Your personal project must include a report.

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Your report demonstrates your learning throughout your project. Your personal project report should "summarize the experiences and skills recorded in the process journal". Reflection and self-evaluation are a key component of your process journal and should be reflected in your project report. 

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The report should follow the structure of the project objectives—investigating, planning, taking action and reflecting. It must also include evidence for all the strands of all criteria.

 

The report does not replace the product/outcome of the personal project. If the product/outcome of a personal project is in written form, such as an essay or novel, this is considered as distinct from the project report.

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Length of Report

The Personal Project report must be a minimum of 1,500 words and a maximum of 3,500 words, not including contents page, appendices and bibliography.

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Structure of the Personal Project Report

The report must include:

1. Title Page

2. Table of Contents

3. Body of the Report

4. Works Cited List

5. Appendices

 

Title Page must include:

• Student name

• Title of the project

• Length (word count)

• School name

• Year 

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Body of the Report must include:

Criterion A: Investigating

  i.   Define a clear goal & a global context for the project, based on personal interests

  ii.  Identify prior learning and subject specific knowledge relevant to the project

  iii. Demonstrate research skills

 

Criterion B: Planning

  i.   Develop criteria for the product/outcome

  ii.  Plan and record the development process of the project

  iii. Demonstrate self-management skills

 

Criterion C: Taking Action

  i.   Create a product or outcome in response to the goal, global context & criteria

  ii.  Demonstrate thinking skills

  iii. Demonstrate communication & social skills

 

Criterion D: Reflection

  i.   Evaluate the quality of the product/success of the outcome against the success criteria

  ii.  Reflect on how completing the personal project has extended their knowledge of the          topic and global context

  iii. Reflect on their development as an IB learner through the project

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Works Cited List must be presented in MLA 8 format.

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Process Journal Extracts

You need to select a maximum of 10 process journal extracts which do not exceed 10 pages in total. They should be carefully selected, showing evidence demonstrating development in all strands of each criteria. 

 

These extracts are submitted as appendices to the report, should be numbered 1 through 10, and MUST referenced in your report as evidence of your learning.

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Selecting process journal extracts

You should select extracts that demonstrate how you have addressed each of the objectives, or annotate extracts to highlight this information. An extract may include:

• visual thinking diagrams

• annotated research/bibliography

• bulleted lists

• self & peer assessment feedback

• charts

• pictures, photographs, sketches

• short paragraphs

• notes

• screenshots of a blog or website

• timelines, action plans

• annotated illustrations

• artifacts from visits to museums, performances, galleries

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