Report

Report Guidelines

Your personal project report demonstrates your engagement with your personal project by summarizing the experiences and skills recorded throughout the three stages of the project.

The report should be presented in identifiable sections following the MYP project objectives:

  • Planning

  • Applying Skills

  • Reflecting

Within your report, you will provide evidence to support your writing such as charts, timelines, or other visuals. Remember, all visuals must be readable at the size you insert them in your text.

Planning (Objective A): Students present what they did in their project.

Students:

• state a learning goal for the project and explain how a personal interest led to that goal

• state an intended product and develop appropriate success criteria for the product

• present a clear, detailed plan for achieving the product and its associated success criteria.

Examples of supporting evidence could include:

  • a list and/or diagram of interests and related learning goals

  • a list of possible strategies to achieve personal and academic goals

  • a diagram showing the connections between the learning goal and the product

  • a series of steps leading to the completion of the product


Applying Skills (Objective B): Students show how ATL skills contributed to the learning goal and product

Students:

  • explain how the ATL skill(s) was/were applied to help

  • achieve their learning goal

  • explain how the ATL skill(s) was/were applied to help achieve their product

  • support the explanations with detailed examples or evidence.



Examples of supporting evidence could include:

  • a series of inquiry questions (research skills)

  • sample correspondence with the project supervisor (communication skills)

  • screenshot of daily reminders or alerts to complete personal project tasks (self-management skills)

  • reflection about resolving a conflict (social skills)

  • summary of prior learning that is relevant to the project (thinking skills)

Reflecting (Objective C): Students report on why they did their project

Students:

  • explain the impact of the project on themselves or their learning

  • evaluate the product based on the success criteria

  • support their comments with specific evidence or detailed

examples.




Examples of supporting evidence could include:

  • evaluation of the product against the success criteria

  • images showing key features of the product

  • analysis of the causes for success and/or failure

  • summary of new knowledge or insights related to the learning goal.

Report Formatting

Formatting:

  • 11-12 point font

  • double spaced

  • Times New Roman, Cambria, or Arial font

  • Margins: 1 inch

  • Single-sided

Your report can be up to 15 pages in length.

  • If you include video/audio (30 sec-1 min) of your product/outcome, your report can be up to 14 pages in length.

  • You will include a bibliography in your report but it does not count toward your page limit.

  • Do not include a title or cover page. If you do, it will count toward your page limit.

MLA Format & Bibliography:

You must include a bibliography, which is an alphabetic list of every source you used to research the project. You should follow MLA format used in your English courses. If you need help or support, you can use: OWL Purdue: MLA