Personal Project: Supervisor Responsibilities

Project Supervisor Roles & Responsibilities

Project supervisors meet and work with students closely throughout the project. They provide guidance to students in terms of all stages of the project including setting learning and product goals, developing meaningful success criteria for their product, plans to achieve the product, identifying approaches to learning skills (ATL) applied to both learning and product goals and in reflection and the final evaluation of the product.

Specific responsibilities of supervisors include:

• ensuring appropriate legal & ethical standards with regard to health and safety, confidentiality, human rights, animal welfare and environmental issues
• giving guidelines about the project & process requirements
• referring to WAB’s timetable with deadlines
• explaining the assessment criteria for the project
• giving advice on how to keep & curate evidence of the process
• emphasizing the importance of personal analysis & reflection
• providing formative feedback throughout the process
• ensuring requirements for academic integrity are met
• confirming the authenticity of work submitted
• assessing the personal project using the criteria
• participating in the standardization and moderation of student work

Supervisors interact with students in person through a minimum of three mandatory meetings as well as a final viva-voce like meeting, however, may also meet with them outside of those times and are expected to communicate with students either through teams or informally in person. 

Formative Feedback

Supervisors should provide formative feedback on the students work and progress throughout the project process, including their process journal work (MyTime), product, report writing and exhibition.