The project is challenging and has a focus on students improving their higher-order thinking skills. Doing a project. The project helps students increase their knowledge and skill in undertaking a challenging project that requires sustained effort over a considerable period of time. Often a team of students works on a project. Students learn to take individual and collective responsibility for the team's successful completion of the project.
Students learn from each other.
Information and Communications Technology. Students increase their knowledge and skill in making use of Information and Communications Technology to carry out the work in a project. A project may include a specific goal of students acquiring new knowledge and skills in Information and Communications Technology. Self and peer assessment. Students gain skill in assessing themselves and being accountable for their own work and performance.