Self-Evaluation Report on Digital Portfolio for Vegan Baking Product Design

This evaluation report focuses on the strengths and weaknesses, obstacles faced and primary and secondary research conducted during the development of a digital portfolio on vegan baking product design. The report concludes that self-evaluation is important for self-improvement.

Final Major Project
Resource
DIGITAL
PORTFOLIO
TEMPLATE
(Evaluation Report)
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
What were your strengths and weaknesses?...........................................................................3
Did you encounter obstacles and if so, what did you do to overcome these?........................5
Did you conduct strong primary / secondary research?.........................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERNECS...................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Self-evaluation is an important method of self-improvement. The focus of this evaluation
report is on the digital portfolio developed on the vegan baking product design. This evaluation
report focuses on three questions which are identification of strengths and weaknesses,
identification and overcoming obstacles, conducting primary and secondary research during the
development of digital portfolio.
MAIN BODY
What were your strengths and weaknesses?
Strengths Weaknesses
 Creative Thinking: Development of
new ideas requires high level of
creative thinking so that problems
encountered during the project can
be eliminated. I believe that I was
able to effectively apply my creative
thinking skills to identify unique
ways in which my business design
project should be developed so that
it is not only is profitable and
practical but also sustainable. I made
up a suitable business design project
with clear USP, marketing mix and
consumer persona because of my
creative thinking skills helped me
come up with original ideas for each
of these elements.
 Primary Research: Research which
involves investigating raw data from
first and respondents is referred to as
primary research (Haleem, and et.
 Presentation Skills: It is considered that
higher education students need to have
presentation skills as an essential part of
their overall study skills because it helps
them develop attention catching
presentations (Zanders Zanders and
MacLeod, 2018). From the observation of
my presentation skills I have understood
that I am not able to completely utilise all
the tools available to me to presentation
software such as Microsoft PowerPoint
presentation because of my low
knowledge on how to apply and use each
of the tool when building my presentation
and doing tasks such as selection of
suitable images fonts or presentation
designs I faced difficulty when creating
my presentation as often time I was
confused with application of several tools
to improve the visual element of my
presentation and make it more appealing
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al., 2020). I believe that a major
strength of my digital portfolio was
its primary research as the multiple
choice questionnaire covered all the
areas related to the topic of the
portfolio and I was able to collect
raw data from friends and family to
further my research. I believe that I
have strength when it comes to
conducting primary research because
I am able to come up with easy to
understand questions quickly and
complete various parts of the
research methodology in an effective
manner to ensure that the research is
conducted in an ethical way. I
believe that my questionnaire data
collection and data storage helped
me skin information related to the
subject and use it for improving my
overall digital portfolio.
to the target audience.
 Time management skills: When
completing projects related to original
design development it is important to
ensure that timeline and time schedules are
maintained strictly so that every task is
completed before the deadline and the
final project does not lower in quality
because of ineffective time management.
The concept of time management focuses
on utilising daily hours in a way which
supports completion of important and
significant activities with full
concentration to get high quality results
while also completing other non-
professional commitments without any
stress (JANE NGOZI and et. al., 2018).
From evaluating my experience while
creating the digital portfolio I have learned
that I was not able to management time in
a suitable manner. Specifically because I
was not able to determine the best ways
through which I am able to develop
suitable presentation and complete my
secondary research. This resulted in a lot
of my time being wasted as I was not able
to ensure that each of my activity is
completed within my predetermined
timelines. It also increased my stress
levels as I was not able to focus on my
other activities because of my presentation
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building and secondary research being
delayed by a lot of time.
Did you encounter obstacles and if so, what did you do to overcome these?
The primary challenge I faced while completing the digital portfolio was my lack of
knowledge about presentation and PowerPoint presentation tools. I had constructed basic
academic presentations previously but did not have any idea about ways to improve the creative
aspects of the presentation and how to apply different tools so that I am able to utilise my
creative thinking in making my presentation more appealing and related to the theme. Power
point presentation is a strictly visual medium (Van Emden and Becker, 2017). In order to
overcome this challenge I looked up online tutorials so that I can understand the various ways in
which tools of presentation and PowerPoint presentation such as shapes and image shapes can be
applied to make the visual elements of the PowerPoint presentation more appealing. This helped
me overcome the challenge of building a PowerPoint presentation but I still feel that there can be
improvements in making the PowerPoint presentation more appealing because it did not look as
professional as it could have been and easy to understand.
In addition to this I also faced the challenge of conducting secondary research in an
effective manner because I was not able to find accurate online articles surrounding development
of a sustainable and vegan baking food products. In order to overcome this challenge I realised
the CRAAP tool which supported me in identifying the credibility authenticity and reliability of
various online articles so that I am able to complete my secondary research in an effective
manner (Esparrago-Kalidas, 2021). CRAAP tool is short form of Currency, Relevance,
Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose. I still believe improvements can be made in case of my
secondary research because I was not able to fully overcome the challenge as I wasted much of
my time finding suitable online articles for completing the secondary research and was not able
to direct my focus towards other parts of the presentation such as its visual presentation.
Did you conduct strong primary / secondary research?
I completed both primary as well as secondary research for building my digital portfolio.
Primary research involves usage of direct raw data from respondents while secondary research
involves usage of existing information (Mohajan, 2018). The usage of both primary and
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secondary research help me enhance my overall data collection as I was able to make sure that
accurate data is included for completion of the final design outcome.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that evaluating on past performance is an essential part of
completing action to improve upon areas of weakness. Any valuation report helps individuals
identify a suitable method through which they are able to improve their performance on past
academic or professional projects. Any evaluation report involves identification of strengths and
weaknesses of individuals so that they are able to make improvements on their weak areas and
understand how to better apply their strengths in the future to get better quality results.
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REFERNECS
Books and Journals
Esparrago-Kalidas, A. J., 2021. The Effectiveness of CRAAP Test in Evaluating Credibility of
Sources. International Journal of TESOL & Education, 1(2). pp.1-14.
Haleem, and et. al., 2020. Areas of academic research with the impact of COVID-19. The
American journal of emergency medicine, 38(7). pp.1524-1526.
JANE NGOZI and et. al., 2018. PRINCIPAL'S TIME MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN
SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KANO STATE. Journal of Education in Developing
Areas, 26(1). pp.267-278.
Mohajan, H. K., 2018. Qualitative research methodology in social sciences and related
subjects. Journal of Economic Development, Environment and People, 7(1). pp.23-48.
Van Emden, J. and Becker, L., 2017. Presentation skills for students. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Zanders, E.D., Zanders, E. and MacLeod, L., 2018. Presentation skills for scientists: a practical
guide. Cambridge University Press.
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