Interview Project Manual
9. Phase 4 – Self-reflection
Student’s name: ____________________________
Self-reflection
💡 Description: Describe your project experience in detail, including what happened and your
expectations of what would happen next.
**Helpful questions:
What happened? When and where did it happen?
What did you (and the other people) do?
What did you want to happen?
💡 Feelings and thoughts: Describe your feelings and/or thoughts during the project. Then, state how
they might have impacted the experience.
**Helpful questions:
What were you feeling before, during, and after the project?
What do you think other people were feeling about the project? What about now?
What were you thinking during the project? What about now?
💡 Evaluation: Describe something that worked and did not work in the project.
**Helpful questions:
What was good and bad about the project?
What went well? What didn’t go so well?
What did you and other people contribute to the project (positively or negatively)?
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💡 Analysis: Explain why the project happened in the way you have just described. There is no right or
wrong analysis - just your own analysis.
**Helpful questions:
Why did things go well?
Why didn’t they go well?
Now that you are looking back at the experience. Why do you think things happened the way they did?
💡 Conclusion: Summarize what you have learned from the project, how you have learned about it/them,
and what you would do differently in the future.
**Helpful questions:
What did I learn from this project?
How did I learn about it/them?
What else could I have done?
💡Action plan: Describe a plan for how you would work on a similar project in the future or general
changes you might find appropriate.
**Helpful questions:
What would I do differently in a similar project in the future?
What skills do I need to develop for me to handle a project like this better?
How will I develop those skills?
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