4 Progress Check
As we said in the Main Project section, the Project Progress Check is an opportunity to get feedback on your project work well before the Main Project submission deadline. It covers the first 20 slides and is entirely optional.
While optional, we think it is important enough to award up to 5 bonus points. If you failed on the Pre-project check, think of these bonus points as a way to get those 5 points back. The bonus points are just a nudge – the primary value is in the feedback you will get to ensure the successful completion of the entire project. Suffice it to say, students who participate in the progress check do way better on the final project than those who don’t.
4.1 What we check
The progress check covers the first 20 slides, reviewing your overall deck format and this specific content:
| Slide | Title | What we check |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Title slide | Your name filled in (and overall formatting is correct) |
| 2 | Academic Honesty Statement | Your name on the Signature line |
| 11 | Distribution of earnings by gender | Figure 1 is visible, completed, and correct |
| 14 | Wages and hours differences | Table 1 is visible, completed, and correct |
| 17 | Career log wage profiles | Figure 2 is visible, completed, and correct |
| 19 | Evolution of the gender wage gap | Table 2 is visible, completed, and correct |
The slide numbers above match the canonical 35-slide layout documented in the Final Project reference in the Submission chapter. Your deck must be 35 slides total even if many of the content slides are still placeholders.
We do not check your text responses or any content beyond slide 20.
4.2 How we score it
There are three possible outcomes for the progress check:
| Result | Score | Criteria |
|---|---|---|
| Full credit | 5 bonus points | Fully format compliant and zero errors in the content check. |
| Partial credit | 3 bonus points | Fully format compliant but non-zero errors in the content check. |
| No credit | 0 bonus points | Not fully format compliant. |
A necessary condition for your progress check submission to earn any credit is to be fully format compliant. Any formatting error will result in a score of 0.
4.3 What happens next
When you are ready, submit your progress check deliverable to Gradescope following the same save-as-PDF workflow as spelled out in Submission for the Pre-project Exercise and Main Project.
Then get back to work on the Main Project.