Academic Research Booklet

Reflection Reflecting on your work and progress is a key element of many of your courses and is a very good life skill to have – and one you will very likely need for future careers. In Sixth Form at Teddies in the EE you will have three formal reflections meetings and conclude the porject by writing a 500-word relfection. In the EPQ you will write a project log throughout the project and an evaluation at the end, both need to be reflective. In both the EE and the EPQ your ability to write reflectively will impact your marks.

When reflecting on your work and progress you should aim to do the following:

Make every sentence specific and meaningful. Simply saying you enjoyed or disliked something is not enough: you must evaluate your experiences.

Evaluating your experiences means assessing the value of what you've learnt and being self-critical. It is not enough to simply describe your experiences, you must demonstrate you've learnt skills and made deliberate choices. You might also consider how doing this piece of work has helped/ will help you in other subjects or at university for example. YOU MUST state not only what you have learnt about yourself but what you would do differently next time if you did this process again. Consider you limitations and your areas of growth. BE POSITIVE. Even if you had a stressful or negative experience, use it to demonstrate how it made you think, grow or develop in some way. To the examiner, moaning - however valid you feel it is - will only come across as an inability to reflect and adapt.

DO NOT describe a blow-by-blow account of your progress, instead you need to evaluate specific actions you have taken.