Overview information on projects. HTML Scheduling and deadlines Initial meeting with supervisor: before Friday, Week 2 of Semester 1. Project report submission: 12 noon on Friday, Week 7 of Semester 2. Project talks: Week 10 of Semester 2. Active Project allocations. Guide to honours projects and dissertations in the School of Mathematics [password protected] (note that the dates in the linked document need updating). Students can select projects for the upcoming year towards the end of Semester 2. Students on joint degrees who are interested in doing a project in either school, can take part in the project allocation in both schools and pick the project they like best. Project Organiser The Honours Project organiser is David Siska and the course secretary is Alison Fairgrieve. During the project allocation phase the course organiser is your first point of contant for any questions. Once you've been assigned an advisor they become the first point of contact. If you are in a group project Group projects help students to learn how to work in teams. The normal size of a group for a Year 4 project is four students. Sometimes, groups may consist of 2, 3 or 5 students and this is taken into account when the project is assessed so there is no inherent advantage in being in a large group and no disadvantage in being in a small group. Basic principles The project group must produce a single report and give a presentation on it. These are given a single, overall mark. The group must assign responsibility for the various parts of the project and its members. The challenge of group work is to find ways of using each group member's talents. Each team member must commit fully to the project and normally receives the same mark. Find out more information on different types of projects Individual and Team Contribution By default each member of the group will get the same mark. Peer assesment will be used as a basis to re-allocate up to 20% of the final mark. The peer assesment will be carried out 3x during the project duration starting in Week 6 of Semester 1, see the course Learn page. Unequal mark distribution: Reporting unequal contributions in the peer assesment should only be the *last* resort. Every effort should be made to give opportunity to all group members to provide valuable contributions that, while contributing differently, can be viewed as equally valuable. At most 20% of the mark for the project will be re-allocated. If the results of peer-assessment fall within certain tolerance then no re-adjustment will happen (in particular if everyone rates their own and their peers' contribution equally). If the peer-assment reveals significant discrepancies then the group supervisor will, based on the peer-assesment answers and based on how they judge individual contributions, decide the adjustments. The Board of Examiners may use their judgement to alter the distribution of marks. This article was published on 2025-02-26
HTML Scheduling and deadlines Initial meeting with supervisor: before Friday, Week 2 of Semester 1. Project report submission: 12 noon on Friday, Week 7 of Semester 2. Project talks: Week 10 of Semester 2. Active Project allocations. Guide to honours projects and dissertations in the School of Mathematics [password protected] (note that the dates in the linked document need updating). Students can select projects for the upcoming year towards the end of Semester 2. Students on joint degrees who are interested in doing a project in either school, can take part in the project allocation in both schools and pick the project they like best. Project Organiser The Honours Project organiser is David Siska and the course secretary is Alison Fairgrieve. During the project allocation phase the course organiser is your first point of contant for any questions. Once you've been assigned an advisor they become the first point of contact. If you are in a group project Group projects help students to learn how to work in teams. The normal size of a group for a Year 4 project is four students. Sometimes, groups may consist of 2, 3 or 5 students and this is taken into account when the project is assessed so there is no inherent advantage in being in a large group and no disadvantage in being in a small group. Basic principles The project group must produce a single report and give a presentation on it. These are given a single, overall mark. The group must assign responsibility for the various parts of the project and its members. The challenge of group work is to find ways of using each group member's talents. Each team member must commit fully to the project and normally receives the same mark. Find out more information on different types of projects Individual and Team Contribution By default each member of the group will get the same mark. Peer assesment will be used as a basis to re-allocate up to 20% of the final mark. The peer assesment will be carried out 3x during the project duration starting in Week 6 of Semester 1, see the course Learn page. Unequal mark distribution: Reporting unequal contributions in the peer assesment should only be the *last* resort. Every effort should be made to give opportunity to all group members to provide valuable contributions that, while contributing differently, can be viewed as equally valuable. At most 20% of the mark for the project will be re-allocated. If the results of peer-assessment fall within certain tolerance then no re-adjustment will happen (in particular if everyone rates their own and their peers' contribution equally). If the peer-assment reveals significant discrepancies then the group supervisor will, based on the peer-assesment answers and based on how they judge individual contributions, decide the adjustments. The Board of Examiners may use their judgement to alter the distribution of marks.
