Final Project Reflection

This reflection is your opportunity to look back on the team project experience, evaluate your learning and contributions, and provide insights into the team dynamics. It's a chance for introspection and to assess the overall journey of the project.

Steps for Completion

Read the following list to trigger your memory or thoughts about your experiences in this course, then complete the Final Reflection form in Gradescope.

  1. Review Past Materials:

    • Revisit your weekly reflections and team sprint reports to recollect the progress, challenges, and developments over the term.

  2. Planning

    • Reflect on the initial vision for the project.
    • Discuss how the final project differed from the original plan.
    • Consider changes in features, scope, or direction and what influenced these changes.

  3. Challenges

    • Identify the hardest aspects of the project.
    • Reflect on your personal struggles, whether technical, collaborative, or conceptual.
    • Be honest and specific about the challenges faced.

  4. Personal Accomplishments

    • Discuss your personal contributions and achievements in the project.
    • Highlight what you are most proud of, such as overcoming a challenge, a particular feature you worked on, or a skill you developed.

  5. Learning about Software

    • Reflect on the technical skills or software knowledge you gained.
    • Discuss any new programming concepts, tools, or methodologies you learned.

  6. Learning about Teamwork and Project Management

    • Share insights gained about teamwork and project management.
    • Reflect on aspects like collaboration, communication, time management, and conflict resolution.

  7. Learning from Teammates

    • Discuss something valuable you learned from your teammates.
    • This could be a technical skill, a teamwork strategy, or a different perspective.

  8. Feedback for Teammates

    • Provide constructive feedback for your teammates.
    • Focus on their contributions, work approach, or collaboration style.

  9. Self Rating

    • Rate your own level of contribution (Strong, Appropriate, Weak, No contribution).
    • Justify your rating with specific examples or explanations.

  10. Peer Rating

  • Rate each teammate’s contribution to the project.
  • Provide names and assign ratings (Strong, Appropriate, Weak, None).
  • Include explanations for your scores.

Writing Tips

  • Be reflective and honest in your responses.
  • Use specific examples to illustrate your points.
  • Write clearly and concisely, focusing on your personal experience and learnings.
  • Maintain a respectful and constructive tone, especially when providing feedback.

Reminder

  • This reflection is an individual assignment and should be your own thoughts and assessments.
  • It's not just about evaluating the project's outcome but also about understanding your growth, learning, and the dynamics of working within a team.

Evaluation Rubric

1. Completeness and Depth of Content (35 Points)

  • Exceptional (32-35 points): Provides a comprehensive reflection covering all questions with in-depth insights. Demonstrates thorough recollection and understanding of the entire project journey, personal achievements, and team dynamics.
  • Proficient (28-31 points): Covers most aspects of the reflection questions with good detail and understanding, but may lack depth in one area.
  • Adequate (22-27 points): Addresses all questions but with superficial depth or missing nuances in some responses.
  • Needs Improvement (15-21 points): Omits significant aspects of the reflection questions or provides only basic responses with little depth.
  • Unsatisfactory (0-14 points): Fails to address multiple questions adequately, showing a lack of engagement or understanding of the project.

2. Insightfulness and Personal Growth (30 Points)

  • Exceptional (27-30 points): Offers profound insights into personal growth, challenges faced, and learning experiences. Demonstrates significant self-awareness and a deep understanding of team and project dynamics.
  • Proficient (22-26 points): Shows clear understanding and reflection on personal experiences and team interactions with relevant and well-articulated insights.
  • Adequate (16-21 points): Reflections contain some insights, but they may be somewhat superficial or not fully explored.
  • Needs Improvement (10-15 points): Offers limited insights, with minimal reflection on personal and team experiences.
  • Unsatisfactory (0-9 points): Lacks meaningful insights, failing to reflect thoughtfully on personal experiences, team dynamics, and project learnings.

3. Writing Quality and Clarity (20 Points)

  • Exceptional (18-20 points): Exceptionally well-written, adhering to the 7 Cs of Communication, engaging, and free of errors.
  • Proficient (14-17 points): Well-structured and clear, adhering to most of the 7 Cs with minor errors that do not detract from overall communication.
  • Adequate (10-13 points): Meets basic standards of clarity and coherence, but may have some issues with conciseness, concreteness, or minor grammatical errors.
  • Needs Improvement (5-9 points): Lacks clarity or coherence in several areas, or has multiple grammatical or structural errors.
  • Unsatisfactory (0-4 points): Poor writing quality, lacking in clarity, coherence, and correctness, with significant errors.

4. Self and Peer Evaluation (15 Points)

  • Exceptional (13-15 points): Provides a well-justified self-rating and thoughtful, fair peer evaluations with specific examples.
  • Proficient (10-12 points): Offers a reasonable self-rating and peer evaluations with some justification.
  • Adequate (7-9 points): Basic self-rating and peer evaluations provided but lack depth or detailed justification.
  • Needs Improvement (4-6 points): Minimal effort in self and peer evaluation, with little to no justification.
  • Unsatisfactory (0-3 points): Inadequate or missing self and peer evaluations, showing a lack of engagement or reflection.

Total Points Possible: 100

Submitting Your Work

Your work must be submitted Anchor for degree credit and to Gradescope for grading.

  1. Export your Final Project Reflection from Google Docs as a PDF.
  2. Upload the PDF to Gradescope via the appropriate submission link for the course.
  3. Upload the PDF to Anchor using the form below.

Note: Anchor submissions can occur at any time during the term, but it is critical that you upload all of your work to Anchor before the last day of the term. Gradescope submissions must be submitted before the deadline (or the late deadline, if applicable).