| A | B |
| allowable items | items that can be used during your DECA project presentation |
| Academic Integrity | a standard of creating one’s own work while giving credit to other author’s work that is used |
| proposed campaign | Goals and objectives, marketing activities, priority and rationale, and how to evaluate |
| research methods | The ways to find out information about company and customers |
| findings | What problems were found, alternatives, and impact of alternative suggestions |
| Statement of Assurances | form that must be signed by participant(student) and chapter advisor that indicates all work in written project was original |
| oral presentation evaluation form | evaluation for the oral presentation part of the written project and includes some of the outline, responses to questions, and overall performance |
| written entry checklist | a form that is included in a written project that includes not only a list of what should be in the project, but also what shouldn’t and the number of penalty points if something is done incorrectly |
| feedback | information about reactions to a product, a person's performance of a task, etc., used as a basis for improvement. |
| Implementation | actually putting the plan into action |