Guidelines for creating a poster and executive summary of your curriculum project

POSTER

Posters must be at most 6 feet wide and 4 feet high and must be able to stand up on a table (tri-fold boards are highly recommended).  You will also have some room on a table to display any textbooks or hands-on materials. Each group should plan on standing by their poster and discussing results with "visitors" for about 1 hour. The details of this will be coordinated later.

A poster is a creative way to display scientific information that uses text, graphs, tables, charts and pictures to present the highlights of a project. It should be designed to (1) catch the viewer's attention, (2) quickly acquaint the viewer with the basics of your project and (3) make the viewer want to stop, talk with you, and learn more!

• Have a Title for your Poster and display it at the top, along with group member names.
• Decide what your Main Point is and display it prominently. Then provide evidence to support your findings..
• Do not use all capital letters for text. It is harder to read than upper and lower case. Use Large Fonts.
• Remember that you are telling a story, but be brief and to the point (bulleted lists are ok).
• Use graphics (charts, tables, pictures) that are illustrative, colorful, and can be understood in a minute or less.
• Sometimes it helps to utilize arrows to direct attention to the sequence of the presentation. (See http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/sociology/resources/poster_files/posters_samples.html for some ideas on poster arrangements)

There will be a rubric developed later for scoring your poster and presentation.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Length: 5 pages Double-spaced text MAX + references in APA style, and Cover Sheet, if you so desire)

You need to have 40 copies of your Executive Summary available to hand out at the poster session. In addition, an electronic version will be submitted via Wolfware.

Following is a list of elements for the Executive Summary. 

1. Purpose and scope of project (e.g., What are you investigating and why?) 20%

2. Methods used in project (e.g., what was your framework? What exactly did you do to carry out your analysis?) 20%

3. Results (e.g., What did you find out regarding curriculum?)  30%

4. Conclusion & Recommendations (e.g., What have you learned? How do the results connect to material learned in class? You can make an evidence-based recommendation about the curriculum if you so desire.) 20%

5. References (in APA style. Must have at least 5 references, with at least 3 being outside of class readings) 10%