This page contains links to documents and resources intended to be useful to IQP advisors. In keeping with the collaborative spirit of the IQP, this represents the work of dozens of WPI faculty members. None of this, of course, presents the only way to approach IQP advising.
IQP advisors are invited to adopt these materials for their own purposes, and to send along any materials they might wish to contribute.
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II: Setting Expectations for Process and Products
III: Teamwork, Tips, and Tools
VI: Getting Feedback From Students
VII: Materials for Off-Campus IQPs
VIII: Miscellaneous Stuff
Basic information about the IQP—Undergraduate Catalog information, including descriptions of the different IQP Divisions.
WPI Projects Website—where faculty can submit project proposals, and students can search for them.
Setting Expectations for Process and Products
IQP Expectations and Grading—one example
Project Grade Policy—another example
Yet another grading policy
Sample meeting agenda with expectations and grading discussion
Expectations for meetings—including advice on process, agendas, minutes, etc.
Writing a Technical Report—some guidelines for creating and formatting reports in Microsoft Word
APA Style Guidelines—a commonly-used editorial style for writing in the social and behavioral sciences
MLA Guidelines—another widely-accepted standard for research papers
Hints
for Teamwork—adapted from Felder
Peer formative assessment—aimed at helping advisors to diagnose and address teamwork issues
Peer summative assessment—aimed at helping advisors to evaluate individual contributions and effort
Teamwork assignment 1—to help students begin to think about teamwork issues
Teamwork assignment 2—to help student teams formulate agreements for how to work together
IQP Proposal Guidelines, from the IQP Handbook
Writing a Literature Review, from the IQP Handbook
Tips for writing an IQP proposal
Some general guidance on responding to student writing in narrative form
Examples of narrative responses to student writing
Examples of mid-project performance feedback
Examples of end-of-project assessment
Student Self- and Team Evaluation forms
Peer formative assessment—aimed at helping advisors to diagnose and address teamwork issues
Peer summative assessment—aimed at helping advisors to evaluate individual contributions and effort
PQP/ID 2050 Expectations and Grading for off-campus projects
Guidelines for off-campus IQPs
Sample syllabus for PQP and ID 2050
IQP Handbook—a comprehensive guide to the objectives, expectations, process, methods of IQPs for students and advisors
Searchable database of IQP abstracts—listing projects from 1998 to the (almost) present.
Winners of the WPI President’s IQP Awards from 1998 to the (almost) present.
IQP Evaluation Form used for IQP Program Reviews
Lessons learned from successful on-campus advisors
Presentation from IQP Advising Workshop, February 2004
This page is maintained by
Rick Vaz (vaz@wpi.edu).
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