Project+Evaluation

1. A) List the five goals from your formal proposal. - I want to figure out what my project will be, meaning what type of project I want to do. should it be a survey, a mini presentation on orphan awareness? - I want to continue research - along the lines of what is really said about orphaned children. - I want to gather more statistical evidence - I want to find more psychological evaluations - I want to figure out commonalities along with differences between adopted children.

B) Prove that you met each of these goals or thoroughly explain why you did not. - I decided to interview 5 girls and ask them all the same questions, each girl was not able talk with the others until my video taping was done. I chose for them not to speak to one another because I did not want one person to have the ability to sway anothers thoughts. - I continued my research and found different statistics on how many children are adopted, how many children are left on the streets, how many children run into "high risk categories" so on and so forth. Unfortunately during my actual presentation my nerves got the best of me towards the beginning which then interfered with my relaying abilities for these statistics. - I was able to gather more statistical evidence, it was just not relayed to my classmates in the way that I would have wanted. - I did not find to many more physiological evaluations, this was not due to lack of information on the web, but it was because It was not necessary for presentation, nor my project. - I was able to find many commonalities amongst the girls that I interview, and was able to show my fellow classmates what they were in the viewing of my final project.

II. What did you seek for advice on this project? Did you improve at asking for feedback's? - I asked many of my fellow peers for advice, along with both my aunt and mother. Yes, I improved greatly on asking for feedback, at first I was nervous to ask for constructive criticism, however, i found that the feedback was important and beneficial to my overall success.

III. Describe any risks you took in order to complete this project. Be sure to consider emotional, intellectual or physical challenges. - I took an emotional risk with my project with not only myself but with the fellow peers involved, i wanted to ask questions that made them think about their past, and their adoptions, however I did worry that I might have been stirring the pot every now and then, and did not want to step on any toes. The physical challenges were just finding times and places where I could interview my fellow peers, timing and dates were difficult to settle upon.

IV. List and describe three personal satisfactions you have gained from doing this project. 1. Self growth- I believe that I grew emmensly from this project, I learned a lot more about myself, and how I view my family both biological, and adoptive, along with learning about others both in my situation, and not. 2. Time management - Like most adolescents my age procrastination is not a new concept for me, but with this project I found that I really needed to manage my time so that I was not ever stuck in a poor situation where I felt like I was going to be rushed in finishing any of my assignments.

V. Explain two problems you encountered and how you solved them. 1. Who to interview - I wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to interview my peers alone, or with their parents as well. I settled on just interviewing the adolescent because I did not wish to anger any parents unintentionally of course. I found that my results in my project were still substantial and proved a point. 2. General Nervousness- I found that as time crept closer to my actual presentation day, and I practiced in the comfort of my own home, I would second guess myself on the information I had already studied and learned. I needed to work on trying to calm myself down if I was going to be able to present.

VI. What did you learn about managing your time? - As I had already addressed earlier, I learned that time management for a project such as this was was my key to success. If i wanted to stay on track and not feel like I was rushed or missing any assignments I needed to stay on track! a big part of my semester was trying to stay on the ball and managing my time well.

VII. What did you learn about managing your level of stress? - My main thing on managing my stress was just to breathe. I needed to remember to breathe! and If i felt that I was getting frustrated or stressed I turned to my mentor along with my aunt for guidance and help.

VIII. If you could do the same project over again, what would you do differently? - I would have liked to interview more people and diversify to both boys and girls.

IX. Grade yourself based on the stated goals of the course - to encourage higher order thinking skills such as application of knowledge, analysis of judgments. What grade do you deserve and why?

- I would had loved to receive an A, however realistically I believe I deserved a B+ or B. I certainly learned a great deal about myself, along with my peers, learned better time and stress managment skills, and learned how to ask for helpppppp when I needed it most. And finally I was pleased with my overall presentation, though I wish I could have calmed myself down a little more at the beginning of my actual presentation, I believe that would have made for a nicer flow though ought the whole presentation instead of the bit of choppiness I had.