Dear Sarah Your approach is correct. For example, a student who discusses the importance of informed consent from parents of young children before any child is observed and points out that in this particular extract it does not say if parents...
Exam prepDear Renata Examples of topics are usually more focused than just "technology". Something like the effects of technology on learning, or the use of technology in school, the influence of stress on performance (either academic or physical, or...
Practical: Choosing topicsDear Katharina SL students answer P1 and P2 and write an IA proposal, so they only need to know the most basic of descriptive statistics, maybe to answer a Paper 1C or Paper 2B question. Your suggestion of knowing mean, median and mode is fine....
Interpreting data: Descriptive statisticswouldn't descriptive statistics also be on the SL version? at least understanding of mean, median, mode and/or normal curve necessary for understanding the statistical analysis you have in the next section that isn't labelled HL only?
Interpreting data: Descriptive statisticsThank you so much for the clarification. I have found the IB's use of context, content, and concepts, although catchy and illiterative somewhat problematic when trying to describe work for the course, as this is a great example where content isn't...
8. AssessmentDear John, I have two questions regarding the practicals in relation to Paper 2. First, what exactly is meant by "the same topic"? (P2 A Q4). The examples above list 4 research methods for the same topic- within the same context....
Practical: Choosing topicsDear Megan, We do just the material needed for question 1: aim and procedure. They don't really even need the findings, but we document them anyway. The other questions we do later in the course once they have the content knowledge...
Practical: Choosing topicsThanks so much! I saw that you have a practical template for students to use...is this what you have them do in 90 minutes or do they just write the aim, procedure, and findings and then they do the practical template on their own? My plan is to also...
Practical: Choosing topicsDear Ben Providing there are two pieces of relevant background research from academic psychological sources (not sociological or political) then they may do this. I suggest that for most of these questions, they find the background research,...
Choice of research topic
Megan
Got it! Thanks so much for your quick response.
Practical: Choosing topics