Assessment
SL Multiple Choice Questions by topic
This section contains multiple choice tests on all the main topics on the SL/HL syllabus content covered by all SL students. There are no questions on the AHL content. Each test contains 20 questions....
Teaching, learning & resources
Approaches to learning
As well as reflecting on how you teach it is equally important to consider how your students learn. This section provides information on how to build up your students' learning skills to encourage them...
Experimental programme & IA
Using secondary data for the IA
The number of students basing their Scientific Investigation on secondary data rather than doing their own 'Hands-on' practical work to provide the data has increased considerably due to the world-wide...
Experimental programme & IA
Check list for the IA report
Get your students to go through this checklist carefully to ensure that their IA report contains all the required elements before they hand their final version in. This check list is available directly...
Experimental programme & IA
Writing the report
The importance of students seeing examples of good IA reports written for previous sessions before writing their own is stressed. The formal requirements of the report are listed and advice given as to...
Experimental programme & IA
Evaluation
This criterion addresses the extent to which the report provides evidence of evaluation of the methodology used for the investigation. It considers the weaknesses and limitations of the methodology set...
Experimental programme & IA
Conclusion
This assessment criterion covers the extent to which the student successfully answers their research question with regard to their analysis and the accepted scientific context. To score the maximum of...
Experimental programme & IA
Data analysis
Data analysis assesses the extent to which the report provides evidence that the student has recorded, processed and presented the data in ways that are relevant to the research question. Before they...
Experimental programme & IA
Research design
Research design refers to the extent to which the student effectively communicates the methodology (purpose and practice) used to address the research question. It covers the establishment of a clear...
Delivering the programme
Using logarithms
Since all IB Diploma students study mathematics this page should not be necessary, but most chemistry teachers find that they need to give their students help with using logarithms. This page explains...