Supervisor Responsibilities

• ensuring the chosen MYP project topic satisfies appropriate legal and ethical standards with regard to health and safety, confidentiality, human rights, animal welfare and environmental issues

• giving guidelines about the MYP project

• providing a timetable with deadlines

• providing the assessment criteria for the project

• giving advice on how to keep and curate evidence of the process

• emphasizing the importance of personal analysis and reflection

• providing formative feedback

• ensuring requirements for academic integrity are met

• confirming the authenticity of the work submitted

• assessing the MYP project using the criteria in this guide

• participating in the standardization of the assessment process

• providing personal project teacher assessed totals to the MYP coordinator to enter in the International Baccalaureate Information System (IBIS).

Personal project coordinator responsibilities

Project coordinators are responsible for organizing the systems that supervisors and students need for the successful completion of the project, with the support and collaboration of the MYP coordinator and school leadership team.

Time spent and Academic Honesty

Time frames for completing the project

Students are expected to spend approximately 25 hours on their personal project. This time includes: 

• meeting with supervisors

• independent learning through research, planning, development and completion of the product/outcome

• reporting of the project

Academic honesty

Students and their supervisors must use the academic honesty tab and final generated form to note their meeting dates and the main points discussed and to declare the academic honesty of work.

Only three meeting dates need to be entered; in most cases, meetings selected for entry are at the start of the project, in the middle of the project and at the completion of the project. The final declaration must be signed by the student and the supervisor on submission of the final report or presentation.

Supervisor Requirements for Formative Feedback

You are required to return only one(1) round of formative feedback to the student.

The three purposes of feedback are:

1. to notify the student of missing criterion strands or components

2. to identify how the report may be improved strand by strand

3. for the supervisor to understand the assessment criterion

Samples of final supervisor marks and comments

“As the quality of the reports themselves varied, so did the schools’ comments that provided understanding of their decision-making processes during assessment. Those schools who matched specific attainment in the work with the differentiated expectations in the task specific clarification in supporting their decision making by strand were often marking at, or close to, the global standard. On the other hand, some schools’ comments were very general, or subjective, or merely copied the statements from the task specific clarification.”          

-  IBO May 2018 subject reports, Personal project