Measuring success 2 - how well did we do?
Read the following case study about a group of students and answer the questions.
Jamie, Elaine, Jackie and Greg decided that they would like to make an information pack about sports facilities in their local community for their 'Working with Others' project. They knew that this sort of information could be found in various places, but there wasn't one resource that pulled it all together.
In the first few weeks they began to collect all of the information leaflets they could find and they had many discussions about how they would present their findings at the end of the project - and they almost fell out with each other before the project had really started. Jackie and Greg wanted to put it on the intranet in their college, but Elaine and Jamie wanted to make an information pack to be kept in the college library. Their tutor settled it by suggesting that they should do both - if they got a move on they would have time to prepare an information pack as well as material for the intranet.
They made a list of all of the sports facilities they knew and looked on the internet and in the local phone book to check if there were any more. They divided the list up between them (it came to about five each) and talked about how they would get the information about these clubs and centres. They decided that as far as possible they would try to visit them so that they could get good quality information and check out the extra things such as shower facilities and catering. This went quite well for a few weeks and they managed to visit about eight clubs and centres. Then Jamie left the college to take a job, so they had to divide up his work between them.
About three weeks before they were due to finish, Elaine's dad mentioned that the university had sports facilities and they also found out about a private tennis club that wasn't in the phone book yet. They had to make arrangements to see these places in a hurry.
Elaine and Greg had not been keeping their logbooks up to date, but at the end of the project they were rescued by Jackie, who had kept detailed notes about what everyone had been doing. They also missed Jamie because he had very good computer skills but they managed to get everything done with guidance from their tutor and help from the technicians in the college.
They made three copies of their information pack for the college library, and put the information on the college intranet, where staff and students could view it.
After they had finished, they realised they had missed out the facilities belonging to a big employer in the neighbourhood. They were really annoyed with themselves, and added this information in later as they didn't want their pack to be incomplete.
