MYP Personal Project: Product Success Criteria

• You are required to develop success criteria for the product/outcome.
• You must define high quality and realistic criteria to measure the quality of your final outcome or product.
• The criteria assesses how well your product/outcome allows you to reach your goal.
• These criteria might outline what your product/outcome looks like, should do or achieve, how it should function, what parts or components it needs, or what it should be made from.
• The most important things about the criteria are that they are:

  • Observable

  • Objective

  • Specific

  • Suitably challenging

  • Measurable

• You must reference your criteria when documenting your progress in the process journal and use them to assess the final outcome or product.
• The criteria should be defined after you have spent some time researching and should only be determined once you have a clear understanding of what you want to achieve and the proposed product/outcome of the project.
• Look at the criteria list below for ideas about how to design your criteria. These are only suggestions. You should include only those criteria that fit your specific product/outcome; each student’s work will be different! These criteria should be included in your process journal and you should use them to assess your final product/outcome.
• Usually, you will not be able to define the criteria until you have spent some time researching the goal, and the criteria should only be determined once you have a clear understanding of what you want to achieve and the proposed product/outcome.
• We recommend having at least THREE to FIVE specifications / aspects in your rubric.

In your process journal: ask yourself different questions in order to define the specifications. The questions you ask will depend on the type of outcome or product you are creating. Write down - in bulleted form- your answers to the prompts below (focus on the ones that relate to the product you are making) to help you get started with thinking about how you will develop your assessment criteria.

• Who is my target audience?

• What is the purpose of my product?

• How will I know that my message has been delivered?

• What impact do I want my product to have?

• What will my product look like? (size, style, color, shape, texture, pattern, layout etc.)

• How will I know that I have successfully transferred the knowledge and skills I have acquired through research and collaboration to my product / outcome?

• What will it cost to produce my product? What is my budget?

• What type of materials will I use?

• What techniques / approaches will I use?

• What type of information will I include?

• How will I present the information?

• Will I include visuals?

• Do I need to consider any copyright or intellectual property issues?

• How will I get feedback about the success of my product/outcome?