Selecting Abstracts for the report

Selecting Extracts:

The process journal is an essential source of evidence for development for every stage of the personal project and for every criterion.

Typical excerpts that students select may include the following:

Criterion strand	Evidence	Some example entries
A(i) defining goal	What is to be achieved or accomplished	Brainstorms, iterative or annotated versions of the goal
A(ii) prior learning	School-based and independent personal learning that is relevant to the project and global context	Textbook excerpts, formula sheets, notes, summaries or documents from other projects, qualifications
A(iii) research skills	Investigating, building background knowledge, gathering data	Search strategies, notes from reading, interview protocols, OPVL evaluations, analysis of existing products/solutions, data collection and analysis, resource summaries
B(i) criteria for success	Creation of meaningfully challenging criteria	Research into aspects of quality for the product/outcome, annotated models
B(ii) plan and record of the development process	Planning, execution and necessary adjustments to the original plan	To-do lists, schedules, planning tables, Gantt chart, work breakdown calendar, benchmark data, progress notes
B(iii) self-management skills	Persistence and managing failure	First attempts, flops, partial successes, practice logs/notes
C(ii) thinking skills	Critical and creative thinking	Troubleshooting, problem analysis, evaluation of multiple possible solutions, explorations of multiple perspectives, guesses/predictions, careful observations, concept maps, visual thinking strategies
C(iii) communication skills	Interacting with others and using language to gather and communicate information	Reading notes, feedback and actions taken in response, graphic organizers, communication plans, letters/emails/multi-modal texts developed to support or share the project
C(iii) social skills	Collaboration	Reflections on interactions with supervisor, peer feedback, social media interactions, records of negotiation, leadership, active listening, conflict resolution or self-advocacy
D(i) quality of product/outcome	Performance against criteria for success	Sketches, images, interviews, rubrics and notes/justifications, scoring sheets, performance data, audience reviews