Dear Ethan The idea of the new IA proposal is hopefully to move students away from the typical experiments of the old IA and get them to really propose something that interests them. Their proposed practical solution, say for the problems of...
Internal Assessment (teacher)Dear Ranjani The most obvious way to make a link between the background reading and the student's investigation would be just to say something like "The findings of both of these studies generated ideas for investigation: while Daniel and Woody...
Sample experiment 1Hi John, My student used this study to respond to 'Outline norms with reference to one relevant study' in our recent mock exam. All the rest of my students used enculturation studies or cultural dimensions studies, so this one kind of threw...
Rogers & Frantz (1961)Hello John, I understand that the IB is looking for the students to have a practical or policy angle on their investigation. I take note of this bit of the criteria: The real-life problem is described and the impact...
Internal Assessment (teacher)Hey Laura, thanks for the prompt reply. However I still am not clear how the "link" could be obvious. Could you perhaps give an example, using the above study, what kind of a link would be expected or what would fetch the top mark?
Sample experiment 1Hi John, Can a student refer to a pre-existing scale or inventory as a data collection tool, forming part of their interview schedule (e.g. the Hamilton Anxiety rating scale)? If so, can they simply state they would use questions from...
Internal Assessment (teacher)Dear Ashli Yes, it must be explicitly linked to the source that they are evaluating. A generic evaluation without those links would not earn high marks.
Tips: Paper 2BDear Reena, Yes, that would be appropriate for a cogntiive model question.
Paper 1: Section ADear Lee, You are probably correct that they wouldn't ask something specifically about mindset, but they have given us very little guidance. They could give something on, for example, technoference for technology even though it is not...
Motivation: Mindset
Laura
Site authorDear Camilla The student has to develop their own data collection tool, and it should not just be a rewording of a current published scale. They should reference the scale, and say it informed their tool, but rewriting the HRS questions in their...
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