The report is expected to include all sections outlined in the rubric, with placeholders for incomplete parts or section
- As discussed in the first progress meeting, pay attention to the result section where you need to provide sub-headings for your results and under each subheading include figure and table captions that reflect the figures and tables you are intending to produce later
- As discussed in the first progress meeting, you need to provide sub-headings for your discussion section
- Ensure that your report reflects any updates to your deliverables
- Upload your report to your folder on Teams before the meeting
- Prepare an update on progress:
- Summarize the work you have completed since the first meeting in slides
- Identify any tasks that were delayed or modified and explain why
- Identify Challenges:
- Be ready to discuss any difficulties you have faced, such as data collection issues, methodological hurdles, or time management concerns
- Update your timeline:
- Adjust your project timeline as needed to account for progress made and unforeseen delays
- Highlight key tasks and milestones to achieve by the third progress meeting
Grading
- Progress meetings will be graded according to the rubric in the syllabus.
- Ensure that you demonstrate progress, address challenges effectively, and actively engage in planning the next steps.
- To receive credit, after each meeting, use the rubric to grade yourself and upload your grade on Canvas within 24 hours.
- The instructor’s evaluation will serve as the final grade, but your self-assessment will be reviewed to provide feedback and address any discrepancies.
Next step
This meeting ensures that you remain on track with the project and have clear, actionable goals. During this discussion, tasks will be agreed upon for the third progress meeting