Project Work-Exploring Processes, Practices and Strategies

by Anitha Devi Pillai

Project Work provides a firm grounding in critical literacy, encourages collaboration with others, and fosters learner independence. This is a first publication by Junior College Project Work (Grades 11 and 12) researchers and practitioners in Singapore. The editors and contributors come from a wide range of disciplines and theoretical beliefs, and as such, have a synergy of knowledge that aptly encapsulates the nature of project-based learning.

Taking a selective rather than a comprehensive focus to Project Work-as it would be a task we would have to engage in for a lifetime if we tried to capture all the facets of multi-disciplinary project-based learning-it describes the nature, processes, outcomes, research and resources in this subject.

Target Audience:- Department: Education Level: In-service education professionals, pre-service educators, practitioners of team-building activities, creative educators, research student, facilitator, or any reader looking for further information on issues and practices of project-based learning in Junior College.

Text Type: Main Text Salient Features: This is a first publication by Junior College Project Work researchers and practitioners in Singapore. Covers a fairly extensive spectrum of concepts, practices and skills ranging from those that relate to the processes as well as to the products of project work to the vital components of research techniques and tools, and assessment rubrics. Insight to the knowledge and expertise of experienced supervising tutors in junior colleges with suggested scheme of work and framework for different aspects of assessments.

An easy reference for both teachers and students

TABLE OF CONTENTS
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Foreword Prof. Anthony Seow
Foreword Prof. Agnes Chang
Preface Acknowledgement
Introduction Dr.Tan Oon Seng

SECTION I-NATURE OF PROJECT WORK IN JUNIOR COLLEGES
1 Junior College Project Work Framework
Anitha Devi Pillai
2 Assessing Information Literacy Skills in Project Work
Mary Ellis
3 What s the Big Idea with Project Work Anyway?
Jasvinder K Dhillon
4 Project Work as Praxis: The Challenge for Educators
Ann Yin En Yeong
5 Integration of Project Work and General Paper
Wong Mun Wah, Sim Hock Seng Steven, Jennifer Liou-Lim Choon Yeoh, Samsiah Sanip, Eliza Gunasagaran, Patrick Timothy David

SECTION 2-UNDERSTANDING PROCESSES
6 Critical Reading and Project Work
Maha Sripathy
7 The Importance of Literature review in the Research Process
Dharmine Dhadchana Moorthy
8 Evaluating and Managing Sources
Mary Ellis
9 Data Collection: Tools, Processes & Presentation
Jarina Peer
10 The Four Components of a Successful Oral Presentation
Chue Kah Loong

SECTION 3-DEVELOPING THE PRODUCTS
11 Applying The Delphi Technique in Preliminary Ideas
Osric Mooi
12 Group Project Proposal: An Essential Step for A Successful Project
Teo Aik Cher
13 Developing a Structure in Assessing Group Project File
Prabha Naidu Veragoo Tolosi
14 Understanding the Academic Writing Conventions and Task Requirements of the Written Report
Anitha Devi Pillai
15 Oral Presentation and Assessment: The Assessor s Role in Questioning Arzami Bin Salim

SECTION 4-RESEARCH
16 What Sort of Research Skills Do Students Believe They Have Acquired From Project Work?
Anitha Devi Pillai
17 Evaluating Project Work: Research Tools for Schools, Project Work Committees & Supervising Tutors
Monica Sharma Menon

SECTION 5-RESOURCES FOR SUPERVISING TUTORS
18 Classroom Activities to Facilitate Project Based Learning
Patrice Palmer
Appendix A ORAL PRESENTATION RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS AND SUPERVISING TUTORS
Mary Ellis
Appendix B FURTHER READING

204 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2008

About the author

Anitha Devi Pillai (Ph.D.) wears many hats. She's an author, academic, translator and poet. She currently teaches writing pedagogy and writing at the National Institute of Education (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore).

Some of her 2020 publications are an English translation of Kamaladevi Aravindan’s historical Tamil novel, titled ‘Sembawang' (Marshall Cavendish International Asia), an anthology of short stories titled 'A View of Stars: Stories of Love' (Marshall Cavendish International Asia) which she co-edited with Felix Cheong and a non-fiction book titled 'The Story of Onam' (Indian Heritage Centre, National Heritage Board, Singapore).

She is currently working on her own collection of short stories and editing an anthology of short stories for young adults. Both books are slated to be released in the latter half of 2021.