Process Journal

Documenting the process

The process journal is a generic term used to refer to the record of progress maintained by the student throughout the community project. However, the media for documenting the process can vary depending on student preferences.

The process journal is personal to the student, in the sense that he or she is also exploring ways of recording his or her process. Students are not restricted to any single model of recording their process journals. However, the student is responsible, through their use of the process journal, for producing evidence of addressing the four objectives A to D to demonstrate achievement at the highest levels of the criteria.

Selecting process journal extracts

For the MYP community project, students should carefully select evidence from their process journals to demonstrate development in all criteria. These extracts are submitted as appendices of the presentation at he conclusion of the community project. The student should take responsibility for making the appropriate extracts available to the supervisor.

Students working individually should select a maximum of 10 individual extracts to represent the key developments of the community project. Students choosing to work in groups will submit a maximum of 15 process journal extracts. The student should select extracts that demonstrate how they have addressed each of the objectives or annotate extracts to highlight this information.

An extract may include:

• visual thinking diagrams

• bulleted lists

•  charts

• short paragraphs

• notes

• timelines, action plans

• annotated illustrations

• annotated research

• artifacts from inspirational visits to museums, performances, galleries

• pictures, photographs, sketches

• up to 30 seconds of visual or audio material

• screenshots of a blog or website

• self- and peer-assessment feedback.

Materials directly relevant to the achievement of the project should also be included in the extracts, as appropriate. For example, if the student has produced a questionnaire or survey that has been described and analysed in the report, he or she could include a segment of that completed survey.

An individual extract may include any of the formats that the student used to document the process.

Extracts should simply be supporting evidence of the process and will not be individually assessed